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The fruitcake island of Sicily and its legion of literary visitors

A review of Sicily: A Literary Guide for Travellers by Andrew and Suzanne Edwards. Is there anything that Sicily has not seen and does not know?

3 May 2014

9:00 AM

3 May 2014

9:00 AM

Sicily: A Literary Guide for Travellers Andrew and Suzanne Edwards

I.B. Tauris, pp.256, £16.99, ISBN: 9781780767949

At the opposite end of the Continent to ourselves, Sicily has always been an attraction for the English who, from the vantage of Europe’s historically most stable society, have gazed with fascination at perhaps its least stable.

There were already links between us in the age of the Normans, who conquered Sicily at roughly the same time as they conquered us.

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Available from the Spectator Bookshop, £15.29. Tel: 08430 600033. Duncan Fallowell is the author of To Noto: or London to Sicily in a Ford.

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