Peter Cox

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Peter Cox is the author of the UK No. 1 bestseller “Why You Don’t Need Meat” (US title "You Don't Need Meat") and with Linda McCartney author of the UK No. 1 bestseller and worldwide multi-million bestseller “Linda McCartney’s Home Cooking”. Together with his wife, Peggy Brusseau, he’s written many more national bestsellers. He founded Litopia way back when the internet was still a very nice place.
Litopia still is.

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Frost – Thomas Bernhard

Medical intern sent by boss to spy on a painter named of Strauch.  What the intern finds is the gaping wound of Lower Austria, which...
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Master Georgie – Beryl Bainbridge

Spare parts make up the engine of this rickety ride from here to there. One solipsistic young man from England leads friends and acquaintances to...
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The German Mujahid – Boualem Sansal

A history of one aspect of the Nazi genocide is brought to present day Parisian suburbs via a massacre in an Algerian village. Extremism, integration,...
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The Luzhin Defense – Vladimir Nabokov

1. e4 d6 2. d4 Nf6 3. Nc3 g6 4. Be3 Bg7 5. Qd2 c6 6. f3 b5 7. Nge2 Nbd7 8. Bh6 Bh6 9....
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – James Joyce

Can’t seem to shake the memoirs thing . . . This time it’s James Joyce writing about himself as the character Stephen Dedalus, a precocious,...
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Deaf Sentence – David Lodge

Author David Lodge stars as his thinly disguised protagonist, Old Man Bates, who is entering retirement, uselessness, and, worst of all, permanent deafness, in this...
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A Tale of Love and Darkness – Amos Oz

One of the world’s great authors goes back in time and space – from the Jerusalem of the 1940s to the Eastern Europe of the...
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Exiles – Michael J Arlen

The name Michael Arlen will mean nothing to most readers but Arlen was once the cream of the jazz age novelists, the envy of Hemingway,...
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Hadrian’s Memoirs – Marguerite Yourcenar

At the end of his days, sitting in his villa outside Rome, the Emperor Hadrian writes a long letter to his adopted son, and next...
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Measuring the World – Daniel Kehlmann

Gauss and Humboldt set off to the same destination in opposite directions and unfortunately this novel was written about it. Tedious. https://www.radiolitopia.com/enclosures/bb/bb_024.mp3

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