Man of the Med
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Francesco's Mediterranean Voyage
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 VENETIAN ARCHITECT AND historian Francesco da Mosto sets out from Venice to cross the Mediterranean sea - following in the wake of his ancestor, the explorer Alvise da Mosto - to discover the cities and islands where Western civilization was born. The tie-in book to the series is Francesco's Mediterranean. Sailing in a late nineteenth-century schooner, his journey starts in Venice and finishes in Istanbul. Along the way he takes in spectacular ruins, like the Acropolis in Athens and the Roman city of Ephesus in Turkey; sacred sites like the monasteries of Mount Athos and the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul; and beautiful Dubrovnik (destroyed and rebuilt in the last decade). Ancient history and bygone legends intertwine as Francesco visits these wonderful ancient sites, bringing the past vividly to life, and taking readers on a thrilling cultural odyssey. Beautifully illustrated throughout, this book will be a must for fans of Francesco everywhere/td>
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Dexter
FX - Sundays
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 EVERYONE'S FAVOURITE SERIAL killer is back for the eagerly-anticipated second series about the Miami police forensics expert leads a secret double life as a serial killer, broadcast on digital channel FX before reaching the more wide-winged echelons of ITV1, but worth searching for! After killing his brother, The Ice Truck Killer, at the end of the last series, how can Dexter possibly top that? The new series kicks off with Dexter sad that he may never be able to follow his favourite hobby, gruesomely knocking off killers who think they've beaten the law. There are a few new Dexter books available - the paperback of Jeff Lindsay's Dexter In the Dark (Orion) is published this month, and the new hardback, Dexter by Design is out on September 18 |
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Antonio Carluccio
Desert Island Discs - Sunday / Radio 4 |
 Kirsty Young's castaway this week is Antonio Carluccio.
Italian Antonio was born in Vietri sul Mare in the province of Salerno and later moved with his family to Piedmont where he was a "food hunter". He learned his passion for mushrooms from friends of his father in the hills around his home. After a spell in the Navy, and a stint on newspaper La Stampa and with Olivetti, he eventually became a wine merchant in Germany, which was his occupation when he moved to London.
He ran his first restaurant in 1981 and two years later wrote his first book, An Invitation To Italian Cooking.
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Prince Caspian |
 THE SECOND IN the blockbuster adaption of the CS Lewis yarn, The Chronicles of Narnia, already received rapturously in America and sure to spark off vast sales of the tie-in, as The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe did. This time, Prince Caspian is in terrible danger when his wicked uncle, King Miraz, decides to get rid of the young heir to the throne. In desperation, Caspian blows the magic horn, calling on Peter, Susan, Lucy and Edmund in Narnia's hour of need. |
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The Impostor by Damon Galgut |
 THE OBSERVER SAID: "In The Impostor, has produced a novel that is every bit the equal of its predecessor (The Good Doctor. Perhaps wisely, Galgut hasn't strayed too far from the template that he established last time. The plot is once again fast-paced and breathless; the action again takes place in a remote community (although this time a lifeless town in the Karoo, not a hospital). And the story again centres on an awkward friendship between two very different white men - one a passive, ironic observer of the society that is crystallising, the other an optimistic schemer who believes he can refashion that society in his own image. There is, as has been noted before, something about Galgut's fiction that ultimately evades interpretation. It has a dreamlike quality; his plots seem propelled by a logic of their own."
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