John Baxter: 36 books
A Year in Paris
Season by Season in the City of Light
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2019
A NEW YORK TIMES "SUMMER READING" PICK!
From the incomparable John Baxter, award-winning author of the bestselling The Most Beautiful Walk in the World, a sumptuous and definitive portrait of Paris through the seasons, highlighting the unique tastes, sights, and changing personality...
A Pound of Paper
Confessions of a Book Addict
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2005
In the rural Australia of the fifties where John Baxter grew up, reading books was disregarded with suspicion, owning and collecting them with utter incomprehension. Despite this, by the age of eleven Baxter had 'collected' his first book - The Poems of Rupert Brooke. He'd read the volume often, but...
Carnal Knowledge
Baxter's Concise Encyclopedia of Modern Sex
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
Averitable smorgasbord of sin, John Baxter's Carnal Knowledge is a delightfully unabashed education in sex and erotic culture. Would you ever consent to a knee-trembler at a love hotel? Would you enjoy a hot lunch while watching kinbaku? Would you consider wearing a French tickler, a merkin, a strap-on,...
French Riviera and Its Artists
Art, Literature, Love, and Life on the Côte d'Azur
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Get swept up in the glitz and glamour of the French Riviera as author and filmmaker John Baxter takes readers on a whirlwind tour through the star-studded cultural history of the Côte d’Azur that’s sure to delight travelers, Francophiles, and culture lovers alike. Readers will discover the dramatic...
Saint-Germain-des-Pres
Paris's Rebel Quarter
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
From the bestselling author of The Most Beautiful Walk in the World comes this first book in an exciting new series of narrative “biographies” of Paris’s great neighborhoods, beginning with Saint-Germain-des-Pres—the city’s “rebel quarter,” for centuries a center of artistic, intellectual,...
The Most Beautiful Walk in the World
A Pedestrian in Paris
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2011
Thrust into the unlikely role of professional "literary walking tour" guide, an expat writer provides the most irresistibly witty and revealing tour of Paris in years.
In this enchanting memoir, acclaimed author and long-time Paris resident John Baxter remembers his yearlong experience...
Montmartre
Paris's Village of Art and Sin
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
In the second portrait of his series Great Parisian Neighborhoods, award-winning raconteur John Baxter leads us on a whirlwind tour of Montmartre, the hill-top village that fired the greatest achievements of modern art while also provoking bloody revolution and the sexual misbehavior that made Paris...
The Perfect Meal
In Search of the Lost Tastes of France
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
John Baxter's The Perfect Meal is part grand tour of France, part history of French cuisine, taking readers on a journey to discover and savor some of the world's great cultural achievements before they disappear completely.
Some of the most revered and complex elements of French cuisine are...
Immoveable Feast
A Paris Christmas
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
A witty cultural and culinary education, Immoveable Feast is the charming, funny, and improbable tale of how a man who was raised on white bread—and didn't speak a word of French—unexpectedly ended up with the sacred duty of preparing the annual Christmas dinner for a venerable Parisian family.
Ernest...
Paris at the End of the World
The City of Light During the Great War, 1914-1918
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
A preeminent writer on Paris, John Baxter brilliantly brings to life one of the most dramatic and fascinating periods in the city’s history.
From 1914 through 1918 the terrifying sounds of World War I could be heard from inside the French capital. For four years, Paris lived under constant...
by John Baxter
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
The life of Hollywood’s number one movie actor, the elusive Robert De Niro, who shuns the limelight and rarely gives interviews, written by the leading film critic and biographer of Spielberg, Kubrick, Woody Allen and George Lucas. Robert De Niro is the pre-eminent Hollywood character performer...
Five Nights in Paris
After Dark in the City of Light
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
An irresistible nighttime tour of Paris, past and present, by the bestselling author of The Most Beautiful Walk in the World
Every guidebook to Paris is crammed with sites to see during the day, but visitors are often cast adrift once the sun sets and the Louvre, Notre Dame, and other tourist...
Montparnasse
Paris's District of Memory and Desire
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
In the third portrait of his series Great Parisian Neighborhoods, award-winning raconteur John Baxter takes readers on a dazzling excursion of Montparnasse.
By the IACP Award-winning author of the national bestseller The Most Beautiful Walk in the World, MONTPARNASSE reveals the history and...
Chronicles of Old Paris
Exploring the Historic City of Light
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Discover one of the world’s most fascinating and beautiful cities through 30 dramatic true stories spanning the rich history of Paris. John Baxter takes readers through 2,000 years of French history with tales of the kings, queens, saints, and sinners who shaped the city. Essays explore the major...