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Robert reads every email personally. Forms below if you'd prefer.
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Both 2026 events sold out before public release thanks largely to early-access subscribers. Add your email below and you'll hear about the next city before tickets go on general sale. You'll also receive Robert's occasional letter — a story, an archive photograph, an upcoming date. Nothing else.
Speaking enquiries
Robert is taking enquiries for autumn 2026 and 2027 from literary festivals, cultural societies, Italian clubs, libraries, museums, cafés, restaurants and corporate cultural evenings throughout the UK and Italy. A typical evening runs ninety minutes including Q&A and book signing.
For journalists, reviewers & venue marketing teams
Robert is happy to give interviews, write guest pieces, and provide background for editorial features on Italian-British migration, the Donnini story, the Arandora Star, the Glasgow-Barga twinning, and related themes. A short bio and high-resolution images are available on request.
One-paragraph bio
Robert Rossi is a British-born Italian author whose Blood Heart Trilogy traces the migration of Tuscan families from Barga to Scotland and the North-East of England, and the Second World War that defined them. His debut novel, Italian Blood, British Heart, was inspired by the true story of Fusilier Dennis Donnini VC — at nineteen, the youngest soldier of the war to receive the Victoria Cross — a distant cousin Robert discovered by chance. Robert was born in Glasgow to parents from Barga, and divides his time between the UK and Tuscany.
Story angles editors might explore
- How Barga in Tuscany became “the most Scottish town in Italy” — and is now twinned with East Lothian
- The teenage Italian-British soldier who became the youngest VC of the Second World War
- The Arandora Star tragedy: 446 Italian internees lost in 1940
- Why every Scottish chip shop has Tuscan grandparents
- Second-generation memory: writing your grandparents' stories before they're lost
Press contact
For interview requests, review copies and high-resolution photography, please use the form below or email directly at robertrossiauthor@gmail.com.
“If you've read the trilogy and want to share your own family's story — Tuscan, Glaswegian, Geordie or otherwise — I read every email. Some of the best chapters of my next novel began as messages from readers.” — Robert Rossi