Gianrico Carofiglio is best known in the UK for his series of six legal thrillers featuring the indomitable defence lawyer Guido Guerrieri. These are more than mere crime stories:
In my early years in the profession I liked going into prisons. Around the age of thirty, it gave me the feeling I was someone who was dealing with serious things. Someone on whose
‘I have always thought of my activities as the tributaries of a single creative river,’ says Francesco Carofiglio at one point in the discussion with me and his brother, conduc
Gianrico Carofiglio will be in conversation with Sheldon Zenner, a former federal prosecutor and a defense attorney in the United States. They will discuss Carofiglio’s new
This is Gianrico Carofiglio’s latest outing for his campaigning lawyer, Guido Guerrieri from Puglia (his name implies ‘warrior’). We left him in A Fine Line (reviewed here in
Jacopo Rosatelli […] the risk nowadays is that politics is seen as something we cannot influence. Putting it simply, if everything is decided in Brussels, Berlin or “th
“Political thinkers, in general, can be divided into two classes: the Utopian with his head in the clouds and the Realist with his feet in the mud.” (George Orwell) Fou
In his last novel (A Fine Line, see my review of May 2016), we left Carofiglio’s lawyer-hero Guido Guerrieri musing ruefully and bitterly on the ethics of the legal profession, a
Thursday 20 September at 7pm, at The Italian Cultural Institute, 39 Belgrave Square, London SW1X 8NX. Gianrico Carofiglio, bestselling novelist and former anti-mafia prosecutor wi
A fresh new look at European literature through its stars – the writers! *EURO STARS* brings the best contemporary writers from across Europe to the UK for a series of lively rea
