An authority on fine China Jul 28, 2009
The Oxford-born Mandarin-speaker, named after a character in Mervyn Peake s Titus Groan, has been hailed as the Western world s foremost exponent of Sichuan and Hunan cooking. She has produced two rapturously-received cookbooks about these regional cuisines: Sichuan Cookery and Revolutionary Chinese Cookbook. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
In ‘Thrumpton Hall’ and ‘A Meaningful Life,’ houses become twisted and comic obsessions Jul 12, 2009
nues; working-class upstarts and loyal retainers - that could have sprung from Mervyn Peake s Gormenghast trilogy. To touch on a few, we ll begin with Seymour s great-grandmother, the Honorable Ismay FitzRoy (1863--1952), distant, but proud scion of Charles II by one of his mistresses. (Boston Globe)
Ian M. Banks May 3, 2009
George Lucas, Alistair MacLean, Ken MacLeod, The Marx Brothers, Herman Melville, Sid Meier, Spike Milligan, Alan Moore (Watchmen and The Voice of the Fire), New Worlds magazine in its quarterly paperback incarnation between 1971 and 1975, Mervyn Peake (the Ghormenghast trilogy), various Plays For Today on BBC TV during the sixties (the only one I can remember the title of was, I think, called The Last Train Through the Harecastle Tunnel ) plus lots of TV in general - especially series like The... (Suite101.com)
