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THE HUNDRED-FOOT JOURNEY is the story of Hassan Haji, a boy from Mumbai who embarks, along with his boisterous family, on a picaresque journey first to London and then across Europe, before they ultimately open a restaurant opposite a famous chef, Madame Mallory, in the remote French village of...

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When Rachel Verinder’s legacy of a priceless Indian diamond is stolen, all the evidence indicates that it is her beloved, Franklin Blake, who is guilty. Around this central axis of crime and thwarted love, Collins constructs an ingenious plot of teasing twists and surprises, and an elaborate...

A rich and varied array of stories and vignettes, The Pickwick Papers is based around the investigations of the Corresponding Society of the Pickwick Club, consisting of its founder Mr Samuel Pickwick and Messrs Tracy Tupman, Augustus Snodgrass and Nathaniel Winkle, who travel around the country...

When Sofia Behrs married Count Leo Tolstoy, the author of "War and Peace", husband and wife regularly exchanged diaries covering the years from 1862 to 1910. Sofia"s life was not an easy one: she idealized her husband, but was tormented by him; even her many children were not an...

In this riveting and extensively researched account, Peter Conradi - the celebrated author of "The King"s Speech" - offers an uncompromising portrayal of Europe"s royals and reveals the scandals, excesses, conflicts and interests hidden behind the pomp of ceremonial garb and the...

In a series of nine letters, the narrator tells his friend how he introduced Vera Nikolayevna, a married woman who had been forbidden as a child to read fiction and poetry, to the intellectual pleasures of Goethe"s masterpiece. Opening up in front of Vera"s eyes is not only the realm of...

Dante"s best friend and a major exponent of the dolce stil novo, Guido Cavalcanti has had a lasting influence upon Italian poetry and is best known to English readers through the essays, translations and adaptations of Ezra Pound. Born from the cultural ferment of thirteenth-century Florence...

Having left her job and boyfriend, thirty-year-old San cides to stay in a village on the Costa Blanca in order to take stock of her life and find a new direction. She befriends Karin and Fredrik, an elderly Norwegian couple, who provide her with stimulating company and take the place of the grandpa...

An unforgettable story of three young friends making their way in the world - told with warmth, music, clarity and simplicity: it speaks directly to the heart. Abandoned as a young child, the street urchin Kalu has, against all odds, carved out a life for himself in rural India. One day, a...

Auguste Escoffier (1846-1935) was the unparalleled French chef whose impact on restaurants and high cuisine is still with us. He was also a complicated man-kind yet imperious, food obsessed yet rarely hungry, capable of great passion and inscrutable reserve. In this lushly imagined new novel...