Red Dream

Literature & Fiction

Brooks, Victoria

Genre Fiction

Greatest Escapes.Com Pub

Great authors have always left their mark on their landscapes. In Famous Faces, Famous Places &amp; Famous Food, Victoria Brooks travels the planet in search of them, illuminating their fascinating lives with the exotic, sometimes erotic ink of their chosen lands. This collection of biographical and culinary wanderlust includes her personal experience with the amazing and lively Arthur C. Clarke in terrorist-torn Sri Lanka, her heart-wrenching visit with the late literary beacon Paul Bowles in seedy Tangier, and a visit with mystery writer and steeplechaser Dick Francis in the banker's haven of Grand Cayman. 
When her subjects are already taken by time, she evokes their stories through real people and places: escapist Graham Greene and a little street urchin in Saigon; Ian Fleming and Noel Coward's seduction by that siren island, Jamaica; Hemingway's decadent rum-splashed Havana; John P. Marquand's polite yet dangerous Mr. Moto's China; a tourist take on Robert James Waller's "Puerto Vallarta Squeeze," and more. Each of these famous people has left a legacy to the reader and a windfall to the traveler. 
Incorporated in this eminently readable treat is a feast of food and drink recipes collected from the modern kitchens of landmark restaurants, bars, and historic hotels. Readers can chat with Sir Arthur C. Clarke about love and war, then sit with him at the oldest hostelry west of the Nile while dining on Grilled Fillet of Lamb and sipping a Colombo Cool Breeze. Fascinating chitchat about Papa Hemingway's peccadilloes accompanies Drunken Crab. 
The lush photographs evoke the scene further. Marvel over Fidel Castro, the handsome mountain guerilla, as well as Habana Viejo's peeling pastel and charming little Fidels. Toss in Noel Coward with our favorite 007, Sean Connery. Saigon's steamy streets. Dick Francis's seaside sunset. 
A brilliant introduction both to the authors and to their landscape through their lives and the setting of their books.

Famous Faces Famous Places Famous Food

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

About the Author\nVictoria Brooks is a writer and researcher. She is also Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Westminster, London, UK. She is author of Fucking Law: The Search for Her Sexual Ethics (2019).\nThe figure of the mistress is undoubtedly controversial. She provokes intense reactions, ranging from fear, to disgust and revulsion, to excitement and titillation, to sadness and perhaps to some, love. The mistress is conventionally depicted as a threat to moral living and someone whose sexuality is considered defective and toxic. Of course, she is a woman that you would not have as your friend, and certainly not your wife, since her ethical sense, if she even has one, is dubious at best. This book subverts these traditional judgements and offers an unflinching look at the lived experience of the mistress. Here she is recast as a potentially loving, free, intimate 'other' woman.\nDrawing upon feminist philosophy, contemporary sexual ethics and the current cultural moment of #MeToo, Mistress Ethics moves beyond a narrative of infidelity, conventional judgment, the safeguarding of monogamy and conventional heterosex that permeates our society. It asks what happens when we let go of our insecurities, judgments and moralistic relationship philosophies and opt, instead, for an ethics of kindness. This kindness – underpinned by engaging with those deemed 'other' and learning from mistresses, both straight and queer – will teach us new ways of thinking about ethics and sex, and reveal how we have better sex, and how we can be better to each other.

Mistress Ethics: On the Virtues of Sexual Kindness

Self-Help

Relationships

Bloomsbury Academic

When you get alone with God, what’s your frame of mind? Do you bring Him your agenda––requests for favor and rescue and a list of people you want to influence? What if you first sought to simply love Him? What if you set aside the requests, opened your heart, and freely ministered to Him? 
It would profoundly change your life, says author Victoria Brooks. The Father’s heart would leap, and He would welcome you to an ever-deepening love and intimacy. With wisdom and passion, she invites you to the joy of Delighting God.

Delighting God: The Secret to Making the Father's Heart Leap

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

Pinon Pr

Fucking Law is an urgent call for everyone, not just academics and researchers, to find inventive ways to question the ethics of sexuality. Since a sex life is full of so many diverse moments of joy and suffering, for each and everybody, the book attempts to bridge a gap between philosophical and non-philosophical questioning. Central to the book is the reality that everyone can challenge the ethics and laws of sexuality and ask questions, even where they seem frightening, or worse, even when we are told not to – by institutions and lovers alike. Non-philosophical and accessible, Fucking Law is risky, explicit and provocative as it bridges the gap between academic and every-day questioning of sexual encounters.

Fucking Law: The Search For Her Sexual Ethics

Zero Books

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