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Category Archives: Non fiction
Lessons for Young Artists by David Gentleman (Penguin)
“What is drawing for? Why are we tempted to do it at all?” ONE could ask also ask why it is that one artist becomes better known than another? David Gentleman is less known than many contemporaries, less valued in … Continue reading
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Tagged art, david gentleman, gift, lessons in drawing, stamp design
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Portrait of an Oyster by Andreas Ammer (Greystone)
Andreas Ammer might have benefited from reading my own Oyster a Gastronomic history before embarking on his operatic ode to the world’s oldest and most iconic shellfish. He does, I admit, show a masterly, gynaecological, Germanic interest in the sex … Continue reading
I Regret Almost Everything by Keith McNally (Simon & Schuster)
“In early August 2018, I tried to commit suicide.” IN a pompous review the Guardian suggested this memoir would have benefited from a bit of editing. That would have been a mistake. The beauty here is the raw courage to … Continue reading
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Tagged arfnold bennet, balthazar, jaonathan miller, keith mcnally, new york restaurants
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Cooking by Jeremy Lee (Fourth Estate)
“The simple truth I’ve learned from a lifetime of cooking is that good food is honed from fine ingredients”. THAT opening sentence may not sound so radical, so revolutionary but it is a statement of courage and intent, the kernel … Continue reading
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Tagged cooking, modern british cooking, quo vadis
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Ireland’s Green Larder by Margaret Hickey (Unbound) “The island of Ireland is so small you can drive across it in a few hours…yet it became the cradle of literature, music and dance, of politicians and soldiers, of philosophers and saints, … Continue reading
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Tagged dorothy hartley, margaret hickey, spailpins, unbound
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The Value of Everything by Mariana Mazzucato (Penguin)
“The barbarous gold barons – they did not find the gold, they did not mine the gold, they did not mill the gold, but by some weird alchemy all the gold belonged to them.” THE quote is from 1929, Big … Continue reading
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Tagged economics, marianna mazzucato, psycho-intellectual, the value of everything
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Talking to my daughter, a brief history of capitalism by Yanis Varoufakis (Vintage)
“All babies are born naked, but soon some are dressed in expensive clothes bought at the best boutiques while the majority wear rags” THE very best way to write a book is to sit down on an idyllic Greek island … Continue reading
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Tagged capitalism, markets, money, yanis varoufakis
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The Order of the Day by Eric Vuillard (Picador)
“The sun is a cold star. Its heart, spines of ice. Its light unforgiving.” FROM this simple, fairy tale short opening, you may deduce that things we know are not all they seem. Let us open up the catastrophe that … Continue reading
The vegetarian option by Simon Hopkinson (Quadrille)
“One evening in the late summer of 2007, and probably a Sunday, I found myself rummaging around in the salad drawer of my fridge.” I AM alarmed to see the historian Simon Schama pronouncing on the new reprint of MFK … Continue reading
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Tagged best cookery books, mfk fisher, simon hopkinson, vegetarian
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21 lessons for the 21st century by Yuval Noah Harari (Jonathan Cape)
“In a world deluged by irrelevant information, clarity is power” YUVAL – after three books I feel we are on first person terms – has a political yardstick of communism, liberalism and fascism, which is fair enough, although as he … Continue reading
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