James Hamilton-Paterson





James Hamilton-Paterson

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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.


Average rating: 3.70 · 787 ratings · 205 reviews · 28 distinct works
Cooking with Fernet Branca ...
3.57 of 5 stars 3.57 avg rating — 463 ratings — published 2004 — 7 editions
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Amazing Disgrace (Gerald Sa...
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Rancid Pansies (Gerald Samp...
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Seven Tenths: The Sea and I...
4.31 of 5 stars 4.31 avg rating — 36 ratings — published 1992 — 8 editions
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Playing with Water
4.24 of 5 stars 4.24 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 1987 — 7 editions
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Loving Monsters
4.06 of 5 stars 4.06 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2001 — 4 editions
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Griefwork
4.08 of 5 stars 4.08 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1993 — 4 editions
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Empire of the Clouds: When ...
4.55 of 5 stars 4.55 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2011
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Gerontius
3.65 of 5 stars 3.65 avg rating — 17 ratings5 editions
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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

“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

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

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