‘This is very pleasant.’” Be not deceived, there is nothing pleasant about this delicious novel. Independently published variations on the novel include The Gay Gatsby, by B.A. I could hear the not-quite subliminal tinkling of bubbles in our crystal champagne flutes. The illustrator Adam Simpson has created extensive art for a new edition (Black Dog & Leventhal). The Paris Library by Janet Skeslien Charles. Here he is hosting a barbecue for his hapless victims: “A drop of basting juices fell from the sea bass and spluttered on the white charcoals. He warns early on that this “is not a conventional cookbook”. What he later terms his “gastro-historico-psycho-autobiographico-anthropico-philosophic lucubrations” are organised into seasonal menus. The story sees diabolical narrator Tarquin (not his real name) – an anglophobe, francophile, inveterate snob and worse – driving from England to his house in Provence, with diversions through the cuisines of Normandy and Brittany. Go on a literary French road trip with this black satire by the former Observer restaurant critic. A Provençal home with a view of Les Dentelles.
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