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A real challenge for Newton Compton came in 1992, with the publication of the “100 pagine 1000 lire”, slim volumes which sold more than 60.000.000 of copies all over Italy. Newton Compton cultivates a passion for Italian history, traditions and regional legends with volumes on Italian popular culture, gastronomy and legends.

The publisher’s non-fiction books are shared between two main series, “I volti della storia” and “Controcorrente”. In the first one, Newton Compton had great success with Denis Avey’s Auschwitz. Ero il numero 220543 (a disturbing memoir by a British soldier who infiltrated the concentration camp) Sam Pivnik’s L’ultimo sopravvissuto (the true story of a jewish boy who escaped from a nazi camp, Eva Schloss, Sopravvissuta ad Auschwitz (a Story of Heathbreak and Survival by the Stepsister of Anne Frank), Thomas Harding, Il comandante di Auschwitz (The true Story of the German Jew who caught the Kommandant of Auschwitz) and 12 anni schiavo by Solomon Northup which featured the film 12 Years Slave winning an Academy Award in 2014 for Best Picture.

In “Controcorrente”, among journalistic reports which explore the borderlands of the news, investigating particularly sensitive topics, from the world of politics to religious debate and from crime reportage to reconstructions of controversial events, has had a great success La repubblica delle stragi impunite, an essay about the political murders and slaughters in 60s and 70s in Italy, written by Ferdinando Imposimato, a judge and an eyewitness of important processes such as Aldo Moro kidnapping and killing in 1978.

The invaluable illustrated volumes “Grandi Manuali Newton”, ranging from recipes to drawing and from spirituality to scien-ce, have been consistently popular. Just one name for all: Cucinare con la nutella by Paola Balducchi, sold in France, Holland and Portugal.

To meet the needs of its loyal readers, and to provide an increasingly wide range of reading matter, the publishing house also covers foreign and italian fiction in its Anagramma, Vertigo and Nuova Narrativa Newton Collection. Two Newton Compton authors won the Bancarella Prize: Marcello Simoni in 2012 with Il mercante di libri maledetti, a medieval thriller set in Italy, France and Spain, which has already been sold in sixteen countries and Anna Premoli (thanks to our at-tention to self-publishing) in 2013 with Ti prego lasciati odiare. Marcello Simoni has never left the top of the bestseller list since the publication of his new novel, L’Abbazia dei cento delitti.

Alongside established italian and foreign authors such as Federica Bosco, Andrea Frediani, Massimo Lugli, Simon Scarrow, Stuart MacBride, Harry Sidebottom, Karen Swan and Lisa J. Smith, Newton Compton has launched a number of new suc-cessful authors: Franco Matteucci, G.L. Barone, Sara Tessa, Cassandra Rocca, Daniela Farnese, Valeria Luzi, Elisa Gentile, Patrisha Mar and Marzia Bisognin (with her debut, La casa dei sogni sold in a preempt offer to Atria), Jessica Sorensen, Rebecca Donovan and Emma Chase, Kirsty Moseley and A. G. Riddle.The year 2007 saw the launch of the fascinating series “101”: these colourful, youthful, witty guides to “101 things to do at least once in your life” are now one of the publishing house’s greatest successes. At first the series concentrated on unusual guides of particular cities and regions, but more recently it has been also reaching out to history, psychology, health. A second, expanded series, “1001”, was launched in 2009.

Since July 2010 Newton Compton has also been active on the ebook market, and has won a leading position in digital publi-shing, thanks to the numerous classics in its catalogue and its practice of issuing many new books simultaneously in paper and digital formats.

First days of March 2013 have seen the coming out of the most stunning editorial phenomenon of the last 20 years: the new series “Live”. Books at the price of 0,99 euros, classic and contemporary authors and new novels of Italian bestselling au-thors, that have made a real revolution in the market.

As a great independent publisher, Newton Compton has already achieved a resounding success with its books for 9,90 euros, setting a new editorial standard, and now is a leader among Italian publishers with anti-crisis books that bring back people in bookshops.As an immediate result, September 2015 chart has 4 Newton Compton books among the first 15.

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Lavinia’s heart was set on being a teacher, but after her fi nal school exams she lets her parents persuade her to study economics. Now in her fi fth year at the Bocconi, she finds herself involved in an unusual project: an exchange with the computing engineers of the Polytechnic. The aim? To team up with a student she has never met before, just as might happen in a working environment. But Lavinia is has no interest in the project at all. And luckily for her, she is paired with

a certain Sebastiano, who is even less keen on working in tandem than she is. So, when the practical phase begins and her friends start working in pairs, Lavinia fi nds herself on her own. How dare that ridiculous boy – reputedly a computing genius – dump her, and what’s more without any explanation? Lavinia has no choice: she can’t stand him, but if she wants to get her credits at the exam, she’ll have to fi nd a way of convincing him to collaborate... But how?

