Books by Giovanni Guareschi

When Peppone loses out to Don Camillo on a matter of conscience, he must accept the battling priest among a group of Italian activists on a trip he is organising to Mother Russia. There they discover a surprise common denominator, more radical than any political ideology.

Beset by the third young progressive leftwing priest with a mandate to steer him into the modern world, Don Camillo digs in and finds a surprise ally in Peppone as he fights to save the three-metre high figure of il Cristo through which he conducts his famous conversations with God.

No. 7 in the Don Camillo Series, this bumper volume of classic Tales from the Lower Plain includes many never before translated into English. Beloved of 23 million readers worldwide, the appeal is universal, to readers aged from 10 to 100.

The fifth in the Don Camillo series and the first wholly new anthology to be translated into English for over forty years. As ever, the book includes conversations with God.

In the sixth book in the Don Camillo series a storm breaks and the village priest discovers that the last straw can break even a Camillo's back.

Set against the post-war backdrop of a village in the Emilia-Romagna, this is the second of the newly translated Don Camillo series with sales of more than 23 million copies worldwide.

These enchanting, wise and strangely moving tales of life in Italy's Emilia-Romagna continue to enthral millions of readers of all ages around the world. In this newly translated volume, many are available in English for the very first time.

The third in the Don Camillo series brings more timeless, bittersweet stories of life in Italy's Lower Plain, many of them in English for the first time.