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Gill delights in decoding what lies behind the food on our plates: famously, his reviews are as much ruminations on society at large as they are about the restaurants themselves. So alongside the concepts, customers, and cuisines, ten years of writing about restaurants has yielded insights on everything from yaks to cowboys, picnics to politics.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTable Talk\u003c\/i\u003e is an idiosyncratic selection of A.A. Gill's writing about food, taken from his Sunday Times and Tatler columns. Sometimes inspired by the traditions of a whole country, sometimes by a single ingredient, it is a celebration of what great eating can be, an excoriation of those who get it wrong, and an education about our own appetites. Because it spans a decade, the book focuses on A.A. Gill's general dining experiences rather than individual restaurants - food fads, tipping, chefs, ingredients, eating in town and country and abroad, and the best and worst dining experiences. 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Gill is hopelessly, painfully funny.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHe is one of a tiny band of must-read journalists, and it is always a disappointment when the words \u003ci\u003eA.A. Gill is Away\u003c\/i\u003e appear at the foot of his column. This book is the fruit of those absences: 22 long travel pieces that belie his reputation as a mere style journalist and master of vitriol. This is travel writing of the highest quality and ambition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47072113393900,"sku":"9780753816813","price":27.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/10267893482456.jpg?v=1765078084"},{"product_id":"aa-gill-is-further-away-by-adrian-gill-9780753829295","title":"A.A. Gill is Further Away","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the moment he joined The Sunday Times, A.A. Gill has wanted to interview places — to discover the personality of a place as if it were a person, to listen and talk to it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA selection of the very best pieces that Gill has written over the past five years, \u003cem\u003eA.A. Gill is Further Away\u003c\/em\u003e is a wonderfully insightful and funny compendium of travel writing taken mostly from The Sunday Times, but also from GQ, Tatler and Conde Nast Traveller.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eGill writes with a clarity and acerbity that conveys the intensity of his experiences in his travels around the world. His book includes essays on Sudan, India, Cuba, Germany and California. 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This is the definitive collection of a voice that was silenced too early but that can still make us look at the world in new and surprising ways.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn the words of Andrew Marr, A. A. Gill was 'a golden writer'. There was nothing that he couldn't illuminate with his dazzling prose. Wherever he was—at home or abroad—he found the human story, brought it to vivid life, and rendered it with fierce honesty and bracing compassion. And he was just as truthful about himself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThere have been various collections of A. A. Gill's journalism—individual compilations of his restaurant and TV criticism, of his travel writing and his extraordinary feature articles. 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