Anna premoli was born in 1980 in Croatia and lives in Milan, where she graduated in the economics of financial markets at the Bocconi. She has worked at J.P. Morgan and, since 2004, in the private banking department of a private bank. Mathematics has always been her strong point; writing came by chance, as an ‘anti-stress method’ du-ring her first pregnancy. Ti prego lasciati odiare stayed at the top of the bestseller lists for months and won the 2013 Bancarella Prize; the film rights have been bou-ght by Colorado Film. With Newton Compton she has also published Come inciampa-re nel principe azzurro, Finché amore non ci separi , tutti i difetti che amo di te and Il giorno perfetto per innamorarsi.

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Since leaving home and family to move to Los Ange-les, Heaven Taylor has had only one desire: to fi nd her way in life and feel fulfi lled, as a woman and as a journalist.But the competition is fi erce and it’s not easy to keep her job on the tabloid newspaper. To do so she will have to get one of the most sought-after scoops: get-ting some surreptitious snaps of the leading fashion model of the moment and her mysterious lover.Determined to succeed, Heaven sets out in pursuit and ends up on a rock in the middle of the sea, spying

on the two lovebirds on a yacht. But a sudden storm takes her by surprise, and just when she

thinks she has the pictures she needs, Heaven falls into the ocean, ruining everything: her equipment, the photographs and her dreams of glory.She’s saved from certain drowning by David Coo-per, who arrives on a white boat like a prince on his charger. Unfortunately he’s not exactly a prince, and Heaven has loathed him since the time, several years ago, when she let him seduce her, only to fi nd out that she’d been the subject of a bet between friends.Shipwrecked together on a desert island, the two have to cope with their forced companionship and the renewed attraction they feel for each other, un-der the infl uence of the untainted beauty of their surroundings...

cassandra rocca is of Sicilian origin and lives in Genoa. In everyday life she works as a child educator, but she devotes the rest of her time to her gre-atest passion – books. Newton Compton publishedthe bestsellin trilogy Tut-ta colpa di New York.

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After years of quarrelling, the great chef Michael Di

Bella has fi nally won the heart of the girl who was his

best friend in childhood. They now live together in

Manhattan and have fi xed the date of their wedding.

But a freak accident wipes out the bride’s memory of

the last ten years of her life, taking

her back to her adolescence. Solving a murder mystery

is diffi cult, but it’s nothing compared to the eff ort of

winning the heart of a stubborn and capricious girl like

Susi Gentile all over again. But when Michael is on the

point of giving up hope, an unexpected event helps to

revive the fl ame that seemed to have been extinguished...

valeria luzi is 30 and lives in Rome. After taking a degree in philosophy, she worked in London, New York and Barcelona to improve her English. On her travels around the world she discovered her true passion – writing. In 2009 she published her first short novel. In 2013 she produced her first full-length novel, ti odio con tutto il cuore, which was published first online and then in book form; it went to the top of the best-seller lists.

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After her traumatic split with Nathan, Bea has led a

solitary life. Freeing herself of the anger that had only

made her suff er, she has sold her house, bought a dog

and found a new job. But she certainly hasn’t forgotten.

Her thoughts wander, but always come back to that

face that she has lost for ever. In order to survive she

has adopted her usual technique of

starting all over again. In this new

phase of her life a meeting with Philippa, an elderly

woman who lives in the same area, stirs something

within her, opening her heart again, making room for

a kind of love she has never known before. But in order

to embrace this other kind of love, the ‘grade A’ kind, as

Nathan used to call it, Bea will have to shake off her old

convictions and let herself be swept away by emotions

she has never felt before...

sara tessa was born in Milan, where she still lives. She spent her life waiting for something to happen, then one day a hurricane swept her away: L’uragano di un batter d’ali, her first, originally self-published novel, was published by Newton Compton in early 2014 and shot to the top of the bestseller lists, where it stayed for over twen-ty weeks. A few months later il silenzio di un batter d’ali was published, and has be-en in the bestseller lists since the day it came out. She has also published the novella tutti i brividi di un batter d’ali, in digital form, and se fossi qui con me questa sera.

