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This is the story of a beautiful, lifelong friendship of laughter that centred around the Villa Marchio near Lucca, Tuscany, where John Fleming and Hugh Honour, both art historians and the last great British eccentrics, had created the perfect life for themselves. They first met Susanna Johnston, their quirky neighbour-to-be, at Oris Origo's villa set on a rocky promontory in Lerici when we she was down and out looking for a job as a teenager....

A charming, amusing and warming collection of true short stories and vignettes by diarist and author Susanna Johnston: a romp through family life, replete with eccentric relations and amusing anecdotes.

Susanna Johnston tells the best stories from her friendship with British eccentrics John Fleming and Hugh Honour during their time as expatriates in Tuscany, with an evocative command of setting.

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First memoir on bestselling giants of the art world (and great eccentrics), Hugh Honour and John Fleming by one of their closest friends over 60 years.

This roman a clef revolves around Victoria, barely twenty, who finds herself acting as amanuensis to Laurence, an elderly man of letters, now blind, who lives in a ravishing house by the sea in northern Italy. Soon after her arrival, she indulges in a heady night of passion with Edgar, a youthful Englishman. Edgar's mother, Lettice, who is jealous and suspicious of Victoria's prettiness and her ability to amuse Lettice's intellectual friends, ...

Sensuous, darkly funny bordering on demonic, Patricia and Malise is a wicked love story set in 1950s Italy that skillfully plays with British obsessions.

A chance encounter on a terrace in Lucca leads to unintended consequences in this dark comedy of manners.

Many novelists, playwrights, and poets have used parties as tour de force set pieces to portray the dynamics of character, plot, and social interactions. This fabulously entertaining collection gathers the best writing about this most social of rituals from such diverse sources as the Bible, Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Truman Capote, and others. A sparkling volume sure to be imbibed as joyously as vintage champagne.