Crandolin

In a medieval cookbook in a special-collections library,near-futureLondon, jaded food and drink authority Nick Kippaxfinds an alluringstain next to a recipe for the mythicalcrandolin. He tastes it,ravishing the page. Then he disappears...So begins an 'adwentour'that quantum-leapfrogs from Central Asiain the Middle Ages toRussia under Gorbachev, from the secrets ofconfectionery to theagonies of making a truly great moustache,from maidens in towers totiffs between cosmic forces. Food, music,science, fruitloopery,superstition, railways, bladder-pipes andbirth-marked Sovietstatesmen; all are present in an extraordinarynovel that is truly'for the adwentoursomme'.