In a medieval cookbook in a special-collections library, near-future London, jaded food and drink authority Nick Kippax finds an alluring stain next to a recipe for the mythical crandolin. He tastes it, ravishing the page. Then he disappears...So begins an 'adwentour' that quantum-leapfrogs from Central Asia in the Middle Ages to Russia under Gorbachev, from the secrets of confectionery to the agonies of making a truly great moustache, from maidens in towers to tiffs between cosmic forces. Food, music, science, fruitloopery, superstition, railways, bladder-pipes and birth-marked Soviet statesmen; all are present in an extraordinary novel that is truly 'for the adwentoursomme'.
- ISBN10 1908178191
- ISBN13 9781908178190
- Publish Date 1 May 2014 (first published 14 November 2012)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 30 March 2015
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Chomu Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 382
- Language English