Paperback: Just what is it like for a foreigner to live and work in a northern Italian village and become part of the community?
How tough is it to leave your home country and settle in a new one?
What do you have to do to be accepted by the people who live in a village that has existed for over five hundred years?
Award-winning artist and stage designer Paul Wright and his partner Nicola found out the hard way, working, playing, laughing, eating and drinking alongside the residents of a beautiful lakeside village.
Enjoy Paul's dry Liverpudlian sense of humour as he conveys a vivid word picture of life beside the lake with their colourful and resourceful neighbours.
An Italian Home, Paul Wright's first book, was published in 2011. His second book - An Italian Village - a sequel to An Italian Home, is available on 28 November 2016.
About the author: Paul Wright is an award-winning English artist who specialises in large scale murals, Trompe l'Oeil painted furniture, contemporary oil paintings and watercolour landscapes.
In 1982, following a period spent designing theatre sets around the UK, Paul started his own art studio in Surrey, where he specialised in hand painted interiors for private homes and commercial premises.
In 1991, he moved to northern Italy with his partner, Nicola, where he continues to work from his studio and art gallery base in the beautiful medieval village of Argegno on the shores of Lake Como, and from where he travels to other European countries and to the USA.
Paul's work has been featured in many art exhibitions in the UK and on two programmes for Italian television, plus dozens of periodicals and newspapers worldwide, notably The Sunday Times, Architectural Digest, The Wall Street Journal and The Arts Review.
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