Foreign Fruit : A Personal History of the Orange, Katie Goh

Foreign Fruit : A Personal History of the Orange, Katie GohNew Paperback The orange is a souvenir of history. Across time, it has been a harbinger of God and doom, fortune and failure, pleasure and suffering. It is a fruit containing metaphors, dreams, mythologies, superstitions, parables and histories within its tough rind. So, what happens when the fruit is peeled and each segment each moment of history, each meaning in time is pulled apart? In this distinct, subversive and intimate hybrid memoir, Katie Goh

two people were dead and another had been sent to prison

Cloves and nutmeg could reach Europe only via a complex web of trade routes

No one is safe in his techno-security state

has written extensively about the soldiers' lives

An elegant mansion stands on a deserted island just off the coast

estranged siblings Jun and Morgan Cho haven't spoken since the abrupt disappearance of their robot brother Yoyo

Rory Stewart explores his love for the UK in this account of history

and long-forgotten - that celebrate harmony

unvarnished

and casting fresh light on the basics of Roman culture from slavery to running water

Tombland is the seventh epic novel in C

Following the lives of nine heiresses and tracing their tainted money from its origins in the sugar plantations of the Caribbean