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A Paris Christmas: An Improbable Tale of Good Food and True Love by Baxter, John
19.99 AUD
Category: Travel
A Paris Christmas is the charming, funny and improbable tale of how a man who was raised on white bread - and didn't speak a word of French - unexpectedly ended up with the sacred duty of preparing the Christmas dinner for a venerable Parisian family. Having fallen in love with a French woman and impuls ...Show more
A Year in Paris: Season-By-Season in the City of Light by John Baxter
32.99 AUD
Category: Travel | Reading Level: 4
From the incomparable John Baxter, the bestselling author of The Most Beautiful Walk in the World, a sumptuous and definitive portrait of Paris through the seasons, highlighting the unique tastes, sights, and changing personality of the city in spring, summer, fall, and winter. When the common people o ...Show more
Cooking for Claudine: How I Cooked My Way into the Heart of a Formidable French Family by John Baxter
22.99 AUD
Category: Food Cooking Wine
For John Baxter - acclaimed film critic and food lover - that moment came when he fell in love with a French woman and impulsively moved to Paris to marry her. As a test of his love, his sceptical in-laws charged him with cooking the next Christmas banquet. His year-long quest takes readers to the farth ...Show more
Eating Eternity: Food, Art and Literature in France by John Baxter
27.99 AUD
Category: Travel
"Show me another pleasure like dinner which comes every day and lasts an hour," wrote Talleyrand. That Napoleon's most gifted advisor should speak so highly of eating says much about the importance of food in French culture. From the crumbs of a madeleine dipped in tisane that inspired Marcel Proust to ...Show more
Five Nights in Paris: After Dark in the City of Light by John Baxter
24.99 AUD
Category: Travel
The preeminent expat writer on Paris and author of The Most Beautiful Walk in the World takes you on an unforgettable nocturnal stroll through five iconic Parisian neighborhoods and his own memories.John Baxter enchanted readers with his literary tour of Paris in The Most Beautiful Walk in the World. No ...Show more
Golden Moments of Paris: A Guide to the Paris of the 1920s by John Baxter
29.99 AUD
Category: Travel
Following the popular "Chronicles of Old Paris," in "The Golden Moments of Paris," John Baxter has uncovered more fascinating true stories about the characters that gave Paris its "character" in the years between World War I and World War II. Explore more about one of the world's most beautiful and love ...Show more
Happy Leons: LEON Happy Salads by Jane Baxter, John Vincent
24.99 AUD
Category: Food Cooking Wine | Series: Happy Leons Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Leon was founded on the twin principles that food can both taste good and do you good. In this book, Leon authors Jane Baxter and John Vincent bring together 100 recipes for fresh, vibrant, delicious salads that will have you feeling healthy and happy. Divided into chapters that include Classics, Natura ...Show more
Montmartre: Paris's Village of Art and Sin by John Baxter
22.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature | Series: Great Parisian Nieghborhoods | Reading Level: General Adult
In the second portrait of his series Great Parisian Neighborhoods, award-winning raconteur John Baxter leads us on a whirlwind tour of Montmartre, the hill-top village that fired the greatest achievements of modern art while also provoking bloody revolution and the sexual misbehavior that made Paris syn ...Show more
Montparnasse: Paris's District of Memory and Desire by John Baxter
22.99 AUD
Category: Travel | Series: Great Parisian Neighborhoods
In the third portrait of his series Great Parisian Neighborhoods, award-winning raconteur John Baxter takes readers on a dazzling excursion of Montparnasse. By the IACP Award-winning author of the national bestseller The Most Beautiful Walk in the World, MONTPARNASSE reveals the history and present del ...Show more
Paris at the End of the World: The City of Light During the Great War, 1914-1918 by John Baxter
24.99 AUD
Category: Travel | Series: P. S. Ser.
A preeminent writer on Paris, John Baxter brilliantly brings to life one of the most dramatic and fascinating periods in the city's history. From 1914 through 1918 the terrifying sounds of World War I could be heard from inside the French capital. For four years, Paris lived under constant threat of de ...Show more
Saint-Germain-Des-Pres: Paris's Rebel Quarter by John Baxter
22.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature | Series: Great Parisian Nieghborhoods | Reading Level: General Adult
From the bestselling author of The Most Beautiful Walk in the World comes this first book in an exciting new series of narrative "biographies" of Paris's great neighborhoods, beginning with Saint-Germain-des-Pres-the city's "rebel quarter," for centuries a center of artistic, intellectual, and revolutio ...Show more
The Most Beautiful Walk in the World: A Pedestrian in Paris by John Baxter
22.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature | Reading Level: very good
Thrust into the unlikely role of professional "literary walking tour" guide, an expat writer provides the most irresistibly witty and revealing tour of Paris in years.In this enchanting memoir, acclaimed author and long-time Paris resident John Baxter remembers his yearlong experience of giving "literar ...Show more