Georgia Alù. Beyond the Traveller’s Gaze: Expatriate Ladies Writing in Sicily (1848-1910). Oxford: Peter Lang, 2008. ISBN: 9783039110537. Price: US$82.95/£40

Annemarie McAllister. John Bull’s Italian Snakes and Ladders: English Attitudes to Italy in the mid-nineteenth Century. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007. ISBN: 9781847182623. Price: US$52.99/£34.99