The various flavours of coffee
By: Anthony Capella
Edition: Large print ed.
Publisher: W.F. Howes
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Rearsby
Language: eng
Number of pages: 681
ISBN-13: 9781407429250
Subjects: Coffee industry; Fiction; History; British; Slaves
Description: It is 1895. Robert Wallis, would-be poet, bohemian and impoverished dandy, accepts a commission from coffe merchaant Samuel Pinker to categorise the different tastes of coffee - and encounters Pinker's free-thinking daughters, Philomena, Ada and Emily. As romance blossoms with Emily, Robert realises that the muse and marriage may not be incompatible after all. Sent to Abyssinia to make his fortune in the coffee trade, he becomes obsessed with slave girl, Fikre. He decides to use the money he has saved to buy her from her owner - a decision that will change not only his own life, but the lives of the three Pinker sisters....
Notes: Originally published: London: Piatkus, 2008.