Cooking with Fernet Branca

"A playful book, full of fun and games. There is so much pleasure to be had from Hamilton-Paterson's delight in language and wicked way with unreliable narrators. . . . The book's effect is achieved almost entirely through the comic magnetism of a single character."-The Times Literary Supplement_x000D_

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"A skillful, highly original writer. . . . The elegant language, witty asides and vivid observations are memorable."-The Literary Review_x000D_

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"I'm bowled over by the sheer imaginative brilliance of the man."-Barry Humphries_x000D_

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"I love his elegant and intensely evocative style: strangeness lifts off his pages like a rare perfume."-J.G. Ballard_x000D_

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"A work of comic genius."-The Independent_x000D_

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"A wonderfully rich alloy of sub-Wildean witticisms and nonsense, Cooking with Fernet Branca had me laughing out loud and uproariously."-Ian Thomson, Sunday Telegraph_x000D_

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Gerald Samper, an effete English snob, has his own private hilltop in Tuscany, where he wiles away his time working as a ghostwriter for celebrities and inventing