All formats/editions
Description
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...
All Formats/Editions
Click the Download button to download a copy of the MARC file.
Enter your FTP details below to send the MARC export file via FTP.
Product recommendations
by Anthony Capella
by John Lanchester
by Patrick Flanery
by Jojo Moyes
by Alice Munro
by Kachi Ozumba
by Adele Geras
by Deon Meyer
by Olivia Gates
by Caro Ramsay
Professional reviews
"'Delicious in every way.' SUNDAY TIMES '[An] imaginative storyline and boldly descriptive prose.' THE ECONOMIST 'A fruity, full-bodied story.' GOOD HOUSEKEEPING '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.' THE GUARDIAN"
Stay up to date with W.F.Howes news and announcements
The Home of Audiobooks & Large Print