A good explanation of Eloquent for Laravel 5.2

I am learning Laravel 5.2 and can see the huge potential of Eloquent, but I find some of the tutorials rather assuming that one understands things. For example I have a table authors and a table items. Obviously authors has many items and items have 1 author.

The various examples and videos tend to jump over this and what I would like to understand is the rules and a good source for setting up the relationships and more complex queries otherwise I will have to resort to using PDO classes of a more trandition manner.

Can someone recommend something please?

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