I resist the urge to chuckle, hearing the sharp intake of breath as a handful of his very dark chocolate hits the mix. Telling me of life and death, dark and light and their relationship with the seasons. My mind goes back to the first my grandfather bought for me as a small girl, telling me the legend of Persephone and Hades, and Demeter’s search for her daughter.

I smile sweetly and look around for possible ingredients. “I thought this was some tried and tested thing?” I was right. “Are you sure that’s what it says in the recipe, Mum?” Several large glugs hit the pan along with a handful of fresh herbs from the garden.

He has wine… I taste it and cringe… a sweet dessert red. A good dash of blackcurrant cordial just felt like the right thing to do… “Did I just see what I thought I saw?” There is, possibly, just a trace of panic in my son’s voice. Goujons of venison now brown gently in a pan with garlic and onions, the mushrooms softening in the juices and olive oil. I collect some tiny mushrooms en route, on the general principle that I am probably going to need them. I just have to cook it when I get there… hoping, of course, the right ingredients are in the house. Of course, it could be a nice lean fillet or a whole ruddy haunch for all I know. So says my son, temporarily Faith-less while she is away on a sculpture course.Īny idea how he would like it cooked? Hmm, didn’t think so. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.Still life with mushrooms and chillies. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. This tale of hobgoblins and dragons is his first work of fiction. William Croft Dickinson was a leading scholar of Scottish history who also wrote children's fantasy novels and ghost stories. Complete with the good only original illustrated dustwrapper which has loss to the spine tips, tears and chips with associated creasing to the edges, the front flap presumable has been repaired with multiple pieces of tape at the fold. The contents, with a contemporary ownership inscription to the front free endpaper, are otherwise clean and bright throughout. A very good copy, the binding square and firm, the extremities of the cloth a touch rubbed, the top corners with very minor bumping. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece and black and white in-text drawings throughout by John Morton-Sale. Original blue cloth with titles in black to the spine and a motif in black to the upper board, in dustwrapper.

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