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New Books2015-2016
Agnese FabbriGrandi & Associati Literary Agency
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Adriano Salani EditoreVia Gherardini 10 – 20145 Milan Italy
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Salani Editore
FICTION
March 2016Pages: 256One reprint
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LA LUNA E DEI LUPI
GIUSEPPEFESTA
A desperate migration through the Apennines in the search ofsafety
Rio is the alpha male of a pack of wolves forced into famine. In order tosave his pack he will have to guide them beyond the boundaries of theApennine Reserve, towards new hunting grounds. Lorenzo, a near-grad-uate who is working on research about wolves, together with Greta, ayoung girl destined to sell perfumes but capable of giving up on everythingin the name of adventure, will be there to help him.
Giuseppe Festa creates a new adventure and survival story with simplebut effective writing. He recalls the classic formats used by Jack Londonand Richard Adams, updating them on the basis of the most recentethology studies on packs. Most of the episodes in the book are takenfrom real experiences with wolves.
Taking us to wild and fascinating places, Festa gives life to a touchingstory of solidarity between men and wolves, no longer enemies butbrothers under the same moon.For further reference, see:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zt7GpXIsS8https://www.facebook.com/Parco-Nazionale-dei-Monti-Sibillini-61831404807/timeline/LifeWolf Alps http://www.lifewolfalps.eu/
Giuseppe Festa was born in Milan in 1972. He graduated in NaturalSciences and works in environmental education. He is a passionate mu-sician and the singer and writer in the band Lingalad. He is the protago-nist of the documentary film Oltre la Frontiera (Beyond the Border) andauthor of various nature news reports broadcast by RAI. To date he haspublished the novels Il passaggio dell’orso (The Passage of the Bear, Sal-ani 2013) and L’ombra del gattopardo (The Ocelot Shadow, Salani2014).
Salani EditoreSalani Editore
FICTION
April 2016Pages: 256
LA LADRA DI RICORDI
BARBARABELLOMO
Salani presents a new, sharp female author for a very Italian thril-ler. The first case for Isabella De Clio, archaeologist.
Isabella De Clio is a Sicilian archaeologist specializing in ancient art: she isserious and edgy, honest, cultured and... a kleptomaniac. Disillusionedwith life, and men, she is finishing a scholarship that could get her inthe circuit of the most important museums in the world. Then academiais suddenly shaken by the inexplicable murder of a woman with a darkpast, which has to do with a precious cameo from the Augustan age. It isthis cameo that involves Isabella in the investigation, alongside charmingInspector Caccia, tired of family routine and a huge jazz fan, GiacomoNardi, a widower and depressed professor of museology and culturalheritage, and the nephew of the victim. The cameo triggers a story thatweaves the Rome of I century B.C. with contemporary Italy.
Barbara Bellomo has taught Roman History at the University of Cataniafor many years. Currently she teaches literary subjects in high school.
Salani EditoreSalani Editore
FICTION
March 2016Pages: 336
L’INGANNO DELL’IPPOCASTANO
MARIANOSABATINI
A noir set in a sprawling Rome, where business, crime, politicsand media do not always coexist peacefully, and where no onecan ever be truly safe.
Ascanio Restelli has quite a few enemies: he is a successful businessmanon the verge of running for mayor of Rome. Viola Ornaghi, sent to inter-view him, certainly does not expect to find him dead, with his throat cutand two holes for his eyes. The journalist loses her head: she does notknow who to ask for help. The last number she called was her colleagueLeo Malinverno... without thinking, she presses the button to recall it.Shrewd and ironic, famous for his inconvenient investigations, Malinver-no is perhaps the best person to protect Viola. The journalist joins thepolice in an investigation that reveals an ever more multifaceted criminalplot, in which witnesses turn into protagonists and the innocent pay forthe guilty...A beautiful yet insidious Rome, an unexpected death and two journalistsin search of the truth.
« Keep an eye on Mariano Sabatini’s writing, because it showsthat the Italian noir novel is huge, and is also disturbingly fore-telling ».
Maurizio de Giovanni
Mariano Sabatini, born in Rome in 1971, is a journalist and a writer. Hehas worked for newspapers, magazines and online journals, writingabout current events, culture and entertainment. He has written forTMC and RAI and has worked as a television critic. He has conceivedand presented national and local radio programmes, and is very activeas a commentator on the major Italian TV networks. He has written sev-eral books, but this is his first novel.
