Writing

Selected books and novels.

The acclaimed Londra Brucia • Currently bieng translated in English.

“London is a marvellous place of perdition — irresistible for those possessed by artistic ambition and desperate to make a living from it. ‘London Burns’, the debut novel by photographer Luca Desienna, follows Johnny, an Italian-American artist adrift along the Thames, surviving on odd schemes and chasing meaning through the city’s most provocative corners.” Il Sole 24 Ore.

[ We’re the itch under the nation’s skin, the rash it can’t stop scratching. We’re the sickness it needs to feel alive — the cancer it secretly depends on. They need us.

We’re the undigested fruit, the broken crutch of a limping system, the fizz that rises from a cheap bottle when opened by strangers — poets, madmen, anarchists, three-legged acrobats, jugglers, whores, the lost, the hopelessly creative.

We float down here to remind the upper world it still exists — to inspire, to disturb, to prove that life hasn’t yet gone sterile. But it isn’t easy, surviving inside this mechanical city pulse. ]

"Rome City, 2059. Cheyenne Bozo is a forty-year-old unemployed man, burdened by a painful past and with no will to react. When the government selects him to lead a study on happiness — offering in return a series of benefits, including the cancellation of his debts — he is forced to accept. At first reluctant, then increasingly drawn in, he begins his investigation in a hyper-technological world plagued by HIV-2 and moral dilemmas surrounding the spread of “synthetic” androids.”. Arianna Caprioli

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“A Tantric Tale is a story of awakening, intimacy, and quiet rebellion. Set between a Thai island retreat and a European city, it follows two souls as they navigate love, desire, and the fragile space between transcendence and human frailty.”

Recent & Forthcoming

• A Tantric Tale by Luca Desienna — to be published in 2026.
• Upcoming novel (2026): Burn! London burns!.