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Jonathan Safran Foer • Here I Am: A Novel
Classic Literature
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St. Antoine, the patron saint of truffle growers,
Peter Mayle • Encore Provence: New Adventures in the South of France (Vintage Departures)
John Sarrels
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One of my favourite blurb descriptions of a character is of Count Fosco in The Woman in White: ‘who has a taste for white mice, vanilla bonbons and poison’. No need for a ‘sinister’ at all there. Another is on Patrick Hamilton’s The Slaves of Solitude, which tells us that a young woman in a boarding house ‘pecks at spam and mashed potato by night’,
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