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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Latest Writings from Peter Cox

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Netanya by Dror Burstein

Is it a novel? Memoirs? A book of geology? Anthopology? Marine Biology? Yes yes yes.
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Human Parts by Orly Castel-Bloom

Permanent winter in a desert climate, a dentist with no face, a woman finding material wealth in the midst of poverty, a governmental minister whose...
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Almost Dead by Assaf Gavron

The man who keeps surviving terrorist attacks and the person who is determined to finish him off once and for all square off in this...
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Dancing Arabs by Sayed Kashua

A heavyweight tale in featherweight prose. A beautiful story about a boy who slips away into adulthood. A ghost story about a person who’s still...
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A Star Called Henry – Roddy Doyle

Part One of the Doyle’s The Last Roundup charts the raising, rising and falling of Henry Smart, scamp of Dublin, caught up in the machine...
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Three Deaths – Josip Novakovich

A sliver of a book unfolds as a triptych, brilliant and beautiful, the subtlest of writing making the greatest of waves. Featuring Walter Benjamin.
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Some Do Not . . . – Ford Madox Ford

Somebody please hand me a glossary of terrible non-puns from the 1910s, although no post-rationalisation is going to save this dip into the addled mind...
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Regeneration – Pat Barker

Part one of Pat Barker’s justly renowned trilogy about WWI (re)introduces us to Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Graves, Wilfred Owen, Dr William Rivers and Billy Prior...
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My Brilliant Friend – Elena Ferrante

Elena is friends with Lila, whom hurts Elena in all kinds of ways that Elena finds fascinating, and painful. Slums, slums, slums, creepy older men,...
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School of Velocity – Eric Beck Rubin

Jan and Dirk were inseparable as teenagers, right up till the moment they separated. That didn’t end the friendship, though, which lives on even as...

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