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Stella Lucente, 26, lives in a small village near Milan. Having recently ended a long relationship, she spends part of her time in the vintage shop which she runs with her friend Bea, and the rest at home. Bea, quarrelling with her boyfriend, persuades Stella to accompany her to a party in a Milanese club. Stella doesn’t know anyone there, but before she has had time to get bored she is accosted by Giulio, an attractive, forthright man in his forties who immediately makes a play for her. He is from Rome. He tells her that he will soon have to return to Rome but that he would like see her again before he leaves, and he gives her his phone number.

Next day he comes round to the shop and asks her out to dinner. They start seeing each other and soon he tells her that he’s in love with her and asks her to move with him to Rome, where he runs a successful restaurant, Lo Specchio. On her way to Rome, however, Stella meets Alessandro Presta, a well-known actor, who is handsome and very attractive. Although she continues her love aff air with Giulio, she yields to Alessandro’s advances and sleeps with him a couple of times. But she realizes that she is really in love with Giulio when he is injured in a road accident and she fears that she has lost him...

elisa e lori, is the pseudonym of two young writers, Elisa Trodella and Loretta Tarducci. They met in Rome, where they both live, at a dinner with a group of ‘extremely serious’ people, and they started lau-ghing together. Later they realized that they had a lot in common. They became friends, and one day they decided to tell this story.

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Sara is 25 and has recently moved to Basel to work on a

doctorate in cytogenetics in a laboratory. Having recently

broken up with her boyfriend, she is feeling depressed,

shaken and lost. Then she meets Leo and Oscar at the

laboratory, and to her surprise feels strongly attracted

to both of them. Blue-eyed, fair-haired Leo is gentle

and sensitive. Oscar, his best friend, is the opposite:

dark-haired and brown-eyed, and direct to the point of

brusqueness. They make her a proposition – that she

spend four days with them in Barcelona, going along

with anything they suggest. The only condition is that

no relationships are to be formed. But what happens in

Spain perturbs her so much that she fi nds it impossible

keep to their agreement...

Giuli ross, was born in Milan in 1981. After taking a degree in biotechnology she went on to do a doc-torate in immunology. Alongside her scientific research she has always cultivated her passions for music and writing. Torn between scientific rationality and artistic emotionality herself, she has tried to recre-ate this tension in her novel. Ho scelto te was written after she moved to the University of Lausanne, whe-re she currently works as a researcher.

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Antony Barker is a gigolo of statuesque beauty. He is

the offi cial lover of Rachel Norton, a cold, unscrupulous

woman, the managing director of the biggest pharma-

ceutical fi rm in the United States.

But Antony has many other clients who seek his services,

which have become legendary in the jet set and the more

affl uent circles of the Big Apple. He has trysts with men

and women, and with groups too, but never bonds or

falls in love with anyone. He is cold and professional,

his sensuality second only to his determination. Angela

Palmieri, a young Italian woman who has just arrived

in New York to work in Rachel’s marketing offi ce, soon

becomes her boss’s favourite and is reluctantly intro-

duced to a world of luxury, excess and debauchery.

silvia kant Her self-published first novel was a runaway success on the Internet. She is currently wri-

ting the sequel to the red-hot story of Antony.

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nSiLViA KAnt try to love me

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Two years have passed since Jayden fi rst met Selvaggia.

He thinks he’s fi nally found his soulmate. Selvaggia has

overcome her initial doubts and fallen deeply in love

with him. She’s convinced that he’s the right man for

her, the love of her life. But Jayden’s past comes back

to haunt them. When he allows himself to be seduced

by the memory of what he used to be, Selvaggia feels

a sharper pain than she has ever experienced before.

What if Jayden comes to regret throwing away the most

beautiful thing that could have happened to him? So-

metimes lies don’t give you a second chance..

elisa Gentile, was born in Vignola, near Modena. She is 29 and lives in Sicily, where she followed her family and found love. She started writing fan fiction inspired by Twilight, publishing it on her blog. Then a couple of years ago, encouraged by her readers, she de-cided to turn one of the stories into a full-length novel and publish it in digital form. It immediately shot to the top of the bestseller lists in the online stores. Newton Com-pton has previously published non meriti un minuto in più del mio amore, the first volu-me of the ‘lies’ trilogy.

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neLiSA GentiLe i love You Because You’re a liar

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Bianca and Carlo meet for the fi rst time as children,

one summer evening on the seashore, during a village

festival in Calabria. Unfortunately Carlo nearly gets

burnt, but the accident is less serious than it seemed.