Salani EditoreSalani Editore
FICTION
June 2016Pages: 420
IL TESTAMENTODEL CONTE INVERARDI
LUIGIVALLONCINI
LANDI
Over a century of scandals and secrets of the Italian nobility toldthrough the memories of a country doctor
« The clinical and human experience I have gained in over fifty years ofwork is so amazing and exciting that I chose to write this novel, in whichI describe the two worlds with which I came in contact: the aristocrats,and the peasants and staff at their service. Two distinct worlds: the firstare used to living in luxury, with affairs, love, betrayal, illegitimate chil-dren, duels, revenges and reconciliations. The latter – the peasantsand servants – lived in complete dependence on their aristocratic mas-ters, owning huge mansions with hundreds of rooms to keep cleanand vast lands to cultivate. In this novel I have told many stories experi-enced firsthand or that were told to me. What emerged was the frescoof a world that no longer exists, a family saga that perhaps was worthtelling before my generation disappears forever, with the hope that itwill thrill many readers... »
From Downtown Abbey to the noble families of Lombardy: the timelesscharm of aristocracy.
Luigi Valloncini Landi (1929) graduated in Medicine and Surgery in1954 and for half a century has worked as a doctor. After retiring in2004, he devoted himself to writing. Il testamento del conte Inverardiis his first novel.
Salani EditoreSalani Editore
FICTION
July 2016Pages: 400
UNO STUPIDO ERRORE
ELDALANZA
The new novel by the author who has been defined a ‘female Ca-milleri’.
Nicola, Alex and Giulia are three graduates who’ve known each othersince primary school. They’re inseparable. But when Nicola becomes en-gaged to Julia, Alex – who’d always been in love with the girl – literallygoes mad with jealousy. Come back home after a day spent studying,Nicola finds his fiancee dead in his friend’s arms, with scissors stuck inher chest. The two exchange a look: it doesn’t really take much to under-stand what happened. Nicola cleans the handle of the scissors and pullsthem out from the girl’s chest, throwing them away; he convinces Alexto go home, load a washing machine with his bloody clothes and pre-tend to study. Things go as Nicola planned, but the two must find a law-yer to stay out of trouble: the choice falls on a certain Gilardi...
« A perfect script... I would like to see it on the screen, it could bethe next pearl of good TV ».
La Stampa
Elda Lanza is known to the public as the first presenter of Italian televi-sion. She is a journalist, writer and expert in communication. She hasbeen and still is the host of many important television programmes.She is now 92 years old and writes thrillers that are as ironic and elegantas she is. In 2014 she was awarded the title of ‘Commendatore’ of theItalian Republic by President Napolitano.
Salani EditoreSalani Editore
FICTION
September 2015Pages: 270One reprint
SCRITTO SULLA MIA PELLE
PIETROVAGHI
Sometimes it’s the kids who take on the responsibility for theirparents’ vulnerability, at the same time discovering the difficultyand beauty of love.
Moving house and his parents’ divorce upset young Stefano’s very exi-stence. Without any explanation, only his father’s silence and his grand-father’s illness remain.
Elisa lost her mother and also recently moved: the two immediately bondas if they had always been friends.
An unforgettable protagonist with great compassion finds a friendshipthat warms the heart and seems to soften the loneliness from whichescape seemed impossible. A book with an introspective edge, that del-ves into the depths of every teenager, bringing all their conflicts and de-sires to the surface.
«Pietro Vaghi is able to describe the space between the skin andthe heart of an adolescent, revealing that skin and heart arereally the same thing. Especially when you talk about pain and lo-ve».
Alessandro D’Avenia
Pietro Vaghi, thirty-three years old, holds a degree and PhD in Philoso-phy. He is a copywriter for a Communication Agency and also works ineducation and coaching of adolescents. This is his debut novel.
Salani EditoreSalani Editore
NON-FICTION
April 2016Pages: 240
MESSALINA E LA ROMAIMPERIALE DEI SUOI TEMPI
MARISARANIERI
PANETTA
Messalina was only twenty-three years old when she was stabbed by im-perial assassins. For seven years she had been the most envied and ad-mired woman of Rome, since her husband, the fifty-year-old Claudius,had succeeded to Caligula on the imperial throne. At that time, she com-mitted so many crimes and perversions that her name has become sy-nonymous with villainy over the centuries: Messalina was more lasciviousthan Cleopatra, more dissolute than Poppea, more intriguing than Agrip-pina. But do these charges correspond to the truth? Or maybe the dam-natio memoriae to which the Senate condemned her has made it easierto blame her for crimes she did not commit?This book analyses from every angle the transgressions of the bold Em-press, tracing those events through the pages of the ancient historians.The author outlines a portrait of Messalina without prejudice, collectingthe few traces left of her, digging in the background of history.
