Recommended Reads

July's Book Choice

Dan Brown "Angyalok es Demonok"
This issue of Showcase is the first to feature a title in a language other than English. This month's choice is Dan Brown's Angyalok es Demonok, the Hungarian version of Angels and Demons. You can also read this title in Chinese, French, Polish, Russian. If you would like to improve your language skills or read in your first language look out for future featured recommendations. We have 30 languages to choose from - just ask in your local library or Discovery Centre.
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The rest of this month’s choice features food in all its delights including novels with great foodie titles!

Lauren Liebenberg “The voluptuous delights of peanut butter and jam”
Set against a backdrop of war this story is told through the eyes of two young sisters. Poignant and thought provoking with some memorable characters.
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Alexander McCall Smith “The unbearable lightness of scones “
The fifth story of Bertie and his dysfunctional family and their continuing pursuit of a little happiness.
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Joanne Harris "The lollipop shoes"
Yanne and her daughters live above the chocolate shop in Montmartre. Their normal, ordinary lives are throw into chaos when Zozie, the lady with the lollipop shoes, arrives and everything starts to change.
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Yasutaka Tsutsui "Paprika "
Paprika, the alter ego of psychotherapist Atsuko Chiba, enters the world of her patients’ dreams.
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Anna Del Conte "Risotto with nettles: a memoir with food"
Del Conte brought Italian cooking to Britain when dried spaghetti was regarded as exotic. This is a feast of a memoir, full of tastes and talk of food from an unusual life.
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David Pritchard "Shooting the cook"
The story of television and the rise of the TV superchefs as told by a producer who inadvertently changed the landscape of cookery programmes for ever.
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Tom Standage "An edible history of humanity"
Throughout history food has done more than just provide sustenance. This is an account of how it has helped to shape and transform societies around the world.
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Hunter Davies "Cold meat and how to disguise it"
A history of how to survive in hard times thorough a hundred years of making ends meet. Although it’s social history it has resonance for today’s economic climate.
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Kate Colquhoun "The Thrifty cookbook"
Everything you need to know about eating well with leftovers. Make the most of your food including what to do with spare egg yolks, wrinkly fruit and veg and stale bread.
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