Yet the image of the fi re leaves an indelible mark in

the eyes of little Bianca. After that occasion they don’t

meet again, but both treasure the sweet aftertaste of

the looks they exchanged. Many years have passed and

both of them live in Rome; Bianca works as the PA of a

politician, with whom she has had an aff air, which has

now run its course; Carlo is a respected psychotherapist

who does voluntary work and has no important rela-

tionships behind him. It’s his work that brings them

together again, but in a way that seems to recreate the

event that they both experienced as children: a fi re, a

burning house, a man, Carlo, trapped inside. And a

woman, Bianca, who this time really can save him.

isabella spinella was born in Rome in 1980. She works in the field of communications, as director

of brand strategy for Autostrade per l’Italia. She is married and has two daughters. She started writing

short stories and poems at the age of ten and has never stopped. This is her first novel.

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A FIRE, TWO CHILDREN, AN UNEXPECTED LOVE STORY

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Melissa lives in Milan and works as a university re-searcher. One day she buys an iPad at an auction and fi nds that it still contains a lot of fi les belonging to its previous owner. The person in question must have been a keen photographer, with a special taste for romantic landscapes and views of the city and the sea. Fascinated by the pictures, she starts searching on the internet. The search leads to a certain Leon de Rouc. He’s just a name on Facebook, but Melissa can’t resist contacting him.

Riccardo Ferraris, aka Leon de Rouc, lives in Turin. A computer

programmer and amateur photographer, he is in a relationship with a well-known model called Bianca. His life seems idyllic, but in fact is far from it. He hates his job, resents his parents’ expectations and is not in love with Bianca.Melissa and Riccardo begin an online correspondence, which is like a breath of fresh air to Riccardo. Both of them gradually become dependent on this strange rela-tionship, though acutely aware that it’s likely to remain a virtual one. But when real life bursts in on their digital world, they can’t resist revealing their true feelings...

daniela Volontè was born in Como, has a degree in Economics and Business and another in Media Studies, and in between has worked as a clerk. Her dream was to be-come a freelance editor, so as to reconcile work and family life. She writes for plea-sure, but full time… because she spends every free minute of the day doing it. With New-ton Compton she has published the bestseller Buonanotte amore mio.

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After a spell in Paris, Rebecca, aka ‘Coco’, moves to

New York to become the manager of a branch of the

agency she works for. She’s looking forward to her

new job and life in the Big Apple, the city that launched

the legendary Chanel when her career seemed on the

wane. Soon after arriving there, she starts reading a

biography of her heroine. It evokes another age, when

the world was at war, and Chanel may even have been

a spy. Rebecca’s own life has been equally tumultuous,

and shows no sign of becoming any quieter. Étienne,

her rediscovered sweetheart, hasn’t come with her; he

has stayed in France. But what’s an ocean to two people

so deeply in love? That was what they’d both thought,

at any rate. But sometimes distance can magnify mi-

nor misunderstandings, turning them into monstrous

disagreements... Will Coco manage to hold on to the

love of her life?

daniela farnese was born in Naples and lives in Milan and Padua. An events or-

ganizer, she works with communications agencies, cultural organizations, magazines,

radio and TV. Since 2003 she has edited the popular blog www.dottoressadania.it, whe-

re she discusses satire, sex, promiscuity and love. For Newton Compton she has publi-

shed 101 modi per far soffrire gli uomini, Via chanel n°5, i love chanel and a noi don-

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At last it’s the day of the interview, and Sara absolutely must get through this time. It’s two years since she graduated, and she’s had little success in her career or her emotional life. And here she is, desperately late for the appointment, teetering on over-high heels and out of breath (thanks to an alarm clock which doesn’t ring when it should, an unexpected rainstorm and a late bus) under the tall building which is the home of Inside Look, the new magazine specializing in fashion, gossip and a whole range of titillating subjects of which her sister Virginia is an avid reader. This day which

began so badly seems to be getting even worse until, as she tries to slip away without being noticed, she fi nds herself in the lift with... with... yes, none other than the famous, handsome, sexy, dazzling Daniel Gant, whose face and virile form she has often gawped at in the pa-ges of magazines and on posters, always in provocative attitudes. The saliva dries up in her mouth like at the dentist’s. Especially when, after a couple of jolts, it be-comes clear that the lift is stuck and won’t start again, and that her temporary room-mate is about to have an attack of claustrophobia...

patrisha mar was born in Ravenna. Her great passions have always been writing and reading. She ne-

ver leaves home without a book in her handbag. She loves watching films and TV series based on Marvel

and DC comics, BBC adaptations of the classics and American romantic comedies. La mia eccezione sei tu,

originally self-published, has been a bestseller in the online stores.

