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Leslie Forbes

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"After dropping out of England's Royal College of Art without the Masters in Film and Design she had dropped out of studying physics and politics in Canada to get, Forbes won a talent contest at Vogue, where she worked as a designer until she couldn't stand fashion any more. She then became a designer for BBC-TV (once constructing a life-size working robot out of pasta) and the author of award-winning food/travel books including Table in Tuscany. A regular presenter/writer of BBC radio documentaries, since 1990 Forbes turned to fiction in 1995, when she wrote the internationally acclaimed thriller Bombay Ice, which wove Chaos Theory into a Bollywood remake of Shakespeare's Tempest. Her equally-acclaimed second and third novels, Fish, Blood...more

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Average rating: 3.01 · 260 ratings · 46 reviews · 19 distinct works

	Bombay Ice 2.99 avg rating — 89 ratings — 12 editions	My rating:
	Waking Raphael 2.84 avg rating — 86 ratings — 8 editions	My rating:
	Fish, Blood and Bone 3.20 avg rating — 74 ratings — 6 editions	My rating:
	A Table in Provence 3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1990	My rating:
	A Table in Tuscany-Classic Recipes from the Heart of Italy 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1986	My rating:
	De stilte van Rafaël 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2005	My rating:
	Bombay IJs 2.00 avg rating — 2 ratings	My rating:
	Remarkable Feasts 2.00 avg rating — 2 ratings	My rating:
	A Taste of Tuscany: Classic Recipes from the Heart of Italy 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1985	My rating:
	The Traveller's Notebook by Leslie Forbes, Record Books 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1992	My rating: