Sweet Honey, Bitter Lemons: Travels in Sicily on a Vespa by Matthew Fort
$30.00 NZD
Category: Italy- France-Spain
"At the age of twenty-six Matthew Fort first visited the island of Sicily. He and his brother arrived in 1973 expecting sun, sea and good food, but they were totally unprepared for the lifelong effect of this most extraordinary of islands. Thirty years later, older and a bit wiser but no less greedy Mat ...Show more
The Hotel on Place Vendome: Life, Death, and Betrayal at the Hotel Ritz in Paris by Tilar J. Mazzeo
$28.00 NZD
Category: Italy- France-Spain
Set against the backdrop of the Nazi occupation of World War II, The Hotel on Place Vendome is the captivating history of Paris's world-famous Hotel Ritz-a breathtaking tale of glamour, opulence, and celebrity; dangerous liaisons, espionage, and resistance-from Tilar J. Manzeo, the New York Times bestse ...Show more
Trieste by Jan Morris
$28.00 NZD
Category: Italy- France-Spain
Jan Morris has crafted a meditation on a most unusual city. James (as she was then) first visited Trieste as a soldier at the end of World War II. Since then, the city has come to represent her own life, with all its hopes, disillusionments, loves and memories. Paperback (B-Format)
Notes from the Cévennes - Half a Lifetime in Provincial France by Adam Thorpe
$25.00 NZD
Category: Italy- France-Spain
A charming memoir exploring the history, landscape and people of rural France, told through the eyes of a Parisian-born Englishman, writer and poet. Adam Thorpe's home for the past 25 years has been an old house in the Cévennes, a wild range of mountains in southern France. Prior to this, in an ancient ...Show more
The Wandering Vine by Nina Caplan
$25.00 NZD
Category: Italy- France-Spain
WINNER OF THE LOUIS ROEDERER INTERNATIONAL WINE BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2018SHORTLISTED FOR THE FORTNUM AND MASON AWARDS, 2019LONGLISTED FOR THE BIG BOOK PRIZE 2018'Wine is alive, ageing and changing, but it's also a triumph over death. These grapes should rot. Instead they ferment. What better magic pot ...Show more
Sicily, It's Not Quite Tuscany: And Other Revelations from a Mediterranean Sea Change by Shamus Sillar
$37.00 NZD
Category: Italy- France-Spain
Packed with history, culture, misadventure, and a little Mafioso action, the story of a newly married couple and the year they spent in Sicily Gill and I had dreamt of living in Italy for as long as we'd been together. This is the story of an Aussie couple who sought a Mediterranean Sea change only to ...Show more
Provence, 1970: M.F.K. Fisher, Julia Child, James Beard, and the Reinvention of American Taste by Luke Barr
$30.00 NZD
Category: Italy- France-Spain
Provence, 1970 is about a singular historic moment. In the winter of that year, more or less coincidentally, the iconic culinary figures James Beard, M.F.K. Fisher, Julia Child, Richard Olney, Simone Beck, and Judith Jones found themselves together in the South of France. They cooked and ate, talked and ...Show more