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Mia is thirty, has a history of unhappy love aff airs and

a mother who arranges blind dates for her, perhaps out

of a sense of guilt at never having given her the aff ection

she needed. Every night Mia dreams of her ideal lover,

but in the morning the wakes up next to a brute with

drooping ears and a bristly coat. By day she runs one of

the best-known veterinary clinics in Turin and organi-

zes pet therapy sessions at the local hospital. True love

never seems to enter her life. Or so Mia thought, until

she meets Alberto, an attractive doctor, and Diego, a

policeman who has just moved to Turin from Puglia. At

last Cupid is going to shoot his arrow; will he manage

to pierce the heart of the right man for Mia?

lucrezia scali was born in Moncalieri in 1986 and a few years later moved to Tu-

rin. Her love for animals led her to the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine in Grugliasco,

where she still studies. Since 2012 she has had a blog, Il libro che pulsa. Te lo dico sot-

tovoce, her first novel, initially self-published, was in the bestselling list of Amazon

and ITunes for two months, after which it was bought by Newton Compton.

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I KEEP YOUR SECRET AS YOU KEEP MINE. TOGETHER THEY WILL BE SAFE.

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The shrewd and observant young Vitale Federici, heir to the lords of Monteferetri, is appointed to investigate a series of seemingly insoluble crimes. But late eighte-enth-century Italy soon proves to be an insidious web of

appearances concealing the machinations of aristocrats, clergymen and magistrates. The cities of Rome, Urbino and Venice become death traps from which only intelli-gence and pretence off er Federici any chance of escape.

marcello simoni was born in Comacchio in 1975. A former archaeologist with a degree in the humanities, he works as a librarian. He has published several non-fic-tion historical studies; with Il mercante di libri maledetti, his first novel, he sold more than 500,000 copies, won the 60th Bancarella Prize, and was shortlisted for the 2012 Fiesole Prize and the 2012 Emilio Salgari Prize. The translation rights have been bought in eighteen countries. With Newton Compton he has also published La biblioteca per-duta dell’alchimista, Il labirinto ai confini del mondo L’isola dei monaci senza nome, L’abbazia dei cento peccati and L’abbazia dei cento delitti. For the series Live he has published I sotterranei della cattedrale, selling over 150,000 copies.

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Octavian is one step away from absolute power. In less than ten years he has eliminated all his adversaries, one after another. There is only one man left who can challenge his unbridled ambition, a personality so infl uential and powerful that the future Augustus has had to make him his brother-in-law and share his em-pire with him: Mark Antony. But now Caesar’s young heir feels strong enough to oppose him openly, partly through propaganda, advised by the crafty Maecenas,

and partly with his armies, under the command of the loyal Agrippa. The

showdown comes closer. While in the east Mark Antony strengthens his ties to the Queen of Egypt, Cleopatra, in the west Octavian carries out a series of campaigns which establish him as a leader as successful as his rival and extend the frontiers of his realm. Then the time comes for the fi nal encounter, a duel for which the two protagonists have been carefully preparing for years, while concealing their real intentions. The Battle of Actium, one of the most important confl icts in Roman history, will not only decide the destiny of the empire, but determine who will be master of the world.

andrea frediani, was born in Rome in 1963; scientific consultant to the magazine ‘Focus Wars’, he has written for a number of specialized journals. With Newton Com-pton he has published several non-fiction works, as well as historical novels, inclu-ding Jerusalem; Un eroe per l’impero romano; the Dictator trilogy; Marathon; La dina-stia; 300 guerrieri and 300. Nascita di un impero. The present book is the final instalment of the saga Gli invincibili, a quadrilogy about Augustus. His works have been transla-ted into five languages. His website is www.andreafrediani.it.

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ANOTHER EPISODE IN THE SAGA ‘THE INVINCIBLES’THE DECISIVE BATTLE FOR CONTROL OF ROME. WILL OCTAVIAN SUCCEED

IN DEFEATING THE DANGEROUS PIRATE SEXTUS POMPEIUS?

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The manuscript of an explorer and a holographic plane-

tarium: two objects that seem to come from beyond the

grave, but which for Professor Laurenzi are proof that

his son Angelo, an archaeologist who disappeared in

the mountains of Mato Grosso, is still alive. Convinced

by the professor to take on a mission which is on the

limits of human capabilities, Charles Fort, the editor of

an online newspaper specializing in mysterious news

items, leaves his home in Bologna and sets out on the

trail of an enigma that has been pursued for centuries

by adventurers, scholars and criminals: what caused the

sudden freezing of the Antarctic and the disappearance

of the Oltotec people? What secrets lie in the last place

where they are said to have lived, and whose ruins are

believed to be hidden in the Brazilian jungle? To answer

these questions, Fort will have to penetrate the Amazo-

nian hell and elude a powerful mining company, which

will stop at nothing to get hold of knowledge which could

shatter the global technological competition...

stefano santarsiere born in 1974, lives and works in Bologna. He published his first novel, l’arte di Khem, in 2005, and his second, Ultimi quaranta secondi della storia del mondo, in 2011. He directed the short film Scaffale 27, winning the prize for the best short film in the contest Complete Your Fiction 2012. la map-pa del manoscritto, initially self-published, has risen into the lists of bestselling ebooks.

