# Title Author Publisher Price/Euro 1 Accabadora Michela Murgia Einaudi 12.00 2 Tre ciotole: Rituali per un anno di crisi / Three Bowls: Rituals for a Year in Crisis Michela Murgia Mondadori 18.00 3 La portalettere/ The Postmistress Francesca Giannone Editrice Nord 19.00 4 Una piccola formalità / A Small Formality Alessia Gazzola Longanesi 16.90 5 La guerra delle due regine: Blood and Ash/ … Continued
Unit sales of print books fell 8.3% last week compared to the week ended August 6, 2023 at outlets that report to Circana BookScan. Sales were down in all categories, including adult fiction where sales dropped 11.4%. Adult fiction has been by far the best performing category in 2023, but it is now struggling to keep pace with last year’s sales figures. A year … Continued
Italy’s publishers are joined by their bookselling and library colleagues in an effort to make COVID-era library funding perpetual. As many of our professional world publishing readers will know, one post-pandemic issue in some markets has to do with “fading funding”—usually government allocated financial support for a cultural sector. This is normally a program of support that was made available to a given sector … Continued
# Title Author Publisher Price/Euro 1 Accabadora Michela Murgia Einaudi 12.00 2 Tre ciotole: Rituali per un anno di crisi / Three Bowls: Rituals for a Year in Crisis Michela Murgia Mondadori 18.00 3 La portalettere/ The Postmistress Francesca Giannone Editrice Nord 19.00 4 Come d’aria / Like Air Ada D’Adamo Elliot 15.00 5 Il cognome delle donne / Women’s Last Names Aurora Tamigio … Continued
# Title Author Publisher Price/Euro 1 Tre ciotole. Rituali per un anno di crisi/ Three Bowls: Rituals for a Year in Crisis Michela Murgia Mondadori 18.00 2 Come d’aria/ Like Air Ada d’Adamo Elliot 15.00 3 La portalettere/ The Postmistress Francesca Giannone Editrice Nord 19.00 4 Il cognome delle donne / Women’s Last Names Aurora Tamigio Feltrinelli 19.00 5 Donne che pensano troppo / … Continued
Anti-fascist and best-selling novelist was a campaigner for LGBTQ+ rights and had recently made her illness public. Novelist and playwright, Michela Murgia was a winner of the Premio Campiello and the Mondello International Literary Prize. She was an active feminist and left-wing voice in the Italian public scene, speaking out on themes such as euthanasia and LGBTQ+ rights. Murgia was born in Cabras, Sardinia … Continued
# Title Author Publisher Price/Euro 1 Come d’aria/ Like Air Ada d’Adamo Elliot 15.00 2 La portalettere/ The Postmistress Francesca Giannone Editrice Nord 19.00 3 Il cognome delle donne / Women’s Last Names Aurora Tamigio Feltrinelli 19.00 4 ELP Antonio Manzini Sellerio Editore Palermo 17.00 5 La banda dei carusi / The Apprentices’ Gang Cristina Cassar Scalia Einaudi 18.50 6 Un buon posto in … Continued
As the European Parliament works through its ‘AI Act’ legislation, Italy’s publishers back the country’s industrial sector’s position. The Association of Italian Publishers (Associazione Italiana Editori, AIE), influential among European publishers associations, is signaling its support for the statements of the Confindustria Cultura Italia and its new position paper on artificial intelligence. The Confindustria, as many Publishing Perspectives readers will recall, is the umbrella organization-of-organizations, bringing together manufacturing and service … Continued
# Title Author Publisher Price/Euro 1 Come d’aria/ Like Air Ada d’Adamo Elliot 15.00 2 Il cognome delle donne / Womens’ Last Names Aurora Tamigio Feltrinelli 19.00 3 La banda dei carusi / The Apprentices’ Gang Cristina Cassar Scalia Einaudi 18.50 4 ELP Antonio Manzini Sellerio Editore Palermo 17.00 5 La portaletture / The Postmistress Francesca Giannone Nord 19.00 6 L’insostenibile leggerezza dell’essere/The Unbearable … Continued
# Title Author Publisher Price/Euro 1 Come d’aria/ Like Air Ada d’Adamo Elliot 15.00 2 La banda dei carusi / The Apprentices’ Gang Cristina Cassar Scalia Einaudi 18.50 3 Beyond the story: Il racconto di 10 anni di BTS/ 10 Year Record of BTS Myeongseok Kang, BTS Mondadori 28.00 4 ELP Antonio Manzini Sellerio Editore Palermo 17.00 5 Il cognome delle donne / Womens’ … Continued
