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A Paris Christmas: An Improbable Tale of Good Food and True Love by Baxter, John
Category: Biography
A Paris Christmas is the charming, funny and improbable tale of how a man who was raised on white bread - and didn't speak a word of French - unexpectedly ended up with the sacred duty of preparing the Christmas dinner for a venerable Parisian family. Having fallen in love with a French woman and impuls ...Show more
A Pound of Paper by John Baxter
Category: General Fiction
In the rural Australia of the fifties where John Baxter grew up, reading books was disregarded with suspicion, owning and collecting them with utter incomprehension. Despite this, by the age of eleven Baxter had 'collected' his first book - "The Poems of Rupert Brooke." He'd read the volume often, but n ...Show more
A Year in Paris: Season-By-Season in the City of Light by John Baxter
Category: Travel
From the incomparable John Baxter, the bestselling author of The Most Beautiful Walk in the World, a sumptuous and definitive portrait of Paris through the seasons, highlighting the unique tastes, sights, and changing personality of the city in spring, summer, fall, and winter. When the common people o ...Show more
Black Yacht by John Baxter
Category: Crime and Thrillers
The America's Cup yacht race is disrupted by the ruthless international assassin, Marie-Ange Planchet, who is hired to kill participants Marie-Ange Planchet: Hunted by Interpol, the Surete and the KGB, she was the start-of-the-art assassin who never failed. Tom Needhan: Wining the Cup would make ...Show more
Charles Boyer: The French Lover by JOHN BAXTER
Category: Biography | Series: Screen Classics Ser.
Charles Boyer: The French Lover is the first biography of Boyer to exist in English in almost forty years. Author John Baxter artfully presents the often-tragic life of this often overlooked, yet profoundly impactful French actor. Baxter relates how Boyer established himself in the theatre and cinema of ...Show more
Chronicles of Old Paris by John Baxter
Category: Travel
Discover one of the world's most fascinating and beautiful cities through twenty-nine dramatic true stories spanning the rich history of Paris. From the headless walk of Saint Denis to the seances of the Surrealists, experience two thousand years of history as John Baxter leads eight walking tours follo ...Show more
Cooking for Claudine: How I Cooked My Way into the Heart of a Formidable French Family by John Baxter
Category: Biography
For John Baxter - acclaimed film critic and food lover - that moment came when he fell in love with a French woman and impulsively moved to Paris to marry her. As a test of his love, his sceptical in-laws charged him with cooking the next Christmas banquet. His year-long quest takes readers to the farth ...Show more
De Niro:A Biography by John Baxter
Category: Biography Memoir
Robert De Niro is the pre-eminent Hollywood character performer of our time: film portraits like the young Don Vito Corleone in "The Godfather II", Jake La Motta in "Raging Bull" and Travis Bickle in "Taxi Driver" are some of the most vivid ever put on celluloid. De Niro cannot be cast to type, prefers ...Show more
Eating Eternity: Food, Art and Literature in France by John Baxter
Category: Home and Garden
"Show me another pleasure like dinner which comes every day and lasts an hour," wrote Talleyrand. That Napoleon's most gifted advisor should speak so highly of eating says much about the importance of food in French culture. From the crumbs of a madeleine dipped in tisane that inspired Marcel Proust to ...Show more
Five Nights in Paris: After Dark in the City of Light by John Baxter
Category: Travel
The preeminent expat writer on Paris and author of The Most Beautiful Walk in the World takes you on an unforgettable nocturnal stroll through five iconic Parisian neighborhoods and his own memories.John Baxter enchanted readers with his literary tour of Paris in The Most Beautiful Walk in the World. No ...Show more
French Riviera and Its Artists: Art, Literature, Love, and Life on the Cote D'Azur by John Baxter
Category: Travel
Get swept up in the glitz and glamour of the French Riviera as author John Baxter takes readers tour through the star-studded cultural history of the Cote D'Azur. Learn about where Cezanne painted side by side with Renoir the views that inspired Matisse, the rich Riviera colors that changed Chagall's wo ...Show more