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Isabel’s Skin
Book valuer David Morris is summoned to Belmont Hall to value the collection of the late Lord Buff-Orpington, a specialist…
White Truffles in Winter
As his life draws to its close, the legendary Auguste Escoffier, whose recipes and system for running a kitchen form…
Smoke Portrait
What if you wrote a letter that went to the wrong address, and it was answered in the guise of…
Brilliance
Brilliance is a fictionalised account of the life of Thomas Alva Edison. The author says this book is not intended…
Stones for My Father
South Africa, 1900. Twelve-year-old Corlie Roux lives with her mother and brothers on a farm in the Transvaal. It is…
White Truffles in Winter
Editors' choice
Famed French chef Auguste Escoffier loves his wife Delphine, despite being separated for the majority of their marriage. Whether Escoffier…
The Very Thought of You
This engaging novel was shortlisted for the 2010 Orange Prize for Fiction, and it is not difficult to understand why.…
Okei: A Girl from the Provinces
The old ways of the Shogunate dynasty in the late 1800s are coming to a violent end. Three Western Japanese…
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