Region-by-region, this work covers all the major cheeses from France, Italy, Switzerland and other countries. It also includes information on the best ways to store and serve cheese, including which wines to serve alongside them.

Presents a collection of dishes, experiences, reflections, history and philosophy raised gastronomy to an art form. This book gives the author's views on taste, diet and maintaining a healthy weight, on digestion, sleep, dreams and being a gourmand. It offers an argument for the pleasures of good food and a hearty appetite.

Offers an unofficial account of Noah's Ark and his Voyage, which explains about how the human race has subsequently developed.

The winner of the Whitbread Best First Novel 1990, this is the story of Karim Amir, an Englishman born and bred - almost , who lives with his English mother and Indian father in the South London suburbs. It is written by the author of My Beautiful Launderette and Sammy and Rosie Get Laid .

Presents the memoirs of the author that help to meet him when he was young, dressed in short trousers, and wrestling with the demands of school, various relatives and the occasional snake, in the suburbs of post-war Sydney.

In this delicately wrought and profoundly moving, multi-award winning novel, Andrea Levy handles the weighty themes of empire, prejudice, war and love, with a lightness of touch and a generosity of spirit that challenges and uplifts the reader.