Marisa Ranieri Panetta lives and works in Rome. Archaeologist, writerand journalist for l’Espresso and Archeo, she has devoted herself forthirty years to divulgating science. Among many awards, she won theMedia Save Art, sponsored by ICCROM-Unesco. Her publications in-clude: Nerone, Il Principe Rosso e Pompei. Vita, storia e arte della cittasepolta, translated into several languages, and recently Le donne di Au-gusto. She has collaborated to organizing the exhibition Nerone, held atthe Colosseum, Foro Romano and Palatino. In 2014 she won the Rhe-gium Julii Prize for fiction with her novel Vesuvius, published by Salaniin 2013.
Salani EditoreSalani Editore
NON-FICTION
May 2016Pages: 250
IO VERGINE, TU PESCI?
GIUSEPPESORGI
The first semi-serious guide to astrology and the love compatibil-ity of zodiac signs
Having to deal with a Virgin is not the same thing as managing a Libra.Getting out of the bed of a Scorpio is not the same as waking up next toan Aquarium. Provided that the Aquarium is still there. And let’s not for-get you. And your motives. Why have you set your eyes on that person?Are you finally trying out a new way to be in a relationship? Or are youre-proposing for the umpteenth time the same, disastrous, amorousschemes as always? This book deals with the subject of astrology analys-ing the ’typical’ love behaviour of the different twelve zodiacal signs andlooking at all the possible combinations, to answer the eternal question:‘What should I do if I’m in love with a...?’
Giuseppe Sorgi, actor and author, was born in 1976 in Palermo, wherehe graduated in Literature. He has lived in Rome since 2006. He debutedas a stage actor in Un problema alla volta, in 1998. He is also a TV authorof great success for RAI and Mediaset.
Salani EditoreSalani Editore
NON-FICTION
February 2016Pages: 2403 reprints in 3 weeks
IL VEGGENTE.IL SEGRETO DELLE TRE FONTANE
SAVERIOGAETA
Nearly sixty years after the apparition, an unprecedented investi-gation into the Tre Fontane prophecy.
The forty-year-old Bruno Cornacchiola was violent, confused about thesense of his life, and had a record of being involved with communismand protestantism. Up until 1947, when he had a vision of the VirginMary in a natural cave near Tre Fontane (Three Fountains) on the out-skirts of Rome, and he converted.
In 2013, Saverio Gaeta chanced upon the archives of the Sacri, an asso-ciation founded by the same prophet, and has been fascinated eversince.
An investigation undertaken through thousands of pages and annota-tions written by Cornacchiola during the course of his life. A skillful re-construction, the first mosiac tile of many visions of Mary, from whichsupernatural messages, mystical visions and prophetic dreams emerge,in front of which no one can remain indifferent.
Saverio Gaeta was born in Naples in 1958. Graduated in Communica-tions, he started his journalistic career at a young age, collaborating withmany newspapers in Naples and Rome. Since 1999 he’s been the mana-ging editor of Famiglia Cristiana. He has published various books, mostrecently with Livio Fanzaga Effetto Bergoglio (Salani, 2014).
Salani EditoreSalani Editore
NON-FICTION
November 2015Pages: 272One reprint
IL VETERINARIO IN TASCA
MAUROCERVIA
andFABIO
BORGANTI
A pocketbook to care for our four-legged friends (and muchmore).
An exhaustive guide that tackles all the details regarding the choices andtreatments we make for dogs, cats and other common pets like rabbits,hamsters and gold fish. Its purpose is to help people who own, or areabout to take responsibility for a pet, warning us about common mis-takes and giving useful advice for a healthy and positive life together. Ac-cording to the authors, the most important rule is not to do any harm,but often it’s hard to do the right thing.
«Mauro Cervia’s career is full of anecdotes, all with a common de-nominator: helping animals».
Corriere della Sera
Mauro Cervia was born in Milan. He has a degree in Veterinary Scienceand, following in his father’s footsteps, he started travelling the world tolearn how to treat animals. Travelling between Lyon and Vancouver hebecame an accomplished Vet. He also wrote Mario, il veterinario dellavecchia Milano (Mario, the Vet of the Old Milan) and Caneterapia(Dog Therapy).
Fabio Borganti is also from Milan, he is one of the most successful vetsin Italy and author of a number of scientific publications.
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