Italy is the Guest of Honour at the Frankfurt Book Fair. That's why the October reading time features Italian literature. The actor Antonio Manzini has made a name for himself in his home country, but also in Germany, as a crime writer with stories about the unconventional investigator Rocco Schavione. In 2015, Manzini wrote »Spitzentitel«, a tragicomic satire about the literary world, translated into German by Antje Peter: A famous writer has finished a new novel, but his publishing house has since been swallowed up by a large corporation, and now changes suitable for the public are needed.