Italy

de Alastair Sawday, Zoe Winterbotham, Nicole Franchini, Jo Boissevain

A collection of 400 gorgeous places to stay in Italy. It provides ready-made friends and contacts, with beautiful and interesting houses to spend time in. It lets you stay in a B & B at the foot of Mount Etna, a 16th-century monastery on the Italian Lakes, a medieval hamlet in Le Marche - there's even an entire village in Tuscany.