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John Saturnall's Feast

Lawrence Norfolk
John Saturnall s Feast Book PDF

Author : Lawrence Norfolk
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012-09-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780802193957

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“An enthralling tale of an orphan kitchen boy turned master of culinary arts, with sumptuous recipes and intoxicatingly gorgeous illustrations.” —Vanity Fair A beautiful, rich and sensuous historical novel, John Saturnall’s Feast tells the story of a young orphan who becomes a kitchen boy at a manor house, and rises through the ranks to become the greatest cook of his generation. It is a story of food, star-crossed lovers, ancient myths, and one boy’s rise from outcast to hero. Orphaned when his mother dies of starvation, having been cast out of her village as a witch, John is taken in at the kitchens at Buckland Manor, where he quickly rises from kitchen boy to cook, and is known for his uniquely keen palate and natural cooking ability. However, he quickly gets on the wrong side of Lady Lucretia, the aristocratic daughter of the Lord of the Manor. In order to inherit the estate, Lucretia must wed, but her fiancé is an arrogant buffoon. When Lucretia takes on a vow of hunger until her father calls off her engagement to her insipid husband-to-be, it falls to John to try to cook her delicious foods that might tempt her to break her fast. “Shimmering with wonder, suffused with an intense and infectious appreciation for the gifts of bountiful nature, John Saturnall’s Feast is a banquet for the senses and a treat to anyone who relishes masterful storytelling.” —The Washington Post

John Saturnall's Feast

Lawrence Norfolk
John Saturnall s Feast Book PDF

Author : Lawrence Norfolk
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781408831168

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John Saturnall's Feast by Lawrence Norfolk Pdf

In the remote village of Buckland, a mob chants of witchcraft. It is 1625, and John and his mother are running for their lives. Taking refuge among the trees of Buccla's Wood, John's mother opens her book and begins to tell her son of an ancient Feast kept in secret down the generations. Little does he know that one day, to keep hold of all that he holds most dear, he most realize his mother's vision - he must serve the Saturnall Feast.

Lemprière's Dictionary

Lawrence Norfolk
Lempri re s Dictionary Book PDF

Author : Lawrence Norfolk
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Page : 861 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2007-12-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780802199430

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Lemprière's Dictionary by Lawrence Norfolk Pdf

The Somerset Maugham Prize–winning, international bestselling debut novel: “a dazzling linguistic and formal achievement” set in 18th century London (Salman Rushdie). In eighteenth-century London, John Lempriere works feverishly on a celebrated dictionary of classical mythology that bears his name. But when he discovers a conspiracy against his family dating back 150 years, he embarks on a personal mission that will pit him against enemies he never new he had, allies he never thought he would ever want, and a destiny he never imagined . . . Told with the narrative drive of a political thriller and a Dickensian panorama of place and time, this “superbly entertaining” tale encompasses multinational conspiracies and a motley cast of scholars, eccentrics, prostitutes, assassins, drunken aristocrats, and octogenarian pirates—all brilliantly depicted across three continents and the world of classical mythology (The Washington Post).

The Pope's Rhinoceros

Lawrence Norfolk
The Pope s Rhinoceros Book PDF

Author : Lawrence Norfolk
Publisher : Random House
Page : 768 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781448105854

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The Pope's Rhinoceros by Lawrence Norfolk Pdf

In February 1516, a Portugese ship sank with the loss of all hands a mile off the coast of Italy. The Nostra Senora da Adjuda had sailed 14000 miles from the Indian kingdom Gujarat: her mission, to deliver a rhinoceros to the Pope. The Pope's Rhinoceros tells the stories which culminate in this bizarre incident. Ranging from the Baltic Sea to a flyblown colony in India, from a tribe hidden in the African rain forest to atrocities committed in an obscure town in Tuscany, Norfolk's brilliant novel holds up the true history of the rhinoceros as a mirror to the fantasies and obsessions of the Renaissance.

Twentieth Century Pleasures

Robert Hass
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Author : Robert Hass
Publisher : New York : Ecco Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015005895894

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Twentieth Century Pleasures by Robert Hass Pdf

A selection of essays written during the last five years on the importance and vitality of poetry.

Tokyo Doesn't Love Us Anymore

Ray Loriga
Tokyo Doesn t Love Us Anymore Book PDF

Author : Ray Loriga
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2007-12-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780802199461

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Tokyo Doesn't Love Us Anymore by Ray Loriga Pdf

This dreamlike dystopian novel “shines a dark spotlight on the modern allure of pharmaceuticals’ seeming power to assuage all ills” (Booklist). Set in the very near future, this is the story of a traveling salesman floating from arid Arizona parking lots to steamy Bangkok bars and beyond to peddle the hottest new commodity for a group known only as The Company. What he has is a drug that erases memory. You can choose your oblivion, be it one mistake or a lifetime of pain. But things become hazy when our hero begins sampling the goods and reaches the point where he can’t even remember what it is he cannot remember. A pitch-perfect piece for our times filled with hypnotic prose, Tokyo Doesn’t Love Us Anymore is both a riveting story and a thoughtful exploration of the drug culture that surrounds us, the nature of forgetfulness, and the implacable tyranny of emotions—questioning what it means to be human when everything, including human identity, can be bought. “Part crime novel, part political allegory, part love story . . . Compelling.” —The New York Times Book Review