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pub date february 2016 | 320 pag. | euro 12,00

A CURIOUS JOURNALIST, A MYSTERY THAT NEEDS TO BE SOLVED, A REVOLUTIONARY TRUTH FOR THE HISTORY AND FUTURE OF HUMANKIND.

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Professor Theodor Klissman has to return to Italy be-cause of the death of his aunt. But a seemingly harmless journey becomes a dangerous adventure. Theodor fi nds himself involved in the search for a notorious painting with occult powers. The painting, which depicts an an-gel dressed in a purple robe, is said to have appeared and disappeared over the centuries, always in diff erent places, driving anyone who has had the misfortune to see it mad. Theodor is convinced that this is only a le-gend, but when he learns that a country priest, whose past is linked to the picture, has disappeared in myste-rious circumstances, he has to investigate. Abandoning caution and rationality, the professor sets out to fi nd

the lost work, determined to unveil its secret once and for all. He is helped in his search by a musician friend, Riccardo, and by the beautiful Irene. The three of them fi nd themselves engaged in a kind of initiatory process which involves exploring subterranean tunnels under-neath Rome, repelling the adepts of a secret sect which is trying to impede them, and seeking assistance from priests and librarians specialized in the ancient world and its relics. What is the mystery behind the history of that picture? Who painted it? Following a trail of clues, Theo comes uncovers a secret that will force him to question everything he believes in...

fabrizio santi, Fabrizio Santi was born in Rome, where he still lives. He studied philosophy and formal logic and graduated in foreign languages and literature. He teaches English at high school in Rome. He took a diploma in piano playing at the “Francesco Morlacchi” Conservatoire in Perugia. He has also stu-died harmony and composition. For about twenty years he has been the artistic director of a Roman musi-cal association and has directed numerous concerts of symphonic and choral music. This is his first novel.

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A NEW DEBUT OF HISTORICAL FICTION

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Florence. Panic spreads through the prestigious Pao-lini auction house: a bomb has exploded and a group of paramilitaries hold the large audience hostage. In a few seconds they achieve their aim – stealing fourteen papyrus scrolls containing an old version of the Bible. Lugano. Andreas Henkel, an agent of the Vatican Secret Service, is faced with a shocking and unexpected event: his girlfriend has been kidnapped.

The two seemingly unconnected events soon prove to be closely lin-

ked. Henkel has the task of fi nding the priceless stolen scrolls, and if he doesn’t succeed in seventy-two hours his girlfriend will die along with hundreds of other people. With the help of Viola, a young Carabinieri lieutenant, he sets out on a journey that takes him fi rst to the Va-tican, then to the Holy Land and fi nally to Athens. His investigations reveal an uncomfortable truth which has been concealed for centuries by the Church. It concerns the true meaning of the Bible.

g.l. barone works for the town council of Varese. For Newton Compton he has pu-blished La cospirazione degli Illuminati, Il sigillo dei tredici Massoni and La chiave di Dante. The translation rights of his books have been sold in the Portuguese and Spa-nish-speaking countries. To learn more, his website is www.glbarone.it

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FROM THE AUTHOR OF LA COSPIRAZIONE DEGLI ILLUMINATIA TRULY ITALIAN BESTSELLER.

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Darkness has fallen in Bari when a shot rings out. A bul-

let hits Antonio De Santis, silencing the jazz music that

fi lled the air. Ten minutes. Six hundred seconds. That’s

how long the businessman has to live. A short enough

time, though it seems endless. Will it be long enough

to allow him to reassess his whole

life? To piece together a puzzle whose overall meaning

has always eluded him? So that he can understand the

meaning of a fateful family holiday on the Côte d’Azure?

And so discover the identity of his murderer, who is now

watching him, shielded by darkness?

francesco caringella, was born in 1965 in Bari. Formerly a naval officer, a po-lice inspector and a prosecuting magistrate at the Court of Milan, since 1997 he has been a State Commissioner. He has written many books on law, and is scientific mana-ger of the publishing house Dike Giuridica.

