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A Year in Paris: Season-By-Season in the City of Light by John Baxter
$32.99 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
From the incomparable John Baxter, the bestselling author of The Most Beautiful Walk in the World, a sumptuous and definitive portrait of Paris through the seasons, highlighting the unique tastes, sights, and changing personality of the city in spring, summer, fall, and winter. When the common people o ...Show more
Charles Boyer: The French Lover by JOHN BAXTER
$85.00 AUD
Category: Entertainment | Series: Screen Classics Ser.
Charles Boyer: The French Lover is the first biography of Boyer to exist in English in almost forty years. Author John Baxter artfully presents the often-tragic life of this often overlooked, yet profoundly impactful French actor. Baxter relates how Boyer established himself in the theatre and cinema of ...Show more
Chronicles of Old Paris by John Baxter
$27.99 AUD
Category: Travel Guides
Discover one of the world's most fascinating and beautiful cities through twenty-nine dramatic true stories spanning the rich history of Paris. From the headless walk of Saint Denis to the seances of the Surrealists, experience two thousand years of history as John Baxter leads eight walking tours follo ...Show more
Cooking for Claudine: How I Cooked My Way into the Heart of a Formidable French Family by John Baxter
$23.00 AUD
Category: General
For John Baxter - acclaimed film critic and food lover - that moment came when he fell in love with a French woman and impulsively moved to Paris to marry her. As a test of his love, his sceptical in-laws charged him with cooking the next Christmas banquet. His year-long quest takes readers to the farth ...Show more
Five Nights in Paris: After Dark in the City of Light by John Baxter
$25.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
The preeminent expat writer on Paris and author of The Most Beautiful Walk in the World takes you on an unforgettable nocturnal stroll through five iconic Parisian neighborhoods and his own memories.John Baxter enchanted readers with his literary tour of Paris in The Most Beautiful Walk in the World. No ...Show more
French Riviera and Its Artists: Art, Literature, Love, and Life on the Cote D'Azur by John Baxter
$28.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
Get swept up in the glitz and glamour of the French Riviera as author John Baxter takes readers tour through the star-studded cultural history of the Cote D'Azur. Learn about where Cezanne painted side by side with Renoir the views that inspired Matisse, the rich Riviera colors that changed Chagall's wo ...Show more
Golden Moments of Paris: A Guide to the Paris of the 1920s by John Baxter
$30.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
Following the popular "Chronicles of Old Paris," in "The Golden Moments of Paris," John Baxter has uncovered more fascinating true stories about the characters that gave Paris its "character" in the years between World War I and World War II. Explore more about one of the world's most beautiful and love ...Show more
Happy Leons: LEON Happy Salads by Jane Baxter, John Vincent
$30.00 AUD
Category: Food | Series: Happy Leons Ser.
Leon was founded on the twin principles that food can both taste good and do you good. In this book, Leon authors Jane Baxter and John Vincent bring together 100 recipes for fresh, vibrant, delicious salads that will have you feeling healthy and happy. Divided into chapters that include Classics, Natura ...Show more
Montmartre: Paris's Village of Art and Sin by John Baxter
$22.99 AUD
Category: Travel Writing | Series: Great Parisian Nieghborhoods
In the second portrait of his series Great Parisian Neighborhoods, award-winning raconteur John Baxter leads us on a whirlwind tour of Montmartre, the hill-top village that fired the greatest achievements of modern art while also provoking bloody revolution and the sexual misbehavior that made Paris syn ...Show more
Montparnasse: Paris's District of Memory and Desire by John Baxter
$23.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing | Series: Great Parisian Neighborhoods
In the third portrait of his series Great Parisian Neighborhoods, award-winning raconteur John Baxter takes readers on a dazzling excursion of Montparnasse. By the IACP Award-winning author of the national bestseller The Most Beautiful Walk in the World, MONTPARNASSE reveals the history and present del ...Show more
Paris at the End of the World: The City of Light During the Great War, 1914-1918 by John Baxter
$25.00 AUD
Category: European | Series: P. S. Ser.
A preeminent writer on Paris, John Baxter brilliantly brings to life one of the most dramatic and fascinating periods in the city's history. From 1914 through 1918 the terrifying sounds of World War I could be heard from inside the French capital. For four years, Paris lived under constant threat of de ...Show more
Saint-Germain-Des-Pres: Paris's Rebel Quarter by John Baxter
$23.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing | Series: Great Parisian Nieghborhoods
From the bestselling author of The Most Beautiful Walk in the World comes this first book in an exciting new series of narrative "biographies" of Paris's great neighborhoods, beginning with Saint-Germain-des-Pres-the city's "rebel quarter," for centuries a center of artistic, intellectual, and revolutio ...Show more