British India Dublin Literary Award Nominee for Shortlist (2007) using original and hitherto unpublished

using original and hitherto unpublished secret service documents

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Other featured writers and places include:Nik Cohn on SavannahPhilip Gourevitch on TanzaniaShirley Hazzard on CapriPico Iyer on Iceland and EthiopiaNicole Krauss on JapanSuketu Mehta on the HimalayasEdna O'Brien on BathPatricia Storace on Provence and AthensJames Truman on IranGregor Von Rezzori on RomaniaEdmund White on JordanSimon Winchester on Mount PinatuboWilliam Dalrymple on his pilgrimage to SantiagoJohn Julius Norwich on the VaticanJan Morris on Hawaii

The Making of a Chef remains the most vivid and compelling memoir of a professional culinary education on record

fire and richness of detail that earn his place as one of the twentieth century's most important Indian writers

British India Dublin Literary Award Nominee for Shortlist (2007) using original and hitherto unpublished