An illustrated collection of authentic recipes from the Provence region of France, an area renowned for its herbs and vegetables. Forbes's book is punctuated by her observations, conversations and local gossip. The author also wrote "A Table in Tuscany".

A Table in Provence: Classic Recipes from the South of France

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

FORBES, Leslie

Main Courses & Side Dishes

Penguin

The mention of Tuscany evokes vivid images: sinuous dark cypresses leading to grand renaissance palaces, vineyards disappearing into a hazy horizon, dusty tracks through medieval villages that end in hilltop olive groves, earthenware jugs overflowing with good red wine, plates of tender home made pasta, and markets overflowing with bright-coloured vegetables. Leslie Forbes, artist and cook, set off for Tuscany last year, sketchbook and pencil in one hand and knife and fork in the other. She was captivated by the rich and diverse landscape and, in particular, the stupendous food. Her sharp eyes and appetite led her to canintas, bars, wayside stalls, markets, farmhouses, shops and restaurants- wherever good food and wine were to be found.

A Table in Tuscany: Classic Recipes from the Heart of Italy

Penguin Group USA

Waking Raphael

Weidenfeld & Nicolson, Limited

When Claire Fleetwood, a young American forensic photographer, inherits a large house and garden in London's East End from relatives she never knew she had, she imagines it will be a slice of the English dream. But after the brutal murder of her best friend Sally Rivers, Claire learns that her inheritance involves more than she wanted or bargained for. Claire joins a scientific expedition led by her cousin Jack Ironstone, one of the men she suspects of being responsible for Sally's murder. Her journey leads from Jack the Ripper's Whitechapel to the Fleetwoods' murky roots in India's opium trade and the wild 'paradise' valleys of Tibet. It parallels a route taken during Britain's great 19th-century triangulation of the Himalayas by Claire's distant relative Magda Ironstone and a mysterious Indian botanist. As Claire reconstructs a triangular love affair she imagines took place, the contemporary story is overtaken to deadly effect by Magda's.

Fish, Blood & Bone

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Weidenfeld &Nicholson

A Taste of Tuscany: Classic Recipes from the Heart of Italy

A taste of Tuscany: Classic recipes from the heart of Italy

Regional & International

Little,Brown

A disturbing letter from her sister, married to a famed Bombay film director, draws London journalist Rosalind Bengal back to her native India, where a series of strange and chaotic events threatens her life and draws her back into the dark patterns of her lost past. A first novel. 100,000 first printing.

Bombay Ice: A Novel

Farrar. Straus & Giroux

When American forensic photographer Claire Fleetwood inherits a large house and garden in London from relatives she never knew she had, she imagines her own English dream, until her best friend is brutally murdered and she learns that her inheritance involves more than she wanted or bargained for. 25,000 first printing.

Fish, Blood, and Bone

United States

A dazzling novel of murder and monsoons, of poison and seduction, of long-buried secrets and lethal betrayals... Rosalind Benegal is a BBC correspondent who has spent years distancing herself from surreal memories of a childhood spent in India. But lately, her long-lost sister, Miranda, has taken to sending Rosalind cryptic postcards all the way from Bombay. In swirling script, Miranda claims she's being followed by a eunuch. She alludes to her childhood fear of water. She hints that her husband may have murdered his first wife. Miranda's dizzying missives compel Rosalind to do what she would never do on her own...return to the land of her birth, to the country that still haunts her after twenty years abroad. Part literary thriller, part eloquent meditation on everything from the secret art of alchemy to the hidden lives of gangsters, artists, con men, transvestites, and serial killers, Bombay Ice is rich with the heady atmosphere of India. It is an extraordinarily intelligent debut that captures the very essence of an exotic and fabled land.

Bantam]

La Muta, "the mute woman." Amidst a country rocked by scandal and corruption, inhabitants of the idyllic city of Urbino, Italy, birthplace of Raphael, are more concerned with a sudden outbreak of miracles than with politics. But what unspeakable secret lies hidden in Raphael's enigmatic painting? Its restoration will drive a living mute to a shocking act of violence and spark an investigation into a nearly forgotten war crime and a series of events that will shatter the silence gripping this community forever. Both a mesmerizing thriller and a passionate exploration of the power of truth to effect reconciliation and restore faith, Waking Raphael spins a tantalizing web of silence and lies to recreate an Italy where the romantic and the violent, the comic and the tragic, are spellbindingly interwoven.

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A Table in Provence: Classic Recipes from the South of France

A Table in Tuscany: Classic Recipes from the Heart of Italy

Waking Raphael

Fish, Blood & Bone

Fish, Blood & Bone

A taste of Tuscany: Classic recipes from the heart of Italy

Bombay Ice: A Novel

Fish, Blood, and Bone

Bombay Ice: A Novel

Waking Raphael