Marco Magnone is one of the most admired and sought after children’s authors by schools, exhibitions and reading groups in Italy, through which he meets thousands and thousands of young readers all over the country every year.
His works include: the novels My Light Blue Summer (romance-coming-of-age contemporary, Mondadori, 2019, over 10,000 copies in Italy), Until the Last Breath (teen drama-coming-of-age contemporary, Mondadori, 2021), Celeste’s War (adventure-historical, Mondadori, 2022, longlisted for Premio Strega Ragazze e Ragazzi, over 10,000 copies in Italy), Read Again Nanà (picture book, Mondadori, 2025, longlisted for the Premio Strega Ragazze e Ragazzi). With Fabio Geda he has signed the two successful sagas Berlin (dystopian, 6 volumes, Mondadori, 2015-2018, translated into German, Greek, Romanian and optioned for cinema, over 100,000 copies in Italy) and The Secrets of Acquamorta (contemporary thriller-mystery, 4 volumes, Mondadori, 2021-2022), the novel Barriera (co-authored with Manlio Castagna, contemporary teen thriller-crime-coming-of-age, Piemme, 2023).
He teaches at the Holden School in Turin, at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan and collaborates in the artistic direction of the Storie in Cammino festival in Firenzuola.
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Count Dawn. The Book of Snow
Choose your future, before your future chooses you. It’s 2069. A hostile life form has fused with technology and taken control of humanity. A group of rebels risk everything to send a book back in time – the only record of their downfall, a desperate warning to change history. In the present, nineteen-year-old radical activist Scarlett stumbles upon that very…
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Barriera
In Barriera, everyone’s fate is written in their blood. And you can’t change that. Sixteen-year-old Yasin lives in Barriera, a tough neighbourhood on the outskirts of Turin. He’s caught between his first love and a brother who’s just been released from prison, between who he wants to be and who the world expects him to be. Malik, his brother, is trying…
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Mysteries of Summer
Six mysteries. One season where mystery never takes a break. Six original summer stories by Italian acclaimed authors. A girl haunted by a ghost who might be herself. A cursed necklace passed from hand to hand. A school trip gone terrifyingly wrong… Each tale is a standalone mystery—spine-chilling, elegant, or surreal—set in the inescapable heat of the Italian summer. A fresh,…
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We Are Fire
When love burns, nothing is safe, not even the friendships we thought would last forever. A heady, sun-drenched summer in Puglia. A legendary friendship. A girl who changes everything. Charming and reckless, Nicolas is used to getting what he wants. His quieter best friend, Alex, has always followed him. But when they both fall for the same girl, Mia, their loyalty is…
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Celeste’s War
Autumn 1944. In the woods of the Langhe, twelve-year-old Celeste and his little sister Flora, five, are playing Training, a survival game to prepare for the arrival of the enemy – and the enemy, they have always been taught, are the rebels who have gone up into the hills: the partisans. But nothing can prepare them for what they find…
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Read Again Nanà
Magnificent illustrations accompany this intense story about the power of words with delicate strokes, which tells even the youngest children how each of us can always make a difference. There is a small village at the top of the mountains, far from everything, living in peace and harmony with nature. The only contact with the world is the newspapers, which…
