A. A. Gill Livres

"For over twenty years, people turned to A. A. Gill's columns for his fearlessness, his perception, and the laughter-and-tear-provoking one-liners, but mostly because he was the best. There have been various collections of A. A. Gill's journalism, but there is no one volume that captures the whole range of his writing. This book encapsulates some of the very best of his work... Drawn from a range of publications, including The Sunday Times, Vanity Fair, Tatler and Australian Gourmet Traveller, The Best of A. A. Gill is by turns controversial, uplifting, unflinching, sad, funny and furious"--Cover.

A.A. Gill, a prominent critic and cultural commentator, captivates readers with his insightful essays and sharp observations. Known for his widely read columns in Britain, he has also garnered a dedicated audience in America through his works like The Angry Island and A.A. Gill is away. His unique voice and engaging writing style resonate with fans, establishing him as a significant figure in contemporary literary and cultural discourse.

A satire of manners about a garden in a West London square and the unlikely members of its garden committee.

The English are naturally, congenitally, collectively and singularly, livid much of the time. In between the incoherent bellowing of the terraces and the pursed, rigid eye-rolling of the commuter carriage, they reach the end of their tethers and the thin end of their wedges. They're incensed, incandescent, splenetic, prickly, touchy and fractious. They sit apart on their half of a damply disappointing little island, nursing and picking at their irritations. Perhaps aware that they're living on top of a keg of fulminating fury, the English have, throughout their history, come up with hundreds of ingenious and bizarre ways to diffuse anger or transform it into something benign. Good manners and queues, roundabouts and garden sheds, and almost every game ever invented from tennis to bridge. They've built things, discovered stuff, made puddings, written hymns and novels, and for people who don't like to talk much, they have come up with the most minutely nuanced and replete language ever spoken - just so there'll be no misunderstandings. In this hugely witty, personal and readable book, AA Gill looks anger and the English straight in the eye.

Think 'grand café' and the image that immediately springs to mind is a decadent, smoke-filled place populated by coffee-drinking thinkers, writers and artists in 1930s Europe. Along with the brasserie, the grand café combines an opulent setting exclusively for the everyman. Zédel is such a place. Housed in a 1915 hotel off London's Piccadilly Circus, it was restored to its former grandeur and re-opened in 2012 with all the charm and distinction of Art Deco Paris. In this book, A. A. Gill explores the origins of the grand café and pays homage to the character of Zédel. Much more than just a restaurant, Zédel houses a bustling café leading to a sweeping marble staircase, at the bottom of which are the Crazy Coqs cabaret, the Bar Américan cocktail bar, and the magnificent brasserie itself. Forty iconic brasserie recipes are included in the book, such as Soupe à l'oignon, Moules marinières, Boeuf bourgignon, Profiteroles and Tarte au citron. Period photography and artwork help to capture the mood of this remarkable and fascinating venue.

A.A. Gill was an exceptional writer. Savage and compassionate in equal measure, he was always opinionated, always original, often surprising, and his writing illuminated from the page.This book, the second posthumous collection of his journalism, brings together pieces from near and far. He was ferociously well travelled, and once wrote that for all our ability to cross the world at will, 'abroad is as foreign and funny and strange and shocking as it ever was, and our need to know our neighbours every bit as great'. This is a book about meeting those neighbours. Wherever he was - in London or the Kalahari, Benidorm or Beirut, with the glitterati in St Tropez or the nightclubs of Moscow, in the ruins of earthquake-struck Haiti or in a camp with the displaced Rohingya, he had the ability to pin down the heart of a story and render it unforgettable. He was a peerless writer about food, and so we also get to join him at tables all around the world, from a motorway service station cafe to the sophisticated delights of El Bulli. Fearless in his judgement, often provocative, and endlessly thought-provoking, he had the gift of making his readers see the world in a different way. And, always, of making them laugh. This collection is another opportunity to marvel at a master at work.

Das Wolseley ist eine feste Größe des Londoner gesellschaftlichen Lebens, hier trifft sich, wer in der Stadt Rang und Namen hat. Ein Aufenthalt in dem 1921 erbauten ehemaligen Show-Room der Luxuskarossen Wolseley Motors ist ein reines Vergnügen: der Service ist perfekt, das Silber glänzt einladend und die Eggs Benedict sind legendär. Alles, von der köstlichen Erdbeerkonfitüre bis zu den feinen Kuchen, wird im Hause selbst produziert. Ein Frühstück im Wolseley ist ein echtes Erlebnis, und da die vorderen Tische nicht reservierbar sind, ist ein Spontanbesuch jederzeit möglich. Natürlich auch zum Lunch, Tee oder Dinner. Mit 26 authentischen Rezepten.