Toast

Monday, September 1st, 2008 by Book Guy | No Comments »

Toast
Britain’s most popular cook describes his personal culinary odyssey, from dangerous encounters with his mother’s weevil-seasoned cakes to being harangued by readers who think he deliberately styles Yorkshire puddings to look like a woman’s private parts.

Hilarious, irreverent and mouthwatering, TOAST captures thirty years of British cooking and the recipes that we have grown up with since the days when a grilled grapefruit was the last word in dinner party chic. Everyone has gorged on cake mix, endured disastrous dinner parties, and put up with the loved one who can only ever produce burnt toast. Nigel Slater is no different. Hair-raising accounts of hotels modeled on Fawlty Towers, the mystery of the disappearing condom and the seafood cocktail, and many more, take readers behind the scenes of British cuisine to reveal the unlikely origins of our foremost cook.

Reviews

• ‘Nigel is a bloody genius.’ Jamie Oliver
• ‘The greatest cookery writer of them all.’ Guardian
• ‘The pick of the bunch … bubbling with ideas, suggestions, hints and personal opinions that genuinely help you to make your own mind up about how and what to cook.’ The Times
• ‘He’s a genius.’ Matthew Fort, Guardian
• ‘Slater remains the reigning champion, a writer incapable of uninspiring sentences.’ Daily Express
• ‘No one writes more temptingly about food.’ Independent
• ‘My kitchen god’ Red

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Author: Nigel Slater
Narrator: Nigel Slater
ISBN: 000721958x
Download Price: $17.49

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Tags: British Cuisine, Burnt Toast, Cake Mix, Cookery Writer, Culinary Odyssey, Daily Express, Dangerous Encounters, Dinner Parties, Dinner Party, Fawlty Towers, Harpercollins Publishers, Jamie Oliver, Kitchen God, Last Word, Nigel Slater, Private Parts, Rsquo, Seafood Cocktail, Weevil, Yorkshire Puddings

John Bull’s Other Island

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008 by Book Guy | No Comments »

John Bull’s Other Island

When Thomas Broadbent, an Englishman, visits Ireland for the first time, he is accompanied by his friend Larry Doyle, an Irishman who is returning to his homeland after being away for many years.

Through the two men’s differing responses to the country and also the Irish people’s reactions to their two visitors, Shaw is able to explore the misunderstandings and misconceptions that have characterised relations between England and Ireland for centuries.

According to Shaw, ‘John Bull’s Other Island’ was written in 1904 at the request of W.B.Yeats ‘as a patriotic contribution to the repertory of the Irish Literary Theatre’, but when Mr Yeats read the script he rejected it, claiming that it was beyond the resources of the Abbey Theatre.

In fact, for Yeats, a play which was ‘uncongenial to the whole spirit of the neo-Gaelic movement’ must have made uncomfortable reading, and for us today, in the light of all that has happened in the intervening years, the issues raised by the play have lost none of their urgency.

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Author: George Bernard Shaw
Narrator: Christopher Benjamin, Patrick Duggan and cast
ISBN: 0-00-712480-5
Download Price: $13.25

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Tags: Abbey Theatre, Author George, Bernard Shaw, Christopher Benjamin, Duggan, Englishman, Friend Larry, George Bernard Shaw, Harpercollins Publishers, Irish Literary Theatre, Irish People, Irishman, Larry Doyle, Misconceptions, Misunderstandings, Narrator, Repertory, Thomas Broadbent, Urgency, W B Yeats

HMS Ulysses

Sunday, June 22nd, 2008 by Book Guy | No Comments »

HMS Ulysses

The story of men who rose to heroism, and then to something greater, HMS Ulysses takes its place alongside The Caine Mutiny and The Cruel Sea as one of the classic novels of the navy at war.

It is the compelling story of Convoy FR77 to Murmansk – a voyage that pushes men to the limits of human endurance, crippled by enemy attack and the bitter cold of the Arctic.

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Author: Alistair MacLean
Narrator: Denis Quilley
ISBN: 0007257511
Download Price: $19.25

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Tags: Alistair Maclean, Bitter Cold, Caine Mutiny, Classic Novels, Convoy, Cruel Sea, Denis Quilley, Enemy Attack, Harpercollins Publishers, Heroism, Hms, Hms Ulysses, Human Endurance, Narrator, Navy

Murder is Easy

Thursday, May 8th, 2008 by Book Guy | No Comments »

Murder is Easy

Luke Fitzwilliam could not believe Miss Pinkerton’s wild allegation that a multiple murderer was at work in the quiet English village of Wychwood - or her speculation that the local doctor was next in line.

But within hours, Miss Pinkerton had been killed in a hit-and-run car accident. Mere coincidence? Luke was inclined to think so - until he read in The Times of the unexpected demise of Dr Humbleby…

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Author: Agatha Christie
Narrator: Hugh Fraser
ISBN: 0007257333
Download Price: $17.49

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Tags: Agatha Christie, Allegation, Car Accident, Coincidence, Fitzwilliam, Harpercollins Publishers, Hugh Fraser, Local Doctor, Miss Pinkerton, Murderer, Narrator, Speculation, Unexpected Demise, Wychwood

Miss Marple’s Final Cases

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008 by Book Guy | No Comments »

First, the mystery man in the church with a bullet-wound… then, the riddle of a dead man’s buried treasure… the curious conduct of a caretaker after a fatal riding accident… the corpse and a tape-measure… the girl framed for theft… and the suspect accused of stabbing his wife with a dagger.

Six gripping cases with one thing in common - the astonishing deductive powers of Miss Marple.

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Author: Agatha Christie
Narrator: Joan Hickson
ISBN: 000725640X
Download Price: $17.49 Discover this audio book

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Tags: Agatha Christie, Buried Treasure, Caretaker, Corpse, Curious Conduct, Dagger, Dead Man, Harpercollins Publishers, Joan Hickson, Miss Marple, Mystery Man, Narrator, Publisher, Riddle, Tape Measure