Complete Hip and Thigh Diet

Table Talk

Spisovatel: Nimmo Derek, Robson Books 1990
Katalogové číslo: H537

Actor Derek Nimmo has starred in such TV programmes as "Hell's Bells" and "Oh Brother", and is renowned as a writer and producer. This book is a collection of Nimmo's stories, recipes, snatches of after-dinner speaking and table talk of every kind. Also included are anecdotes of disastrous dinners, amusing glances at etiquette down the ages, stories of some of the great raconteurs and restaurateurs of the past and revealing insights into our perceptions and appreciations of the varied delights of food and drink. From the author of "Not in Front of the Servants", "Oh, Come on All Ye Faithful", "Up Mount Everest Without a Paddle" and "The Actress Said to the Bishop".... tvrdá väzba, obal, väčší formát, v angličtine, 225 strán

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Phoenix café

Spisovatel: Jones G., Vista 1997
Katalogové číslo: D2115

Third volume of the trilogy (White Queen, 1993; North Wind, 1996) about the exploitation of Earth by baboon-like, hermaphrodite, serially immortal aliens. Catherine is a human/alien hybrid. Though biologically human, her father is the influential Aleutian, Lord Maitri; mentally, Catherine herself the reincarnation of Clavel, the Aleutian Third Captain from the First Expedition. Now, after 300 years, the Aleutians are preparing to leave, and a human conspiracy, led by Misha Connelly and his friends at the Phoenix Cafe, are plotting against them. Catherine feels guilty for the rape she committed as Clavel, so she allows Misha to abuse and manipulate her. Then the Americans, who've permitted no contact with the Aleutians, prepare to receive a trade delegation. Maitri lies dying. Catherine discovers that Misha's plotters have been preparing ghastly biological weapons to use against the Aleutians, in retaliation for the aliens' refusal to share their advanced technology-though it turns out that they've developed the technology independently anyway. The biological weapons are for one human faction to use against another. Maitri dies, Catherine gets some explanations for her strange experiences, and the Aleutians depart. Wonderful aliens, unpleasant gender conflicts, heavy-handed metaphors, imperceptible plot: It all adds up to a churning, unsatisfying, rather unwieldy wrapup...v angličtine, brožovaná, výborný stav, 300 strán

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