Swing Time
My favourite thing about this book is the way it approaches serious problems with a light touch, while still granting them their gravity.
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Ada’s Realm
Adas Raum is ambitious and epic in scope, gripping and intelligent in execution, and somehow both unforgiving and funny. It will let you meet Ada in her different iterations through the ages, as well as God in a number of irreverent and charismatic guises
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Foutah Djallon – a culinary journey through West Africa
I am more than pleased to let Mamadou Oury Balde, Carla Behringer and Eva Behringer take me on one of the few kinds of trip open to me right now: a taste journey. Their cookbook Foutah Djallon is for everyone who likes fried, hearty and fruity-sweet flavours.
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