Topic: Joanne Harris

My desktop

Joanne Harris's desktop: commuting to work . When I'm at the computer I feel as if I'm plugged straight into the story, instead of having to...
Besides several novels Joanne Harris has also written a cookbook, I'm not surprised seeing that she's found a recipe for writing successful novels. As if that weren't enough Les Salant, Mado's place , is split as well, two families ...
Blackberry Wine is one of a series of food related books written by Joanne Harris, more recognised for her bestselling books, Chocolat and Five Quarters of an Orange. The style of Joanne Harris's work is distinctively different from many that write ...
Joanne Harris's "Chocolat" is really a mouth watering work of art. Not a light theme to choose when you put Christianity at stake, but somehow Joanne Harris managed to tell a beautiful story without any malice hurls toward anybody. Father Reynaud ...
Although I enjoyed the film Chocolat, I've never been particularly drawn to read any of Joanne Harris' books. Roy Straitley is Latin master at St Oswald's, a boy's grammar school. One of the two narrators of the story, Roy ...
Joanne Harris' Five Quarters of the Orange (Harper Perennial, 2007) draws heavily from Harris' French heritage to tell the deliciously dramatic story of Framboise Simon. Nevertheless, when her mother passes away, Boise's brother inherits the family farm, Boise's sister inherits ...

The early corridors of power

PREP by Curtis Sittenfeld Picador, GENTLEMEN & In Prep, Lee Fiora hails from unfashionable Indiana and wins a scholarship to Ault, a smart boarding school in Massachusetts. The cool, pared-down prose mirrors Lee's aloofness, which allows her to observe the social hierarchies ...