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Black Mountain by Venero Armanno
Category: Fiction
Beginning in the sulphur mines of Sicily over a century ago, when child slavery was rampant, Black Mountain takes you on a journey through time and back again. When a young boy sold into slavery finds the courage to escape his brutal existence, his life is saved by a mysterious stranger, Don Domenico, w ...Show more
Burning Down by Venero Armanno
Category: Fiction
Charlie Smoke is living out his early retirement from the boxing ring as a bricklayer. It is the mid-1970s and he believes his best days are behind him. He has lost his wife and his daughter Sissy to his questionable past. When he meets Holly Banks and her teenage son Ricky, he has the chance to do thin ...Show more
Candle Life by Venero Armanno
Category: Fiction
'When a man can't sleep any mor e, any sleep is a good sleep, and this one turned out to be something like a coma, and filled with you, Yukiko, only you.' An Australian novelist is living in an arts community in Paris, trying to write. He is mourning the death of the love of his life, Kiko. Still drowni ...Show more
Firehead by Venero Armanno
Category: Fiction
When Gabriella comes to Brisbane, she moves in next door to 14-year old Sam with her parents and her ageing Nono, and Sam knows that his life will never be the same again. Then Gabriella disappers. Set in Brisbane's Sicilian community from 1975 to 1995, this is an eerie story of love, corruption, and se ...Show more
My Beautiful Friend by Venero Armanno
Category: Fiction
A dark, brooding and erotic ghost story. Can you imagine what it must be like to take the souls of others? Marcello Mansini has been dead for more than two months, his body lost in the icy depths of Lac Leman. But when Aaron and Rebecca stumble across his gravestone, their hearts full of human despair, ...Show more
My Beautiful Friend by Venero Armanno
Category: Fiction
Marcello Mansini has been dead for more than two months, his body lost in the icy depths of Lac Leman. But when Aaron and Rebecca stumble across his gravestone, their hearts full of human despair, Mansini slips into their lives like the ancient viper he is.
Romeo of the Underworld by Venero Armanno
Category: Fiction
For Romeo Costanzo and the gallery of tempestuous characters he meets in the languid city of Brisbane, barriers of time and family and death barely exist. All that is important is the rage and compassion that may one day lead them to understand the 'river of memory' that twists and turns though their he ...Show more
The Crying Forest by Venero Armanno
Category: Fantasy
Agata Rosso, a once-mighty yet now prematurely aged European witch, believes that the special gifts in a young girl named Lía Munro can restore youth and vitality both to herself and her bedridden husband. She sets a deadly plan in motion to capture and use Lía -- but will the girl have enough power to ...Show more
The Dirty Beat by Venero Armanno
Category: Fiction
Rock and jazz drummer Max is dead. Now, in his coffin as his friends prepare to bury him, Max is surrounded by the ghosts of his life and the dreams that never faded. All the old music is back too - from raw seventies rock-and-roll to the type of cool jazz that made legends of John Coltrane and Miles Da ...Show more
The Volcano by ARMANNO VENERO
Category: Fiction
A fiercely original, beautifully written, multi-layered tour de force of immense power and humanity, THE VOLCANO tells the tumultuous story of Emilio Aquila, a boy driven mad by love for a woman beyond his reach. His passion turns him into an outcast, forced to live away from his village in the labyrint ...Show more