Lana Citron Book order

Literary Nonfiction. Aimed at the more discerning gourmand, EDIBLE PLEASURES offers an irresistible guide to the unbreakable bond between food and love. From the poetic to the philosophical, the absurd to the abstruse, indulge in scientific, gastronomic and cultural histories, accompanied by an A-Z of aphrodisiacs with a side order of seductive recipes. Lovingly combining delicacies from The Taste of a Kiss by Martial to Madame Pompadour's Asparagus Tips, by way of South Park's "Salty Chocolate Balls," EDIBLE PLEASURES is the definitive textbook on food, passion, love and desire.

From first kisses to missed kisses, stolen kisses, the chemistry of kisses, around-the-world kisses, silver-screen kisses, Freudian kisses, lipstick kisses and record-breaking kisses, this eclectic collection of facts, figures, quotes and curiosities has everything you've ever wanted to know—and more—about that most deceptive, delightful and indispensable gesture: the kiss.

Ed has had enough. Sal betrayed him once too often with Rob, her ex-boyfriend. So he killed her. To save her from herself. Determined to exact his warped revenge 'in memory of Sal who couldn't say no', Ed finds himself trying to cross town at 2am on Valentine's day, the day of Rob's wedding, accompanied by a prostitute called Angel and a cabless Russian cab driver called Fisher. Full of bizarrely recognizable characters from the emotional twilight, and illustrated with Ed's own photographs of the journey, TRANSIT is a road novel of the heart - albeit one in need of a bypass. Travelling by pizza-scooter and nightbus, Citron takes us through the sexy sleaze (and sleazy sex) of the city at night, in her most original and exciting novel yet.