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Dark Puss

Stock photographs? Yes it was an amusing post but it shows a curious lack of appreciation for what is actually out there. There are some fabulous stock pictures, all it takes is some effort and an appropriate designer's eye to make good use of them. Given some of the poor covers with "bespoke" photographs I'm not convinced!

PS I'm sure I'm being really stupid here, but what did you mean by Marc Fitten's second novel - Valeria's Last Stand was his first?

Cornflower

I think the post to which I linked was commenting less on the quality of stock photographs than on the inappropriateness of the results (in terms of potential book jacket usage) which come up in response to a search using a favourite book title - as the post suggests, I tried it myself and got very mixed results.
Elza's Kitchen is Marc Fitten's second novel, Valeria's Last Stand being his first.

Dark Puss

Ah I read the post differently. Thank you for answering my second question too!

Alex in Leeds

I've added this to my wishlist after seeing Claire at The Captive Reader mention it and link to this post. I spent a whole fabulous summer exploring Hungary a decade ago and came away loving the country so this sounds wonderful. :)

Simon Savidge

This sounds right up my street at the moment as I have been looking for books with a foodie aspect for a new blog I will be starting with the other half on cooking and baking. I want to have foodie books on their too and maybe even a foodie monthly book club read, which this would be ideal for.

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