Il mio angelo segreto by Federica Bosco
My Secret Angel

What happened to Mia after her final act of desperation? In the deep sleep from which she seems unwilling to wake up, she hears the voice of Patrick, though she can’t understand how it’s possible. He speaks to her constantly, like an angel who never abandons her, but Mia can’t see him. She doesn’t want to open her eyes, because she’s afraid she’ll start suffering again. Again it is Patrick who rescues her and brings her back to life. But Mia seems completely transformed: the doctors see her talking to herself, and they try to find an explanation for the strange state she is in. Who is Mia talking to? Thanks to her grandmother, who takes her out of hospital and brings her to Florence, Mia starts to love life again, to go to parties and meet new people. Including a new boy… And finally, with the encouragment of an old Romanian teacher, she starts dancing again. But it’s time for her to return to England, it’s time for clearing things up and taking decisions: what will become of her friendship with Nina? Will she find the courage to present herself at the Royal Ballet School and take the long-awaited entrance test? Another enthralling chapter in the life of Mia, still marooned halfway between reality and dream.

The gripping sequel to Innamorata di un angelo

«With her devastating, subtle irony, Federica Bosco interweaves the real with the surprising and the unexpected. The whole symphony is magisterially arranged.»
Panorama

Federica Bosco. An author and scriptwriter, she lives in Rome. You can read about her in her blog www.federicabosco.com. With Newton Compton she has published six novels and two ‘survival manuals’ for young women. They have proved popular with the public and her writing has been acclaimed by the critics. Her books have been translated in ten countries.

Translation Rights sold to:

Goldmann (Germany)
Algaida (Spain)
Mr ediciones (Spain)
City Editions (France)
Editora Bertrand (Brazil) 
JP Jovan (Serbia)
Evro Giunti (Serbia)
Znanje d.d. (Croatia)
Azbooka (Russia)
Editura Allfa (Romania)
Motyl (Slovak)
Libri Kiadò (Hungary)

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Publication date: October 2011
384 pages
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Le cose che abbiamo in comune sono un milione e 250 by Fabrizio Franceschini
We Have One Million Two Hundred And Fifty Things In Common

Hi, I’m Alex! Let me introduce myself in my own way before anyone else can do it for me: I’m in Copenhagen because I’ve decided to try to get out of doing military service. I may not succeed, but during these months in hiding I’ve experienced playful sex and true love. I’ve learned to smoke marijuana, drink beer and – thanks to the game of chess – live by my wits. My most vivid memory of this time will be Annet, the girl I’ve fallen head over heels in love with, an anorexic who adores animals and the world we live in. Thanks to my culinary abilities, she will recover from the terrible disease that has been stopping her eating. Annet shares her flat with two parrots called Hard and Rock and her friend Brigitte, another passionate environmentalist, who falls in love with men who want to make love without taking her clothes off. During these months in hiding I’ve met some really cool guys: Tom, who put me up in his flat; Preben, who to his misfortune has fallen in love with Rasema, a Turkish girl with a gorgeous figure who has been engaged to be married (to someone else) since the age of five. My family want to bring me back to Italy and have put ‘One-Arm’, a private detective, on my trail. One-Arm has wandered all over Europe looking for me. In the process he has rediscovered himself, his love for painting and his passion for Juliette, a French girl with whom he will stay for the rest of his life. And what is happening now? At the moment, in order to save Preben from a summary execution, Turkish-style, I’m having to play the most important game of chess in my life... Wait and see how it ends!

A young Italian is in Denmark trying to avoid national service, a former member of the special forces is on his trail, and the Turkish community is after him too because of an affront to Islam... It’s not a joke: it’s the story of Alex, ‘One-Arm’ and his
Copenhagen friends!

Fabrizio Franceschini was born in Rome in 1961. He doesn’t believe in horoscopes, but, being born under the sign of sagittarius, is condemned to the collateral effects that afflict all great dreamers. He lives on the outskirts of Rome in a flat which he shares with his wife and his two daughters, Sabina and Fabiola. While he tries to build a literary career he works at the Istituto Poligrafico dello Stato. He likes music, the smell of ink on the pages of books and the sound of the sea in seashells. He wakes up every night at three a.m. for no apparent reason, and combats insomnia by writing novels.

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Publication date: 9 February 2012
224 pages
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Il messaggio segreto delle stelle cadenti by Max Giovagnoli
The Secret Message of Falling Stars

Giuspe is an orphan and suffers from ADHD, which makes him unable to control his impulses. He has lived in a children’s home since he was a baby and his character has been formed on the street, through contact with the violence of some of the toughest districts of Rome. Marzia, one of his classmates, is the only person who knows his secret – what he calls the ‘shell’, an imaginary place where he goes to escape from the world. Aprile is his schoolmaster, a thirty-years-old overwhelmed with debts and with a string of unhappy love affairs behind him. The two become the joint heroes of a single adventure when Giuspe learns that his teacher is going on holiday in Ireland. Determined to go with him, he blackmails him into taking him along. Giuspe doesn’t tell him, but for him the journey has a specific aim: to find his parents, who, he has learned, might be in Ireland. When they get to Ireland the two meet Eirin, the female keeper of an old lighthouse, obsessed with memories of her husband, who died in strange circumstances. She talks to her ghost in a private world of memory and nostalgia. Chapter by chapter, to the background music of Rem, a vibrant world emerges. It is full of characters searching for redemption and peace, who one day, emerging from the hell into which life has plunged them, open their hearts to the fragility, to the truth and to the unpredictability of the emotions.

A boy who is searching for his father, a journey in the company of a master, a female lighthouse keeper who conceals an old secret

Max Giovagnoli, a publishing consultant for some major figures of cinema and television, the author of dramas for the television and the internet, he has a doctorate in Italian literature and is a highschool teacher. He has participated in the Festival delle Letterature in Rome and the Bellonci-Premio Strega Foundation. He writes for the magazines ‘Bookshop’ and ‘Script’ and has published works of non-fiction and novels (Fuoco ci vuole and All’immobilità qualcosa sfugge). Sotto un cielo di stelle cadenti was the basis of the short film ‘Il mare in vena’, which was shown to great acclaim at the Cairo Mediterranean Literary Festival. His essays have been translated in the USA, where he has been described as ‘one of the thirty voices that are changing storytelling in the world media.’

Anagramma
Publication date: February 2012
384 pages
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