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  • Murder in the First-Class Carriage

    The First Victorian Railway Killing

    de Kate Colquhoun ...
    This story of a real-life Victorian mystery is a "meticulously researched true-crime account . . . its final revelation is a showstopper" ( The New York Times).In July 1864, Thomas Briggs was traveling home after visiting his niece and her husband for dinner. He boarded a first-class carriage on the 9:45 pm Hackney service of the North London railway. A short time later, two bank clerks entered ... Leer más

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  • Did She Kill Him?

    A Torrid True Story of Adultery, Arsenic, and Murder in Victorian England

    de Kate Colquhoun ...
    "An intriguing story told in the style of Thomas Hardy or George Eliot, if they traded in true crime" ( Kirkus Reviews).In the summer of 1889, young Southern belle Florence Maybrick stood trial for the alleged arsenic poisoning of her much older husband, Liverpool cotton merchant James Maybrick. The "Maybrick Mystery" had all the makings of a sensation: a pretty, flirtatious woman; resentful, ... Leer más

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  • Taste

    The Story of Britain through Its Cooking

    de Kate Colquhoun ...
    Written with a storyteller's flair and packed with astonishing facts, Taste is a sumptuous social history of Britain told through the development of its cooking. It encompasses royal feasts and street food, the skinning of eels and the making of strawberry jelly, mixing tales of culinary stars with those of the invisible hordes cooking in kitchens across the land. Beginning before Roman times, the ... Leer más

    $20.99 USD

  • A Thing in Disguise

    The Visionary Life of Joseph Paxton (Text Only)

    de Kate Colquhoun ...
    A biography of an unsung Victorian hero, Joseph Paxton was the man behind the garden design at Chatsworth and the Crystal Palace at the Great Exhibition of 1851.The Victorians heralded a new era of creativity, a revolutionary fervour seizing all forms of design. Joseph Paxton was a leading light of this movement. Head Gardener at Chatsworth House by the age of twenty-three, encouraged by the sixth ... Leer más

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  • Au Revoir to All That

    Food, Wine, and the End of France

    de Michael Steinberger ...
    France is in a rut, and so is French cuisine. Twenty-five years ago it was hard to have a bad meal in France; now, in some cities and towns, it is a challenge to find a good one. For the first time in the annals of modern cuisine, the most influential chefs and the most talked-about restaurants in the world are not French. Within France, large segments of the wine industry are in crisis, cherished ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • Beaten, Seared, and Sauced

    On Becoming a Chef at the Culinary Institute of America

    de Jonathan Dixon ...
    Millions of people fantasize about leaving their old lives behind, enrolling in cooking school, and training to become a chef. But for those who make the decision, the difference between the dream and reality can be gigantic—especially at the top cooking school in the country. For the first time in the Culinary Institute of America’s history, a book will give readers the firsthand experience of ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

  • How I Learned To Cook

    Culinary Educations from the World's Greatest Chefs

    de Kimberly Witherspoon, Peter Meehan ...
    Before he was a top chef, Tom Colicchio learned to love cooking when he was still slinging burgers at a poolside snack bar. Barbara Lynch tells the story of lying her way into her first chef's job and then needing to cook her way out of trouble in the galley kitchen of a ship at sea. Stories of mentorship abound: Rick Bayless tells the story of finally working with Julia Child, his childhood hero; ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

  • Lethal Witness

    Sir Bernard Spilsbury, Honorary Pathologist

    de Rose ...
    The man who brought forensic pathology out of the laboratorySir Bernard Spilsbury was an early-twentieth-century British forensic pathologist who gained fame by testifying in classic murder cases, beginning in 1910 with the Dr. Hawley Harvey Crippen trial. His expert court testimony he identified Crippen's victim by detailed microscopic study of a scar convinced the lay jury of Crippen's guilt ... Leer más

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  • Beyond Reason

    The True Story of a Shocking Double Murder

    de Ken Englade ...
    The Woman: She was a beautiful, gifted descendant of Lady Astor. But Elizabeth Haysom was also a spoiled, willful daughter of privilege. The Lover: He was the brilliant young son of a German diplomat. But his love for Elizabeth would draw Jens Soering into a web of madness and murder. The Murder: When Elizabeth's parents were found savagely butchered in their elegant Virginia country home, she and ... Leer más

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  • The Bolter

    de Frances Osborne ...
    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • AN O, THE OPRAH MAGAZINE #1 TERRIFIC READ • In an age of bolters—women who broke the rules and fled their marriages—one woman was the most celebrated of them all.• “Even today Lady Idina Sackville could get tongues wagging."—NPR"Taylor Swift might count Lady Sackville among her muses. Swift’s fans...have linked Idina to The Bolter, a song on the ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • BEATRICE The Cadbury Heiress Who Gave Away Her Fortune

    de Fiona Joseph ...
    LONGLISTED IN THE INTERNATIONAL RUBERY BOOK AWARD 2012"...meticulously researched and written in a lively fashion...really engages us with the subject and [Beatrice's] wider family and times." Liz Broomfield, Libro Blog book“Not only sheds new light on a fascinating history but is a very good read as well.” Daniela Hooghiemstra, Biographer of Kees Boeke“Its clear literary style and dramatic ... Leer más

    $9.38 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Kaiser Wilhelm II

    Germany's Last Emperor

    de John Kiste ...
    Drawing on a wide range of contemporary sources, this biography examines the complex personality of Germany's last emperor. Born in 1859, the eldest grandchild of Queen Victoria, Prince Wilhelm was torn between two cultures - that of the Prussian Junker and that of the English liberal gentleman. ... Leer más

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