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Doing without Delia: Tales of Triumph and Disaster in a French Kitchen by Michael Booth
$28.00 NZD
Category: World Cookbooks
Just as Well I'm Leaving by Michael Booth
$45.00 NZD
Category: General Travel
A funny, moving travelogue following in the footsteps of Hans Christian Andersen. Without Hans Christian Andersen there would be no Alice in Wonderland, no Roald Dahl and maybe even no Harry Potter (and he has outsold them all), but few realise that the man who invented children's literature was also a ...Show more
Just as Well I'm Leaving by Michael Booth
$28.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
Without Hans Christian Andersen there would be no Alice in Wonderland, no Roald Dahl and maybe even no Harry Potter (and he has outsold them all), but few realise that the man who invented children's literature was also a pioneering travel writer. Having been dragged against his will to live in Denmark, ...Show more
Sacre Cordon Bleu by Michael Booth
$38.00 NZD
Category: World Cookbooks
Michael Booth has had his fill of celebrity chefs and their recipes. He wants to know how to cook, not just to follow recipes. So, he burns his cookery books and, together with his young family, heads for a new life in Paris - reasoning that, if anyone can be trusted to make food complicated, it's the F ...Show more
Sushi and Beyond: What the Japanese Know about Cooking by Michael Booth
$40.00 NZD
Category: General Travel
Japan is the pre-eminent food nation on earth. The Japanese go to the most extraordinary lengths and expense to eat the finest, most delectable, and downright freakiest food imaginable. Their creativity, dedication and ingenuity, not to mention courage in the face of dishes such as cod sperm, whale peni ...Show more
The Almost Nearly Perfect People: Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia by Michael Booth
$28.00 NZD
Category: General Travel
The Danes are the happiest people in the world, and pay the highest taxes. 'Neutral' Sweden is one of the biggest arms manufacturers in the world. Finns have the largest per capita gun ownership after the US and Yemen. 54 per cent of Icelanders believe in elves. Norway is the richest country on earth. 5 ...Show more
The Almost Nearly Perfect People - The Truth about the Nordic Miracle by Michael Booth
$40.00 NZD
Category: General Travel | Reading Level: very good
The whole world wants to learn the secrets of Nordic exceptionalism: Why are the Danes the happiest people in the world, despite having the highest taxes? If the Finns really have the best education system, how come they still think all Swedish men are gay? Are the Icelanders really feral? How are the N ...Show more
The Meaning of Rice: And Other Tales from the Belly of Japan by Michael Booth
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Reading Level: very good
"The next Bill Bryson." (New York Times). In this often hilarious yet deeply researched book, food and travel writer Michael Booth and his family embark on an epic journey the length of Japan to explore its dazzling food culture. They find a country much altered since their previous visit ten years earl ...Show more
Three Tigers, One Mountain - A journey through the bitter history and current conflicts of China, Korea and Japan by Michael Booth
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Reading Level: near fine
'The next Bill Bryson' (New York Times) explores international relations past and present between three East Asian countries - Japan, South Korea and China - in this lively, absorbing travelogue China, Korea and Japan are the neighbours who love to hate each other. But why? More than neighbours, these ...Show more
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