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One night Claps hears that Giacomo Riondino has escaped, leaving a trail of blood behind him. Seven years earlier, Claps had worked with the police on the Riondino case: two women had been kidnapped, kept prisoner, tortured and killed. The murderer had been caught, but tests had revealed a disturbing fact: Riondi-

no had two diff erent personalities, which alternated in controlling his actions during the course of the day.

At his trial the defendant had been judged non respon-sible for his actions and sent to a psychiatric institution; then, after six years of therapy, he had been deemed no longer dangerous to himself or others and transferred to a rehabilitation centre. That was where he had esca-ped from. Now Claps would have to work with Sensi on another manhunt. A very unusual manhunt this time, because Riondino is close at hand, much closer than you might think...

mario mazzanti, was born in Tuscany and raised in Milan, where he studied medi-cine and where he still works. He lives near Bergamo with his wife, four children and three pets. He likes the cinema, literature and chess. Newton Compton has previously published his Un giorno perfetto per uccidere.

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mArio mAZZAnti do not Kill

pub date june 2015 | 320 pag. | euro 9.90

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March 1967, Campo de’ Fiori, Rome. Twelve-year-old Arianna Baltusi goes out to her music lesson. She never comes back. Although her body has never been found, the evidence leads to the arrest of a family friend: the artist Ottavio Conti, who soon afterwards hangs himself in his cell, though without having confessed to the crime.September 1989. Giuliano Neri postpones moving to Venice in order to spend a couple of months in the Eter-

nal City. As a favour to a friend, the judge Lapo Treschi, Giuliano works

on the restoration of a fresco preserved in the church of Sant’Angelo in Porta Paradisi, behind the piazza Campo de’ Fiori. The painter is Matteo Baltusi, little Arianna’s father, who was killed in a tragic road accident a few ye-ars after her daughter’s disappearance. Intrigued about this mysterious story from the past, Giuliano succeeds in discovering where Arianna’s remains are hidden. But the investigators refuse to reopen the old case. So Giuliano starts an investigation of his own. What really happened that distant afternoon, on 8 March 1967?

letizia triches, was born in Rome, where she still lives. A lecturer and researcher in the history of art, she has published many articles in the journals Prometeo and Ca-hiers d’art. The author of several short stories and novels in the noir detective gen-re, she won the first edition of the Chiara Prize for unpublished works, and has been longlisted for the Scerbanenco Prize. With Newton Compton she has published Il gial-lo di Ponte Vecchio.

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A NEW CASE FOR GIULIANO NERI.

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Michela Bellani is the young owner of a fashionable re-

staurant in Florence. Attractive and self-confi dent, she

has just moved to a new fl at and has met her handsome

neighbour, the police inspector Gabriele Vittori. One

night a burglar breaks into her fl at and is only thwar-

ted by Vittori’s timely intervention. The next day she

reports the break-in, and then life goes on as before.

But her dramatic rescue by Gabriele has made a deep

impression on her, and she wonders if she’s going to be

able to fall in love again for the fi rst time after a tragic

accident four years earlier. Suddenly events come to a

head: the man who broke in to her apartment is killed,

and Vittori has to deploy all his experience and expertise

to discover the identity of the murderer. And stop him

before he can rob Vittori of this enigmatic woman with

whom he fell in love at fi rst sight.

manuela dicati was born in 1979 in Perugia, where she lives with her husband and

three children. She has a degree in media studies and loves dogs, sport and reading.

She began to develop her passion for writing after her third pregnancy.

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The newly appointed Inspector Rossini has been assig-ned to a small village outside Turin, one of those corners of Italy where nothing ever happens, a really quiet place. Yet barely twenty-four hours after his arrival Rossini fi nds himself investigating the fi rst murder to have ta-ken place there in fi fty years. The victim is Sara Ponsat, the young owner of a paper recycling plant which she had inherited from her father. All eyes are suddenly focused on Rossini’s investigations. His predecessor,

Franco Diana, is called in to help. The fear of a murderer on the loose

has galvanized the small community, especially the victim’s family, who are determined to get their hands on the murderer. With the help of the girl’s friends and a journalist, the investigators try to reconstruct the last months of Sara’s life. But they stumble across something much bigger than they had bargained for – a trade in illegally recycled goods and widespread extortion. Rossini struggles to carry out his inquiries and keep the various amateur sleuths under control, while trying to fi gure out what game some of them are playing, and whether one of them knows more than he’s letting on.

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BArBArA SeSSini A QUiet plAce For A crime


Barbara sessini, was born in Iglesias in 1978. She has a philosophy degree from Ca-gliari University and has lived in Turin for more than ten years. A professional journa-list, she has worked on several newspapers, usually specializing in the professions and public health. She currently writes on taxes and legal matters for a daily new-spaper which deals with finance and the law.

