Bøker av Thomas Fox Averill

It's Christmas, and Carol Dickens's life is in major transition. As her world spins out of control, Carol seeks refuge in her research on the use of the semicolon - and in her ritual of cooking the perfect series of Victorian holiday meals inspired by A Christmas Carol.

Raised in the traditional kitchen from which his mother runs her Buen AppeTito catering service, Weston Tito Hingler's childhood is shaped by the foods he eats. Filled with recipes and definitions of New World ingredients, Averill's novel follows Wes as he navigates his way through the duelling cuisines of his passionate parents and the signature recipes of his life.

When Thomas Fox Averill first heard Jimmy Driftwood's ballad "Tennessee Stud," he found the song hauntingly compelling. As he began to imagine the story behind the lyrics, he set out to research the song's history--a tale from "along about eighteen and twenty-five" of the legendary exploits of the greatest horse that ever lived, the "Tennessee Stud," and his owner.

Explores the relationship between fathers and sons, the dead and the living, the natural and the unnatural. This work reveals the ordinary and the extraordinary genius of a place, a time, a solitary soul embedded in the minutiae of the everyday.