Alma
The Bookman’s Tale
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Lovett’s enjoyable homage to books and bookishness opens, fittingly, in that literary magnet known as Hay-on-Wye in Wales. In 1995, Peter Byerly, an ...Read Review
Isabel’s Skin
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Book valuer David Morris is summoned to Belmont Hall to value the collection of the late Lord Buff-Orpington, a specialist in works of ...Read Review
White Truffles in Winter
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As his life draws to its close, the legendary Auguste Escoffier, whose recipes and system for running a kitchen form the foundation of ...Read Review
Smoke Portrait
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What if you wrote a letter that went to the wrong address, and it was answered in the guise of the person for ...Read Review
Brilliance
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Brilliance is a fictionalised account of the life of Thomas Alva Edison. The author says this book is not intended to be another ...Read Review
Stones for My Father
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South Africa, 1900. Twelve-year-old Corlie Roux lives with her mother and brothers on a farm in the Transvaal. It is land the British are ...Read Review
The Very Thought of You
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This engaging novel was shortlisted for the 2010 Orange Prize for Fiction, and it is not difficult to understand why. The author writes with ...Read Review
White Truffles in Winter
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Famed French chef Auguste Escoffier loves his wife Delphine, despite being separated for the majority of their marriage. Whether Escoffier is in London, ...Read Review
Okei: A Girl from the Provinces
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The old ways of the Shogunate dynasty in the late 1800s are coming to a violent end. Three Western Japanese clans have united ...Read Review
