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What is taste? Is it individual or imposed on us from the outside? Why are so many of us so intimidated when presented with the wine list at a restaurant? In The Accidental Connoisseur, journalist Lawrence Osborne takes off on a personal voyage through a little-known world in pursuit of some answers. Weaving together a fantastic cast of eccentrics and obsessives, industry magnates and small farmers, the author explores the way technological change, opinionated critics, consumer trends, wheelers and dealers, trade wars, and mass market tastes have made the elixir we drink today...

A riveting tale of risk and obsession set in the alluring world of Macau s casinos, by the author of the critically acclaimed The Forgiven.

As night falls on Macau and the neon signs that line the rain-slick streets come alive, Doyle Lord Doyle to his fellow players descends into his casino of choice to try his luck at the baccarat tables that are the anchor of his current existence. A corrupt English lawyer who has escaped prosecution by fleeing to the East, Doyle spends his nights drinking and gambling and his days sleeping off his excesses, continually...

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Adrian Gyle, Engländer und seit zwei Jahrzehnten Journalist in Hongkong, steckt fest: Die große berufliche Karriere ist ausgeblieben, und die Tage plätschern für ihn oft im Fung Shing, dem Restaurant gleich um die Ecke, vor sich hin. Doch als er schon Pläne schmiedet, die einst so ausgelassene, optimistische Stadt zu verlassen, erhebt sich die Bevölkerung zu prodemokratischen Protesten, denen die chinesischen Behörden mit roher...

Since the days of the Early Fathers, sex and death have formed a theological equation known as sexual pessimism. This aversion to the carnal, and its consequent elevation of the virginal and the chaste, springs not from Christianity, but from Gnosticism.

Osborne examines the art, mythologies, and traditions of Christendom, and distinguishes thematic archetypes: the Virgin, the Witch, the Leper, the Noble Savage, the Jew, the...