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  • John Saturnall's Feast

    A Novel

    by Lawrence Norfolk ...
    "An enthralling tale of an orphan kitchen boy turned master of culinary arts, with sumptuous recipes and intoxicatingly gorgeous illustrations." — Vanity FairA beautiful, rich and sensuous historical novel, John Saturnall's Feast tells the story of a young orphan who becomes a kitchen boy at a manor house, and rises through the ranks to become the greatest cook of his generation. It is a story of ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Pope's Rhinoceros

    by Lawrence Norfolk ...
    "The acclaimed author of Lemprière's Dictionary furnishes another richly textured romp steeped in history, legend, and excitement." — BooklistThe Pope's Rhinoceros is a vivid, antic, and picaresque novel spun around one of history's most bizarre chapters: the sixteenth-century attempt to procure a rhinoceros as a bribe for Pope Leo X. In February 1516, a Portuguese ship sank off the coast of Italy ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • John Saturnall's Feast

    by Lawrence Norfolk ...
    From the bestselling author of Lemprière's Dictionary, Lawrence Norfolk is back with an astounding novel of seventeeth-century life, love and war; the story of an orphan who becomes the greatest cook of his age.The village of Buckland, 1625. A boy and his mother run for their lives. Behind them a mob chants of witchcraft. Taking refuge among the trees of Buccla's Wood, the mother opens her book ... Read more

    $11.59 CAD

  • The Pope's Rhinoceros

    by Lawrence Norfolk ...
    In February 1516, a Portugese ship sank with the loss of all hands a mile off the coast of Italy. The Nostra Senora da Adjuda had sailed 14000 miles from the Indian kingdom Gujarat: her mission, to deliver a rhinoceros to the Pope. The Pope's Rhinoceros tells the stories which culminate in this bizarre incident. Ranging from the Baltic Sea to a flyblown colony in India, from a tribe hidden in the ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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  • Quick & Easy Paleo Comfort Foods

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    by Julie Mayfield, Charles Mayfield ...
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  • A World Apart

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