Ian Thomson

Beautiful, bedevilled island

Two new books on Sicily celebrate the island’s rich history, from the ancient Greeks to Cosa Nostra (but both are wrong about Leonardo Sciascia)

  • Sicily: A Short History from the Ancient Greeks to Cosa Nostra

    John Julius Norwich

    John Murray, pp. 366

  • Palermo, City of Kings: The Heart of Sicily

    Jeremy Dummett

    I.B. Tauris, pp. 258

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