NICKY PELLEGRINO

'This isn't a mid-life crisis OK? For a start I'm not old enough yet to have one of those. I'm calling it a happiness project. I've stolen an entire summer from my life and by the time it's over I plan to leave this place with a list in my hand. The ten things that make me happy, that's all I want to know. How difficult can it be? They may be small things - a perfect cup of coffee, a day without rain - or bigger ones. It's still the beginning so how can I know?' Addolorata Martinelli knows she should be happy. She has everything she thought she wanted - her own business, a husband, a child. So why does she feel as if something is missing? Then when her restaurant, Little Italy, is slated by a reviewer, she realises that she's lost the one thing she thought she could always count on, her love of food. So Addolorata heads to Venice for a summer alone, aiming to find the ten things that make her happy. Once she's found them, she'll construct a new life around her ten things, but will they include her life in London?

Luca Amore runs a cooking school in the Sicilian mountain town of Favio, using the recipes passed down to him by generations of Amore women. As he readies himself for yet another course, he expects it to be much like all the others. He will cook, he will take his clients to visit vineyards and olive groves, they will eat together, become friends, and then, after a fortnight, they will pack up and head home. But there is a surprise in store for Luca. Four women arrive, each one at a turning point in her life. A divorcee, a widow, an exhausted working mum and an unfulfilled top London barrister come together for this idyllic escape into the sun-drenched Sicilian hills, and a tantalising culinary adventure. Sparks fly, friendships are made and secrets and stories are shared - and for each of them - and for Luca - nothing will ever be the same.

A recipe for life should be a simple thing: love and happiness, family, friends and a little food But life is rarely straightforward Alice wants to make the most of life - after all, she knows how fragile it can be - and knows she never feels more alive than when she's cooking Babetta has spent a lifetime tending the garden of her tiny house on the Italian coast, growing food to feed a family now grown and gone...

The Villa Girls is the story of four young women who decide that wherever they are in the world and whatever they're doing they'll meet every few years for a holiday together somewhere sunny Despite life taking them in very different directions, their snatched days in the sun in little hidden villas are crucial to them all...

Escape to Italy with this sumptuous story of secrets and friendships under Mediterranean skies.

Four friends, a sun-drenched escape, and a holiday that will change everything...

Two feuding families, two love stories - and a lot of delicious Italian food.

A wonderfully atmospheric, touching and sumptuous novel about a young widows search for happiness in a small Italian village.

An uplifting and delicious taste of Italy' ERICA JAMESLove happens when you least expect it... Assunta has given up on love. She might run her little trattoria in the most romantic mountain town in Italy, but love just seems to have passed her by.Sarah-Jane is finished with love. She's buying an old convertible and driving around Italy this summer - it's the perfect way to forget all about her hot celebrity ex-boyfriend! But when Sarah-Jane's car breaks down in Montenello, she has to stay longer than she intended! And the trouble is, love is everywhere...

''Lyrical, heartrending and compelling'' JOJO MOYES on Recipe for LifeKat is an adventurer, a food writer who travels the world visiting far-flung places and eating unusual things. Now she is about to embark on her biggest adventure yet - a relationship. She has fallen in love with an Italian man and is moving to live with him in Venice where she will help him run his small guesthouse, Hotel Gondola. Kat has lined up a book deal and will write about the first year of her new adventure, the food she eats, the recipes she collects, the people she meets, the man she doesn''t really know all that well but is going to make a life with. But as Kat ought to know by now, the thing about adventures is that they never go exactly the way you expect them to...

Crónica en clave de ficción de dos generaciones de mujers, a través de sus tradiciones, sus sueños y los aromas de sus cocinas, esta deliciosa novela transcurre al ritmo de la propia vida, con el tiempo detenido del pequeño pueblo de la protagonista, y el tiempo de libertad, esfuerzo y madurez que propician primero Roma, despues Londres. Años mas tarde, Chiara volvera al pueblo de Maria, su madre, y entre chispeantes equivocos, descubrira un nuevo mundo, que es el de sus origenes. Tiene el aliciente de las historias minimas y los grandes temas universales que se esconden tras ellas y condimentada por aromas deliciosos. En la linea de Chocolat o En un lugar en la Toscana, con el elemento de la deliciosa comida italiana como hilo conductor de dos generaciones de mujeres.

La joven Chiara vive en Inglaterra, donde acaba de publicar un exitoso libro de cocina. Pero Chiara anhela conocer sus orígenes, de modo que se traslada al pueblo de su difunta madre, cercano a Nápoles. Alli no solo descubrira un mundo nuevo de sabores y olores. Tambien le espera la secreta y torrida historia de amor y desengaños que la precede.