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1	Cooking with Fernet Branca by James Hamilton-Paterson add to wishlist "A playful book, full of fun and games. There is so much pleasure to be had from Hamilton-Paterson's delight in language and wicked way with unreliable narrators. . . . The book's effect is achieved almost entirely through the comic magnetism of a single character."-"The Times Literary Supplement" "A skillful, highly original writer. . . . The ... see all copies from $2.94! new only from $8.78! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Cooking With Fernet Branca by James Hamilton-Paterson add to wishlist Gerald Samper, an effete Englishman, lives on a hilltop in Tuscany. He is a ghostwriter for celebrities, and a foodie, whose weird tastes include 'Mussels in Chocolate and Garlic' and 'Fernet Branca Ice Cream'. His idyll is shattered by the arrival of Marta, a vulgar woman from a former Soviet republic now run by gangsters, notably male members of ... see all copies from $2.53! new only from $9.57!
3	Cooking With Fernet Branca by James Hamilton-Paterson add to wishlist Gerald Samper, an effete Englishman and ghostwriter for celebrities, lives on a hilltop in Tuscany. His idyll is shattered by the arrival of Marta, a vulgar woman from the Soviet Republic. The neighbours' lives disastrously intertwine as the English obsession with Tuscany is satirized. see all copies from $2.49! new only from $15.83! \| first editions
4	Three Miles Down: A Hunt for Sunken Treasure more books like this by James Hamilton-Paterson add to wishlist For the fans of "Ship of Gold" and "The Deep Blue Sea" comes a fascinating tale of deep sea exploration and a hunt for sunken World War II treasure. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.48! \| first editions
5	Rancid Pansies more books like this by James Hamilton-Paterson add to wishlist Book Three in the Gerald Samper series finds Samper recuperating in Sussex, when he learns that film rights to his book on Millie Cleatathe have been sold. This windfall is sufficient to finance a return to Italy--and his dream to write the libretto for an opera. see all copies from $3.22! new only from $5.74! \| SVS
6	Gerontius more books like this by James Hamilton-Paterson add to wishlist The starting point of this novel is an event in the life of Sir Edward Elgar - a cruise to the Amazon that he took in 1923. In telling the story of that journey the author explores melancholy, the waning of creative genius, post-war disillusionment and the way in which England treats its artists. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $29.99! \| first editions
7	Playing with Water: Passion and Solitude on a Philippine Island more books like this by James Hamilton-Paterson add to wishlist An account of the author's solitary seasons on an island, during which he reflects on his own life and on the life of the island itself. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.76! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Three Miles Down: A Firsthand Account of Deep Sea Exploration and a Hunt for Sunken World War II Treasure more books like this by James Hamilton-Paterson, Kati Steele (Editor) add to wishlist A brilliant account of a hunt for sunken World War II treasure off the west coast of Africa, "Three Miles Down" is also a rousing tale of greed, courage, and great beauty in the tradition of "Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea". see all copies from $1.99! new only from $44.73! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Amazing Disgrace by James Hamilton-Paterson add to wishlist "Imagine a British John Waters crossed with David Sedaris."-The New York Times Book Review Set both in Tuscany and in the trendy haunts of London, this hilarious sequel to the popular Cooking with Fernet Branca is further evidence of Hamilton-Paterson's wit and comic inventiveness. The inimitable Gerald Samper is back, with his musings on the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.95! \| first editions \| SVS
10	Great Deep: The Sea and Its Thresholds more books like this by James Hamilton-Paterson add to wishlist James Hamilton-Paterson is a wandering explorer of all things watery who is equally at home accompanying a scientific survey voyage or snorkeling alone on a remote coral reef. Now, in Great Deep, he shares with readers his immense knowledge of the sea as well as his diverse adventures, provocative musings, and intriguing speculations. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
11	Ghosts of Manila more books like this by James Hamilton Paterson, James Hamilton-Paterson add to wishlist Ghosts of Manila is a haunting novel set in one of the world's most violent cities. It opens in a wasteland near Manila Airport, where a factory produces marketable human skeletons from the bodies of derelicts - and the victims of police death squads. The violence that follows, rendered in often breathtaking prose, affects a diverse group of ... see all copies from $23.10!