The Sorcerer's Apprentices

Lisa Abend
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Author : Lisa Abend
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781451626629

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The Sorcerer's Apprentices by Lisa Abend Pdf

"Kitchen Confidential" meets "Heat" in the first behind-the-scenes portrait of the world's best restaurant and the aspiring chefs who toil to make it so exceptional. Elected best restaurant in the world by Restaurant magazine an unprecedented five times, El Bulli is the laboratory of Ferran Adria, the maverick creator of molecular gastronomy. Behind each of the thirty or more courses that make up a meal at El Bulli is a small army of young cooks who do the work of executing Adria's vision in exchange for nothing more than the chance to learn at his hands. Granted unprecedented access to this guild system, Lisa Abend follows the thirty-five stagiaries of the 2009 season as they struggle to master the grueling hours, cutting-edge techniques, and interpersonal tensions that come with working at the most revered restaurant on earth.

In the Shape of a Boar

Lawrence Norfolk
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Author : Lawrence Norfolk
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2012-06-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780802193674

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In the Shape of a Boar by Lawrence Norfolk Pdf

“One of the year’s most imaginative and challenging novels” from the acclaimed author of John Saturnall’s Feast (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). Lawrence Norfolk’s In the Shape of a Boar is a juggernaut of a novel, an epic tour de force of love and betrayal, ancient myths and modern horrors. The story begins in the ancient world of mythic Greece, where a dark tale of treachery and destructive love unfolds amid the hunt for the Boar of Kalydon—a tale that will reverberate in those same hills across the millennia in the final chaotic months of World War II, as a band of Greek partisans pursues an S.S. officer on a mission of vengeance. After the war, a young Jewish Romanian refugee, Solomon Memel, who was among the hunters will create a poem based on the experience, which becomes an international literary sensation. But the truth of what happened in the hills of Kalydon in 1945 is more complicated than it seems, and as the older Sol reunites with his childhood love in 1970s Paris, the dark memories and horrors of those days will emerge anew. “An epic achievement . . . stitching together classical Greek culture and twentieth-century barbarism, the nature of human evil and the ambiguity of storytelling itself . . . Dazzling.”—San Francisco Chronicle “Brilliant and exhaustively researched . . . In the Shape of a Boar is a Herculean task accomplished with bravado and style, but more than that, it’s storytelling of the highest echelon.”—The Hartford Courant “Wonderfully complex . . . a fascinating story built from layered narrative lines.”—The Washington Post Book World

The Journal of Dora Damage

Belinda Starling
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Author : Belinda Starling
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2010-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781608196043

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The Journal of Dora Damage by Belinda Starling Pdf

London, 1860: On the brink of destitution, Dora Damage illicitly takes over her ailing husband's bookbinding business, only to find herself lured into binding expensive volumes of pornography commissioned by aristocratic roués. Dora's charm and indefatigable spirit carry her through this rude awakening as she contends with violent debt collectors, an epileptic daughter, evil doctors, a rheumatic husband, errant workmen, nosy neighbors, and a constant stream of wealthy dilettantes. When she suddenly finds herself forced to offer an internship to a mysterious, fugitive American slave, Dora realizes she has been pulled into in an illegal trade of sex, money, and deceit. The Journal of Dora Damage conjures a vision of London when it was the largest city in the world, grappling with the filth produced by a swollen population. Against a backdrop of power and politics, work and idleness, conservatism and abolitionism, Belinda Starling explores the restrictions of gender, class, and race, the ties of family and love, and the price of freedom in this wholly engrossing debut novel. REVIEWS: "Unfortunately, Starling's debut novel will be her last; she died prematurely last year at the age of 34. Although the plot is a bit too crowded and overworked-a common novice mistake-this historical melodrama artfully evokes the contradictions inherent in Victorian society. When Dora Damage is forced by circumstances-an invalid husband and an epileptic daughter-to take over the family bookbinding business, she is inexorably drawn into a London netherworld she barely knew existed. As if binding pornographic books for a circle of aristocratic clients isn't bad enough, she is also compelled to harbor Din Nelson, a fugitive American slave. Unable to suppress her emotional and physical attraction for Din, she gives into desire and her real education begins."- Booklist

Diamond Star Halo

Tiffany Murray
Diamond Star Halo Book PDF

Author : Tiffany Murray
Publisher : Granta Books
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2011-04-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781846273568

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Diamond Star Halo by Tiffany Murray Pdf

Growing up in a rural recording studio, Halo Llewellyn is rarely star-struck, but when one of the visiting singers gives birth to Fred, she knows right away that he's special. As the golden child grows into the gilded man, she remains dazzled by his ambition and his talent. Up on stage, being screamed at by hundreds of teenage girls, Fred will always turn his spotlight on Halo in the crowd. But that's the problem with falling in love with your charismatic almost-brother - it can never be a secret. In the end, the whole world has to know.

