Blogs in June 2020

The Coincidence of Coconut Cake 6th June 2020

You’ve Got Mail meets How to Eat a Cupcake in this delightful novel about a talented chef and the food critic who brings down her restaurant–whose chance meeting turns into a delectable romance of mistaken identities. In downtown Milwaukee,...

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The Last Chinese Chef 6th June 2020

Struggling to get back on her feet in the wake of her husband’s premature death and stunned by a paternity suit against her husband’s estate, food writer Maggie McElroy plans a trip to China to investigate the claim and...

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All the Little Live Things 5th June 2020

The early life of Joe Allston, the retired literary agent of Stegner’s National Book Award-winning novel, The Spectator Bird, features in this disquieting and keenly observed novel. Scarred by the senseless death of their son and baffled by the...

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Sweet Thursday 5th June 2020

In Monterey, on the California Coast, Sweet Thursday is what they call the day after Lousy Wednesday – one of those days that’s just bad from the start. But Sweet Thursday is sunny and clear, a day when anything...

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The Pastures of Heaven 5th June 2020

Each of these delightful interconnected tales is devoted to a family living in a fertile valley on the outskirts of Monterey, California, and the effects that one particular family has on them all. Steinbeck tackles two important literary traditions...

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