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A Paris Christmas: An Improbable Tale of Good Food and True Love by Baxter, John
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
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
Chronicles of Old Paris by John Baxter
$27.99 AUD
Category: Travel
Discover one of the world's most fascinating and beautiful cities through twenty-nine dramatic true stories spanning the rich history of Paris. From the headless walk of Saint Denis to the seances of the Surrealists, experience two thousand years of history as John Baxter leads eight walking tours follo ...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
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
Paris at the End of the World: The City of Light During the Great War, 1914-1918 by John Baxter
$24.99 AUD
Category: History | 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 | 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 Inner Man : The Life of J.G. Ballard by John Baxter
$50.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
To many people, J.G. Ballard will always be the schoolboy in Steven Spielberg's movie Empire of the Sun, struggling to survive as an internee of the Japanese during World War II. Others remember him as the author of Crash, a meditation on the eroticism of the automobile and the liebstod of the car cra ...Show more
The Most Beautiful Walk in the World: A Pedestrian in Paris by John Baxter
$19.99 AUD
Category: Travel | 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
The Perfect Meal: In Search of the Lost Tastes of France by John Baxter
$19.99 AUD
Category: Food & Cooking | Series: P. S. Ser.
IACP Cookbook Award Winner (Culinary Travel) John Baxter's The Perfect Meal is part grand tour of France, part history of French cuisine, taking readers on a journey to discover and savor some of the world's great cultural achievements before they disappear completely. Some of the most revered and com ...Show more
We'll Always Have Paris by John Baxter
$24.95 AUD
Category: Travel
For more than a century, Americans and Britons have been arriving hopefully in Paris. Most were tourists, but a significant number had other motives, ranging from learning to paint or write, to finding a rich husband; from escaping racism and politics to gaining a sexual education. John Baxter arrived b ...Show more
We'll Always Have Paris : Sex and Love in the City of Light by John Baxter
$49.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks | Reading Level: very good
For more than a century, Americans and Britons have been arriving hopefully in Paris. Most were tourists, but a significant number had other motives, ranging from learning to paint or write, to finding a rich husband; from escaping racism and politics to gaining a sexual education. John Baxter arrived b ...Show more
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