12 view cover	Loving Monsters more books like this by James Hamilton-Paterson add to wishlist 'I'm embarrassed to say this, James,' he murmured, 'but you're probably going to write my life. I know how presumptuous it sounds - and vain, and so on - but I really do think that's what you will end up doing. I've had rather an exotic life, actually, and I don't believe you'll be bored.' A chance encounter in a local store leads a writer to ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions
13 view cover	That Time in Malomba more books like this by James Hamilton-Paterson add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.85! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Amazing Disgrace by James Hamilton-Paterson add to wishlist Gerald Samper is a ghost writer to the stars: rock singers, racing drivers and ski champions. And to Millie Cleat, the monstrous one-armed sailor, whose round-the-world voyage has made her the toast of Britain and the poster-girl for the Deep Blues, a mystical and nutty environmental group. Gerald pines for greater things, however, and would ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.97!
15 view cover	Seven Tenths: The Sea and Its Thresholds more books like this by James Hamilton-Paterson add to wishlist Taking humanity's complex relationship with the sea as its starting point, "Seven Tenths" is an enticing meditation on the sea as the physical birthplace of the human race and the emotional source of its dreams. see all copies from $6.11! new only from $8.88! \| SVS
16	Mummies: Death and more books like this by James Hamilton-Paterson, Carol Andrews add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.98! \| first editions
17	Hostage! more books like this by James Hamilton-Paterson add to wishlist Mistakenly kidnapped by a guerilla group, the son of an American oil executive discovers that as the weeks of his captivity pass he is less and less sure which side he wants to be on. see all copies from $1.99! first editions
18	America's boy more books like this by James Hamilton-Paterson add to wishlist A re-examination of the rule of Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos in the Philippines and the conditions that gave rise to their leadership. The author argues that they were merely the latest in a long line of corrupt Filipino leaders in a country which had historically been ruled by oligarchies see all copies from $8.86! first editions
19	Mummies: Death and Life in Ancient Egypt more books like this by James Hamilton-Paterson add to wishlist see all copies from $7.50! first editions
20	Mummies: 2death and more books like this by James Hamilton-Paterson, Carol Andrews add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions
21	The House in the Waves more books like this by James Hamilton-Paterson add to wishlist Having spent most of his life in foster homes and institutions, a fourteen-year-old withdraws into himself until a strange message on the beach takes him back to another time. see all copies from $1.99! first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	America's Boy: A Century of Colonialism in the Philippines more books like this by James Hamilton-Paterson add to wishlist Covering the rise and fall of Ferdinand Marcos, the author offers a devastating vision of the price Filipinos paid for dictatorship and other misadventures of U.S. colonialism. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $177.71! \| first editions
23 view cover	View from Mount Dog by James Hamilton-Paterson add to wishlist From England to the Philippines, from the Middle East to South America, the 12 stories in this collection portray a world that is far stranger, and far more lawless, than we would perhaps like to admit. The author won the 1989 Whitbread First Novel Award for "Gerontius". see all copies from $16.23! first editions \| SVS
24	The Music: Stories about Music more books like this by Rudolf Steiner, James Hamilton-Paterson add to wishlist This collection offers fables and fictions on creativity, tradition and loss. A love of music unites these stories and each in its different way has a musical theme. The author's novel, "Ghosts of Manila", was shortlisted for the Whitbread Fiction Prize. see all copies from $1.99!
25 view cover	Ghosts of Manila more books like this by James Hamilton-Paterson add to wishlist This is a story of revenge, corruption and anarchy - and a kind of justice - in one of the world's most violent cities. Hamilton-Paterson wrote "Gerontius" which won the Whitbread Prize in 1989. see all copies from $2.53! first editions

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