Describes the life and career of the French chef and television personality, from her wealthy childhood in California and married years in France to her successful cooking show in the United States

Takes the reader on a tour of the grand literary cafes of Britain and Europe, taking in cities as diverse as Paris, London, Barcelona, Rome and Prague. This book celebrates their architecture, history, tradition, and food and drink, and provides an insight to their enduring charm and popularity.

Product Description: [Audiobook CASSETTE Library Edition in vinyl case.][Read by Nadia May] A household name, Julia Child has entered the hearts of millions of Americans through their kitchens. Yet few know the richly varied private life that lies behind this icon...read more

Product Description: Anais Nin was the ultimate femme fatale, a passionate and mysterious woman, world famous for her extravagant sexual exploits, most notably her simultaneous affairs with Henry and June Miller and her bicoastal bigamous marriages. In the mid-1920s, eager to break the confines of American Victorianism both as an artist and as a woman, Nin traveled to Paris, where she fell in with the legendary artistic and literary circles of the Left Bank...read more

Suggests seven walking tours, and describes points of interest along each route related to Hemingway's life in Paris

Product Description: A selection of the some of the best writing to appear in "transition", one of the most important literary magazines of the 1920s in Paris, which includes work by Gide, Joyce, Jung, Kafka, Miro, Picasso and Gertrude Stein.

Making use of the author's access to the Beach family papers, this account chronicles the literary circle that gathered at Beach's Paris book shop (view table of contents)