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James Hamilton-Paterson's work has been translated into many languages. He is a highly acclaimed author of non-fiction books, including Seven-Tenths, Three Miles Down and Playing with Water, as well as America's Boy, a study of Ferdinand Marcos and the Philippines. Gerontius, his first novel, won the Whitbread Award, while his most recent, Loving Monsters (2001), was praised by the Sunday Telegraph as 'tantalising, erudite and ingenious'. He lives in Italy.

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Average rating: 3.70 · 787 ratings · 205 reviews · 28 distinct works

	Cooking with Fernet Branca (Gerald Samper, #1) 3.57 avg rating — 463 ratings — published 2004 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Amazing Disgrace (Gerald Samper, #2) 3.74 avg rating — 100 ratings — 4 editions	My rating:
	Rancid Pansies (Gerald Samper, #3) 3.71 avg rating — 70 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	Seven Tenths: The Sea and Its Thresholds 4.31 avg rating — 36 ratings — published 1992 — 8 editions	My rating:
	Playing with Water 4.24 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 1987 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Loving Monsters 4.06 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2001 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Empire of the Clouds: When Britain's Aircraft Ruled the World by James Hamilton-Paterson, Hamilton-Paterson 4.00 avg rating — 15 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	Griefwork 4.08 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1993 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Empire of the Clouds: When Britain's Aircraft Ruled the World 4.55 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2011	My rating:
	Gerontius 3.65 avg rating — 17 ratings — 5 editions	My rating:

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“The chef who cooks without a song on his lips cannot hope to infuse the right carefree improvisatory note into his art.”
― James Hamilton-Paterson, Cooking with Fernet Branca

tags: music

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“Sometimes in the company of others I find a disagreeable spirit of competitiveness kicks in and each person is shamed into spending rather more than he would have wished. This is a historically established syndrome, of course. One Magus going to Bethlehem would probably have sprung for a box of After Eights. Three Magi on the same trip found themselves laden with gold, frankincense and myrrh and bitterly comtemplating their overdrafts.”
― James Hamilton-Paterson, Cooking with Fernet Branca

tags: christmas

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“A culinary triumph: the ingenious use of food as an offensive weapon.”
― James Hamilton-Paterson, Cooking with Fernet Branca

tags: cuisine

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