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A Paris Christmas: An Improbable Tale of Good Food and True Love by Baxter, John
$22.99 NZD
Category: Non-fiction
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 - Confessions of a Book Addict by John Baxter
$49.95 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
A Year in Paris: Season-By-Season in the City of Light by John Baxter
$35.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Reading Level: 4
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
Complete Poems by James K. Baxter (edited by John Weir)
$199.95 NZD
Category: No Category
James K. Baxter, one of New Zealand's greatest poets, began writing poetry when he was a seven-year-old pupil at Brighton Primary School. By the time his first book, Beyond the Palisades, was published when he was eighteen, he had written more than 600 poems. His life's work, contained in this four-volu ...Show more
Cooking for Claudine - How I Cooked My Way into the Heart of a Formidable French Family by John Baxter
$28.99 NZD
Category: Cooking & Wine | Reading Level: very good
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
Five Nights in Paris: After Dark in the City of Light by John Baxter
$29.99 NZD
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
Golden Moments of Paris: A Guide to the Paris of the 1920s by John Baxter
$29.99 NZD
Category: No Category
Following the popular "Chronicles of Old Paris," in "The Golden Moments of Paris," John Baxter has uncovered more fascinating true stories about the characters that gave Paris its "character" in the years between World War I and World War II. Explore more about one of the world's most beautiful and love ...Show more
Happy Leons: LEON Happy Salads by Jane Baxter, John Vincent
$29.99 NZD
$55.00 (45% off)
Category: Cooking & Wine | Series: Happy Leons Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Leon was founded on the twin principles that food can both taste good and do you good. In this book, Leon authors Jane Baxter and John Vincent bring together 100 recipes for fresh, vibrant, delicious salads that will have you feeling healthy and happy. Divided into chapters that include Classics, Natura ...Show more
James K Baxter: Complete Prose by James K Baxter, ed. John Weir
$200.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non-fiction | Reading Level: very good
James K. Baxter was a great twentieth-century poet. He once declared, ‘In contradiction . . . I was born.’Sometimes at odds with God, often at odds with conventional society, he was at the same time a profoundly religious man and a fearless social critic who insisted that love and compassion were the on ...Show more
Montmartre: Paris's Village of Art and Sin by John Baxter
$22.99 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Great Parisian Nieghborhoods | Reading Level: General Adult
In the second portrait of his series Great Parisian Neighborhoods, award-winning raconteur John Baxter leads us on a whirlwind tour of Montmartre, the hill-top village that fired the greatest achievements of modern art while also provoking bloody revolution and the sexual misbehavior that made Paris syn ...Show more
Montparnasse: Paris's District of Memory and Desire by John Baxter
$25.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Series: Great Parisian Neighborhoods
In the third portrait of his series Great Parisian Neighborhoods, award-winning raconteur John Baxter takes readers on a dazzling excursion of Montparnasse. By the IACP Award-winning author of the national bestseller The Most Beautiful Walk in the World, MONTPARNASSE reveals the history and present del ...Show more