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Bookends

Bookends: Venice improper

25 June 2011

10:00 AM

25 June 2011

10:00 AM

Books about Venice are almost as numerous as gondolas on the Grand Canal, but Robin Saikia is the first to write one about the Lido. The subject might be thought too insubstantial for a book of its own, and so it proves: excluding its index and appendices, The Venice Lido (Somerset Books, £6.95)

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