A journey along the River Po and through Italian history, society and culture, from journalist and author Tobias Jones.
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Tobias Jones is an author whose work delves deeply into social and cultural themes with a distinctive narrative style. His writings often explore the complexities of human nature and the intricate relationships between individuals and society. Jones's approach is characterized by keen observation and insightful commentary, engaging readers and prompting reflection. His prose is admired for its literary merit and its capacity to evoke powerful emotional responses.
- 2022
- 2020
Ultra
- 432 pages
- 16 hours of reading
An exploration of the dark side of football, of Italy and of far right politics and organised crime: the hard core fans known as the ultras.
- 2015
A Place of Refuge
- 368 pages
- 13 hours of reading
Share your belongings and start belonging aEURO the story of Windsor Hill Wood
- 2013
Blood on the Altar
- 336 pages
- 12 hours of reading
It's not until 2010, when Elisa's decomposed body is found in the church where she went missing, that the two cases are linked and Restivo is finally dealt with.
- 2012
White Death
- 288 pages
- 11 hours of reading
But before long the businessman is receiving threatening phonecalls, his factory is burnt to the ground and an employee loses his life. Castagnetti traces similar cases of arson across the city and realises that this sort of systematic intimidation happens when the owner's land is about to be redesignated as residential.
- 2009
The Salati Case
- 240 pages
- 9 hours of reading
Castagnetti (informally known as 'Casta') is a private detective who doesn't do things by the book. He's dogged and lonely, impatient with the world of appearances and deceit. So when a pompous notary commissions him to verify that a missing person is "presumed dead" in order to dispose of a dead woman's estate to the other heirs, Casta smells a rat. Before long he's reopening wounds from years ago and exposing family secrets to those who have tried to suppress them.The relatives of Signora Salati just want their their inheritance, but Casta is going to make sure they get their just desserts as well. Because Casta isn't the sort to content himself with "presumed dead". He likes certainty, the kind of certainty that comes from seeing a skeleton. As the Salati case progresses, other corpses appear and Casta realises he's at the centre of an old-fashioned Italian whodunit.The Salti Case marks the appearance of a new and memorable detective: an orphan who has pulled himself up from the mean streets.
- 2008
Utopian Dreams
- 240 pages
- 9 hours of reading
Utopian Dreams offers one writer's attempt to retreat from the 'real world' - which is making him emptier and angrier by the day - and seek out the alternatives to modern manners and morality.
- 2003
Why is Italy still riven with internal conflict? Tobias Jones set out to answer this and many other questions during his three-year voyage across the Italian peninsula. He discovers a country which is proudly visual rather than verbal and where crime is hardly ever followed by punishment.
