The Various Flavours of Coffee

by Anthony Capella narrated by Jonathan Aris

Genre: Fiction > Modern Fiction

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Sensual, surprising, combining rich period detail with a deliciously playful touch, The Various Flavours of Coffee is another mouthwatering confection from the bestselling author of The Food of Love and The Wedding Officer.

Synopsis

It is 1895. Robert Wallis, would-be poet, bohemian and impoverished dandy, accepts a commission from coffee merchant Samuel Pinker to categorise the different tastes of coffee - and encounters Pinker's free-thinking daughters, Philomenia, Ada and Emily.

As romance blossoms with Emily, Robert realises that the muse and marriage may not be incompatible after all. Sent to Abyssinia to make his fortune in the coffee trade, he becomes obsessed with slave girl, Fikre. He decides to use the money he has saved to buy her from her owner - a decision that will change not only his own life, but the lives of the three Pinker sisters...

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Reviews & Press Quotes

Good Housekeeping

“A fruity, full-bodied story.”

Sunday Times

“Delicious in every way.”

The Economist

“[An] imaginative storyline and boldly descriptive prose.”

The Guardian

“Capella's book covers almost exactly the same 30-year period as Byatt's, but there the resemblance ends. Robert Wallis, libertine, spendthrift and would-be poet, is hired by a wealthy coffee merchant first to provide a Jilly Goolden-style taste directory for his umpteen flavours of coffee and second to travel to north Africa, home of the legendary mocha of Harar. Adventure, colonialism, love, slavery, suffragettes – it's all here. And sackfuls of sex along with the coffee beans.”

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