Jon Courtenay Grimwood

Jean-Marie D’aumont will try anything once, with consequences that are at times mouthwatering and at others fascinatingly macabre. Orphaned as a child, taken under the wing of a local nobleman and sent to an elite school for young gentlemen, Jean-Marie becomes an Enlightenment-era Zelig. He befriends Ben Franklin, corresponds with the Marquis de Sade and Voltaire, thwarts a peasant uprising, plays a key role in the Corsican War of Independence, and, among other feats, constructs the finest menagerie in all of Europe. Rising through the ranks of eighteenth-century French society, he feasts with lords, ladies, revolutionaries, and eventually kings. He is a father, a husband, a devoted friend, and an imaginative lover. But Jean-Marie’s every adventurous turn is decided by his obsessive quest to know all of the world’s flavors before that world changes forever. Set against the backdrop of the Enlightenment, the French Revolution, and the delectable decadence of Versailles, The Last Banquet is as gripping as Patrick Suskind’s Perfume and as voluptuous as John Lanchester’s The Debt to Pleasure. Jonathan Grimwood has given readers a sumptuous and hugely appealing novel about food and flavor, about the Age of Reason, about revolution, hunger, and obsession. Jonathan Grimwood has written for The Guardian, The Times, The Telegraph and The Independent and numerous other magazines and newspapers. The Last Banquet is his first work of literary fiction. He divides his time between London and Winchester.

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Jon Courtenay Grimwood signerar The Fallen Blade.; Catherine Webb signerar The Neon Court.

Forbidden Planet is pleased to announce a double signing by Jon Courtenay Grimwood and Kate Griffin for their new titles The Fallen Blade and The Neon Court the Forbidden Planet Megastore, 179 Shaftesbury Avenue, London SE1 0UP on Thursday 3rd February from 6 – 7pm. The Fallen Blade takes us to Venice, in the early 15th century and at the height of its power. A simpleton Duke, unable to rule effectively, has a fifteen-year-old cousin stolen by Mamluk pirates. And his chief assassin has found a creature of mystery – a slight, swift boy, drinking blood from a slit throat. A boy who would make a perfect apprentice. In The Neon Court, Matthew Swift has even more problems. A dead woman is trying to kill him and the city itself is under attack from a force of unimaginable power. As if trying to stay one step ahead of an assassin and juggling magical politics weren't enough, he must also find a way to defeat a primal threat from humanity's darkest nightmares. Or there may not be a London left to fight over. (souloftherose)… (mer)

Dirk Maggs, Guest of Honour.; Jon Courtenay Grimwood, Guest of Honour.; Tim Powers, Guest of Honour.; David Lloyd, Guest of Honour.; Eoin Colfer diskuterar And Another Thing.

Run by fans, for fans, Eastercon is the UK’s largest annual speculative fiction convention, covering science fiction, fantasy and horror. As a general convention it embraces SF in all its manifestations from the literary to art, film, television, live performance, comics and role playing games - find out more on the ‘What is Eastercon?‘ page. LX will be the 60th Eastercon and will take place over Easter weekend, 10-13 April, 2009. There’ll be all sorts of different elements to keep you informed and entertained. (wimble)… (mer)