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.
A True Novel – Minae Mizumura
A novel that says it’s based on Wuthering Heights is taking a risk – because Wuthering Heights is a crazy effective soporific. But the further...
American Pastoral – Philip Roth
Feel like making glove?? That's not a typo. This week we discuss perhaps the best passage in any of Philip Roth's novels, the 'glovemaking scene'...
Satan in Goray – Isaac Bashevis Singer
The Messiah is coming! His arrival is imminent! That’s the bad news. The good news is his arrival and social schedule are narrated with a...
Seven Days in the Art World – Sarah Thornton
'They believe what they say in the moment they say it.' And then the moment is gone, and someone's stuck with a desiccated horse's head or...
A Heart So White – Javier Marías
Did we like this novel? What does it mean to like? What is our past, really, if we continue to relive it? And relieve it?...
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge – Rainer Maria Rilke
Enter the eminently other world of Malte Laurids Brigge – and don't plan on coming back in one piece. The big window shatters and the...
The Blue Fox – Sjón
Things are not what they appear to be, and not even what they appear later to be. Foxes are animals that cannot be trusted, and...
The Man Who Made Vermeers – Jonathan Lopez
Is there anything better than the story of a master forger? If there is, I don't know it. This time we take a trip to...
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