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Daunt Books Children's Short Story Competition 2013

Florence

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  A Room With a View by E.M. Forster

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  A penetrating social comedy following young Lucy Honeychurch on a trip to Florence. There she awakens unexpected passions that will haunt her throughout her life. Perhaps Forster's finest achievement, displaying a lightness of touch that so many have tried in vain to emulate.

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  A Florentine Death by Michele Giuttari

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  The first, bestselling book by a former Florentine police chief, in which Chief Superintendent Ferrara probes a series of random, brutal deaths across the city. A murky murder mystery which we suggest you pick up only once you've read the superior equivalents of Donna Leon, Andrea Camilleri, Magdalene Nabb and Michael Dibdin.

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  Indian Summer by William Dean Howells

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  Perhaps the finest romantic comedy in American literature, 'Indian Summer' follows newspaper mogul Colville to Florence, where as a young man he once fell hopelessly in love. He soon becomes involved with two women - one his contemporary, one rather younger - and the drama that plays out betweem them is exquisitely rendered, wise and warm.

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  Death of an Englishman by Magdalen Nabb

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  Nabb's Marshal Guarnaccia thrillers are among our favourites of the genre, astutely plotted and redolent with Florentine atmosphere. In this first book he must solve the murder of the wonderfully-named Mr Langley-Smythe, ideally in time to make it home for Christmas.