Everybody needs somebody, sometimes...Lorenzo Cuni is a fourteen-year-old loner. His wealthy parents think he is away on a school skiing trip, but, in fact, he has stowed away in a forgotten cellar. He plans to live in perfect isolation for a week, keeping the adult world at bay. Then a visit from h[...]

One relentlessly hot summer, six children explore the scorched wheat-fields that enclose their tiny Italian village. When the gang find a dilapidated farmhouse, nine-year-old Michele makes a discovery so momentous he dare not tell a soul. It is a secret that will force him to question everything and[...]

An unputdownable thriller, I'm Not Scared is a devastatingly authentic portrayal of childhood and the tension when it must join the adult world.[...]

Italy's best crime writers present nine gripping, often darkly humorous short-stories with settings ranging from Milan to Palermo by way of Rome and even Guadeloupe. These brilliant tales do not feature psychopathic cannibals or obscure power-mad sects but ordinary criminals: a drug-addled cosmetic [...]

Den indadvendte og lidt neurotiske 14 årige Lorenzo gemmer sig i en uge i kælderen i ejendommen, hvor han bor. Her barrikaderer han sig med colaer, dåsemad og horror-romaner for at nyde sin ensomhed uden at skulle konfrontere sig med verden, skolen og det vanskelige forhold til kammeraterne[...]

Plant-driven volatile organic compound (BVOC) emissions play a major role in atmospheric chemistry, including ozone and photochemical smog formation in the troposphere, and they extend the atmospheric lifetime of the key greenhouse gas, methane. Furthermore, condensation of photo-oxidation products [...]