Merivel

Rose Tremain
Merivel Book PDF

Author : Rose Tremain
Publisher : Random House
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781448138586

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Merivel by Rose Tremain Pdf

‘One of the great imaginative creations in English literature’ Daily Telegraph A dazzling novel of loyalty and dreams set in Restoration England. The gaudy years of the Restoration are long gone and Robert Merivel, physician and courtier to King Charles II, sets off for the French court in search of a fresh start. But royal life at the Palace of Versailles – all glitter in front and squalor behind – leaves him in despair, until a chance encounter with the seductive Madame de Flamanville, allows him to dream of a different future. But will that future ever be his? Summoned home urgently to attend to the ailing King, Merivel finds his loyalty and skill tested to their limits. Rose Tremain has sold over one million copies of her books. PRAISE FOR MERIVEL ‘This book is richly marbled with intelligence, compassion and compelling characters’ The Times 'Magnificent story-teller' Independent on Sunday ‘Wonderfully entertaining’ Michael Holroyd, Guardian Books of the Year

Harbour

John Ajvide Lindqvist
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Author : John Ajvide Lindqvist
Publisher : Text Publishing
Page : 507 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2011-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781921758669

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Harbour by John Ajvide Lindqvist Pdf

On a winter trip home to the island of Domarö, Anders and Cecilia take their six-year-old daughter Maja across the ice to visit the lighthouse at Gåvasten. And Maja disappears. Leaving not even a footprint in the snow. Two years later, alone and more or less permanently drunk, Anders returns to Domarö to confront his despair. He slowly realises that Maja's disappearance is not the first inexplicable tragedy to strike the islanders. Nor is everyone telling him all they know; even his own grandmother, it seems, is keeping secrets. And what is it about the sea? There's something very bad happening on Domarö. Something that involves the sea itself. John Ajvide Lindqvist serves up a masterful cocktail of suspense laced with bizarre humour and a narrative that barely pauses for breath. Harbour is also a heartbreaking study of loss and guilt: a novel whose epic climax pits the infinite force of nature against the implacable love of a father for his child.

W. Reginald Bray

John Tingey
W Reginald Bray Book PDF

Author : John Tingey
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2010-10-15
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1568988729

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W. Reginald Bray by John Tingey Pdf

The first impression of W. Reginald Bray (1879-1939) was one of an ordinary middle-class Englishman quietly living out his time as an accountant in the leafy suburb of Forest Hill, London. A glimpse behind his study door, however, revealed his extraordinary passion for sending unusual items through the mail. In 1898, Bray purchased a copy of the Post Office Guide, and began to study the regulations published quarterly by the British postal authorities. He discovered that the smallest item one could post was a bee, and the largest, an elephant. Intrigued,he decided to experiment with sending ordinary and strange objects through the post unwrapped, including a turnip, abowler hat, a bicycle pump, shirt cuffs, seaweed, a clothes brush, even a rabbit's skull. He eventually posted his Irish terrier and himself (not together), earning him the name "The Human Letter." He also mailed cards to challenging addressessome in the form of picture puzzles, others sent to ambiguous recipients at hard to reach destinationsall in the name of testing the deductive powers of the beleaguered postman. Over time hispassion changed from sending curios to amassing the world's largest collection of autographs, also via the post. Starting with key British military officers involved in the Second Boer War, he acquired thousands of autographs during the first four decades of the twentieth centuryof politicians, military men, performing artists, aviators, sporting stars, and many others. By the time he died in 1939, Bray had sent out more than thirty-two thousand postal curios and autograph requests. The Englishman Who Posted Himself and Other Curious Objects tells W. Reginald Bray's remarkable tale for the first time and includes delightful illustrations of some of his most amazing postal creations. Readers will never look at the objects they post the same way again.

Understanding Nature

Hub Zwart
Understanding Nature Book PDF

Author : Hub Zwart
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2008-01-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781402064920

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Understanding Nature by Hub Zwart Pdf

Science is not the only route to understanding nature. This volume presents a series of case studies in comparative epistemology, critically comparing the works of prominent representatives of the life sciences, such as Aristotle, Darwin, and Mendel, with the writings of literary masters, such as Andersen, Melville, Verne, and Ibsen. It constitutes a major contribution to the growing field of science and literature studies.

The Book of Night with Moon

Diane Duane
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Author : Diane Duane
Publisher : Aspect
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2001-02-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780759521698

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The Book of Night with Moon by Diane Duane Pdf

Rhiow seems a perfectly ordinary New York City cat. Or so her humans think--but she is much more than she appears. With her partners Saash and Urruah, she collaborates with human wizards, protecting the earth from dark forces and helping to maintain the network of magical gateways between different realities.