Jonathan Keates

Not so serene

Is there anything original left to say about Venice? Probably not, but that doesn’t stop the books from coming, tied in, as they mostly now are, with a television series.

  • Venice, Pure City

    Peter Ackroyd

    Chatto & Windus, pp. 387

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