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Barbara Pym: Excellent Women (****)
Dorothy Whipple: The Priory (****)
James Cowan: Desert Father (****)
John Banville: The Untouchable (*****)
John Banville: The Sea (*****)
John Banville: Shroud (*****)
Josephine Tey: Man in the Queue (*****)
Josephine Tey: The Singing Sands (*****)
Karen Blixen: Out of Africa (Penguin Modern Classics) (*****)
Lloyd Jones: Mister Pip (****)
Marghanita Laski : The Village (*****)
Mary Oliver: Blue Iris (*****)
Peter Hill: Stargazing (****)
Alex Mackay: Cooking in Provence (*****)
Donna Hay: Flavors (****)
Romney Steele: My Nepenthe: Bohemian Tales of Food, Family, and Big Sur (****)
Donna Hay: New Food Fast (****)
Diana Henry: Roast Figs Sugar Snow: Winter Food to Warm the Soul (****)
Elisabeth Prueitt: Tartine (*****)
Michelle Wojtowicz: The Big Sur Bakery Cookbook: A Year in the Life of a Restaurant (****)
Joseph Hall: The Black Dog Summer on the Vineyard Cookbook (****)
Joanne Harris: The French Market (*****)
Andrea Terry: The Lobster Roll (*****)