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.
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,...
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...
River of Smoke – Amitav Ghosh
Part Two of Ghosh’s ‘Ibis’ Trilogy looks at the run-up to the Opium Wars. From Bombay to Canton, Mauritius to Malacca – set sail for...
The Sportswriter – Richard Ford
New Jersey stands in for Algeria, not that Frank Bascombe would have noticed, living the good life and everything’s okay and nothing bears too much...
The Adversary – Emmanuel Carrère
In the quiet Jura region of France, a physician goes completely haywire in a series of crimes that are hard for his friends and acquaintances...
St. Urbain’s Horseman by Mordecai Richler
Mordecai Richler CC (January 27, 1931 – July 3, 2001) was a Canadian writer. His best known works are The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1959)...
My Name is Asher Lev – Chaim Potok
Tender Asher Lev has a gift – he can draw exceptionally well – and a drive to be an artist. Everyone around him has a...
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