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.
Shantytown – César Aira
Fall forward into one of the stranger stories you’ll encounter this year – or any other. Maxi, a young man from the middle classes of...
The Nature of Blood – Caryl Phillips
A novel that includes displaced persons, new countries, war, Cyprus, the OED, Venice, Blood Libel and Othello – this should be sweet. So why does...
Darkness at Noon – Arthur Koestler
One man goes against the system he helped create and the results are not encouraging. Koestler fictionalizes the Moscow Show Trials of the 1930s, where...
Hygiene and the Assassin – Amélie Nothomb
Click to buy Hygiene and the Assassin Morbidly obese misery of a writer – and Nobel Laureate (topical) – more than...
Truth or Beauty – David Orrell
From particle physics to market predictions, we thought scientists, right or wrong, traded in the world of facts. What we did not expect is that...
Demons (aka The Possessed) – Fyodor Dostoevsky
Everything’s more or less normal in the little town of N until Piotr Stepanovich and his equally psychopathic sidekick, Nikolai Stavrogin, come back from abroad....
The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop. – Robert Coover
Like a precocious fireballer at top of the prospect rankings ... a kid who has shown so much promise and from whom so much is...
The Devil – Leo Tolstoy
St Matthew is going to poke out your eyes. Or some such. After what seemed like a millennium of exile from the Motherland, we go...
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