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Amethyst fi nds herself in front of a beautiful neoclas-sical house with no idea of how she arrived nor why she feels like she’s always been there. The place exerts

a magnetic attraction on her - elegant, maje-stic and surrounded by immaculate gardens, it is the house where she has always wanted to live. She doesn’t know

whether to ring the bell or walk away, until suddenly an elderly couple appear at the door and invite her to join them. Thus begins Amethyst’s journey through the house of mystery - a place inhabited by incredible, terrifying presences, and a horrifying descent into the depths of consciousness which will end only when the most chilling discovery of all has become a reality from which escape is impossible. A novel whose refi ned, disturbing, thrilling atmosphere will keep the reader nailed to the page.

marzia bisognin, was born 22 years ago in a small town in the North Italy. Her Youtube channel CutiePieMarzia is followed over five continents by more than 5 million people, who she calls her ‘marzipans’. She covers fashion and trends, and a few years ago Marzia moved to Brighton, in the UK, toge-ther with her boyfriend PewDiePie, the world’s most famous Youtuber. Dre-am house is her first novel.

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1001 wines that you should drink once in your life, fa-mous and lesser known brands chosen from the infi nite range of wines that the world off ers: we start with Italy, which represents about 70% of the brands proposed, move on to the other European wine-making regions (particularly France, Spain and Germany, which account for another 20%), and then cross to other continents (the United States, Australia, Chile, New Zealand, India and Lebanon). A fascinating round-the-world tour,

revealing specialities that touch your heart and telling stories of people and countries. An ABC of wine, from how to open a bottle and how to pour it, from the right glass for every wine to the art of opening champagne with a sabre, and a ‘smart’, rapid excursus on the basic notions for ‘handling’ every bottle in the right way and so enjoying it to the full. Plus 1001 profi les of diff erent labels, true biographies of wines, for the connoisseur and the amateur.

Francesca negri, an expert on wine, is wine tutor on the programme Detto Fat-

to on Rai2. She participates in local and national events connected with wine, pre-

sents cooking shows and writes a popular blog, www.geishagourmet.com, where you

can learn all about her.

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mAcHAdo And prete 1001 specialities of italian cuisine to try At least once in Your life


How to enjoy the traditional flavours at their best

Among the specialities:Cutturidd, from the ancient pastoral tradition • Brusti or baldonazzi, excellent with polenta • Testaroli, typical of Eastern Liguria • Castelmagno, a cheese with a no-nonsense flavour • Bottarga, or poor man’s caviar • Zuzzu, pork jelly • Lard

from Colonnata • Sweets from Bettona • Polenta ‘concia’, i.e. laced with layers of cheese • Pandoro from Verona

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A guided tour through the traditional Italian dishes and

the main quality products, travelling along the roads of

Italy’s wines and fl avours, among curiosities and legen-

ds. Italian specialities renowned at home and abroad,

whose fl avours are not to be missed and which are worth

trying at least once in a lifetime. The culinary tourist

is not just a consumer who wants to know where to ‘go

and spend’, but a student of the subject, who loves to

learn and investigate the topics in question, and perhaps

display his or her knowledge of them in company. The

various guidebooks that judge restaurants with their

stars and forks are no longer suffi cient to meet this

need on their own. The present book, by contrast, is

complete and entertaining, and will be an invaluable

tool for getting to know the parts of the Italian culinary

tradition that are still secret.

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Whether spread on bread or gulped down in spoonfuls, nutella® is the product which more than any other embodies taste, pleasure and energy, and for many is the ultimate indulgence. Since its creation in 1964, nutella® has become a legend, a social phenomenon, a cult product. Its success doesn’t derive only from its quality, taste and moreishness; for each of its consu-mers it represents a way of life, a special world in which we feel united by the same zest for living, irrespective of age, class and geography. This book, which also

recounts the history of the product, off ers interesting suggestions for making nutella® the main ingredient both in livening up traditional dishes and in creating unusual and delicious recipes. Accompanied by wonder-ful and enticing illustrations, coated pineapple, almond biscuits, fi lled tartlets, fantasy mixtures, pine-nut tart, nut cakes, bitter-sweet mousse and fi lled panettone are only some of the many suggested ways of eating nutella® in a diff erent and original way.

paola Balducchi, Born and bred in Modena, is a cooking enthusiast, a seekerout of unknown reci-pes, ancient and modern, and the author of several books on the subject. For Newton Compton she has published Ricette per casalinghi disperati, La cucina di mare dell’Emilia Romagna, La cucina di mare del-le Marche, and a number of volumes in the series la Compagnia del buongustaio.

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