2. For more Regency recipes, you can go here: http://www.janeausten.co.uk/online-magazine/regency-recipes/. The Cookbook of Unknown Ladies is another gem, handwritten and filled with recipes from the early 1700s through the mid-nineteenth century: http://lostcookbook.wordpress.com/tag/regency-cookery/.
3. The author did a great deal of research into chefs of the Regency period, including the history and recipes of the most famous chef of that time, Antonin Carême. This three-and-a-half-minute snippet shows British chef Heston Blumenthal making one of Antonin Carême’s favorite recipes, cock’s testicles, which was the inspiration for the threat Georges makes to Jonathan Aldridge when he comes to speak to him about Gigi: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZCkW23Y8hQ.
4. For a virtual look at Tessin Palace in Stockholm, where Banquet of Lies opens, you can download this beautiful brochure of the palace and its gardens: http://www.lansstyrelsen.se/stockholm/SiteCollectionDocuments/Sv/publikationer/2012/tessinska-palatset-engelska-2.tr-2012.pdf.
AUTHOR PHOTOGRAPH BY DANIEL NAVARATNAM
MICHELLE DIENER is also the author of The Emperor’s Conspiracy and two Tudor novels, In a Treacherous Court and Keeper of the King’s Secrets. Born in London and raised in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, she now lives on the west coast of Australia with her family. Visit www.michellediener.com.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Diener, Michelle.
Banquet of lies / Michelle Diener. — 1st Gallery Books trade paperback edition.
p. cm.
1. Courts and courtiers—Fiction. 2. Great Britain—History—Henry VIII, 1509–1547—Fiction. I. Title. PR9619.4.D54B36 2013
823'.92—dc23
Designed by Jaime Putorti
Cover design by Laywan Kwan
Cover photograph © Margie Hurwich/Arcangel Images
ISBN 978-1-4516-8445-2
ISBN 978-1-4516-8446-9 (ebook)
CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Chapter 36
Author’s Note
Readers Group Guide
Topics and Questions for Discussion
Enhance Your Book Club
About Curtis Bunn