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  • French Cooking for Two

    Seasons of Friendship

    by Michele Roberts ...
    Friendship has its own distinctive seasons, constantly changing and evolving, just as the years revolve. Cooking for a friend, you can show your affection in a direct, practical way. Composing a menu to suit or intrigue a particular beloved person, you are demonstrating how well you understand and appreciate them. This book is divided into three overlapping seasons, following the 1929 classic La ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD

  • French Cooking for One

    by Michele Roberts ...
    A unique work of literary and culinary joie de vivre, part food memoir, part recipe book, French Cooking for One is a personal and quirky take on Edouard de Pomiane's classic. With over 160 recipes, including a majority of vegetarian ones, with piquant storytelling and feminist wit, this is a working cook's book with French flair, bursting with life. French cuisine, classic though it is, still ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD

  • Ignorance

    A Novel

    by Michèle Roberts ...
    In every war there are stories that do not surface. You can try to forget, but sometimes the past can return: in the scent of a bar of soap, in whispers darting through a village after mass, in the color of an undelivered letter.Jeanne Nerin and Marie-Angèle Baudry grow up side by side in the Catholic village of Ste. Madeleine, but their worlds could not be more different. Marie-Angèle is the ... Read more

    $19.09 CAD

  • The Walworth Beauty

    by Michèle Roberts ...
    From the Booker-shortlisted author comes a sensuous, evocative novel exploring the lives of women in Victorian London, for fans of Sarah Waters, Emma Donoghue and Kate Atkinson2011: When Madeleine loses her job as a lecturer, she decides to leave her riverside flat in cobbled Stew Lane, where history never feels far away, and move to Apricot Place. Yet here too, in this quiet Walworth cul-de-sac, ... Read more

    $20.79 CAD

  • Paper Houses

    A Memoir of the 70s and Beyond

    by Michele Roberts ...
    Rebellion, revolution, experimental living, feminist communes, street theatre, radical magazines, love affairs - gay and straight - sex, drugs and rock and roll.Michèle Roberts, one of Britain's most talented and highly acclaimed novelists, now considers her own life, in this vibrant, powerful portrait of a time and place: alternative London of the 1970s and beyond. A fledgling writer taking a ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • Playing Sardines

    by Michele Roberts ...
    Playing Sardines - a game in the dark, a game about desire, about wanting, all whipped up in a tale about the erotic allure of recipes: a cook whose obsessive love turns hungry and dangerous; a fan who tries to get into a celebrity novelist's sheets; a fanatical dieter and maker of lists working out how to deal with a husband who snores; a faddy eater thrown off-course by a miracle; a child greedy ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • The New Strategic Thinking

    by Michel Robert ...
    Bestselling author Michel Robert gives you his trademark pure and simple rules for developing solid business strategiesIn this anticipated follow-up to his previous bestsellers, management expert Michel Robert unveils his practical and proven methodology for you to plan and implement effective corporate strategies. Featuring a detailed explanation of how Robert used his approach to turn around ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD

  • On Food, Sex And God

    On Inspiration and Writing

    by Michele Roberts ...
    Food, sex and God' is what Michèle Roberts answers when strangers ask what she writes about, and indeed, she has made these subjects her own in her fiction and her poetry. Now we see that extended to non-fiction in this collection of essays, reviews and articles. Ranging over people and places, writing and imagination, books, spirituality, art and food, Roberts shows herself to be a perceptive and ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Mud

    Stories of Sex and Love

    by Michele Roberts ...
    Chosen as a Fiction Book of the Year in the Daily Telegraph by Maggie O'FarrellIn this witty and subversive collection of stories, Michèle Roberts explores women's desires, memories and loves as only she can. A jilted woman skirts the edges of time and place as she walks the streets of London at night; another returns to the scene of her honeymoon without her husband; a wife takes apt revenge on ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • The Looking Glass

    by Michele Roberts ...
    In her place as maid to Madame Patin in the cafe next to the sea, orphan Genevieve becomes the breathless audience for her mistress's alarming folk stories, beginning with the one about the mermaid - the beauty who is also a monster - who must be killed. Genevieve happily falls into the patterns and ways of Madame Patin and contentedly cooks, cleans, gardens and serves the customers alongside her. ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Reader, I Married Him

    by Michele Roberts ...
    Who is Aurora? Every time she becomes a new Mrs (three times when we last counted) she becomes a new woman. Her stepmother thinks Aurora is impractical, romantic and dreamy. The fact that she gets married so often only goes to prove it. 'Every woman owes it to herself to get married once, but you don't have to make a habit of it.'But now, all alone. . . ?'Aurora, given the chance to be true to ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • Season of Infamy

    A Diary of War and Occupation, 1939-1945

    by Charles Rist ...
    Translated by Michele McKay Aynesworth ...
    "A valuable account of what one significant and perceptive Frenchman experienced during the protracted disgrace of France as a vassal state of Nazi Germany." — Publishers WeeklyIn 1939, the 65-year-old French political economist Charles Rist was serving as advisor to the French government and consultant to the international banking and business world. As France anxiously awaited a German invasion, ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus