Many reading groups take culinary inspiration from the books they are reading and this month we will be looking at a mouth watering selection of fiction...
When Annie Hawes buys a hillside cottage in Italy for no more than the price of a dodgy second-hand car, a capable young Englishwoman becomes a surprisingly incapable Ligurian signorina …
Bound together since childhood by the sudden death of their baby brother, Isabel and Nina know too much about one another, and their knowledge could destroy their adult lives. When Nina embarks on an affair with Isabel's husband, the fuse is lit and the past is suddenly alive and dangerous.
In sixty-four dark, unsettling and tender tales, Jim Crace explores our human foibles – our loves, hates, hopes and desires – through our relationship with food.
This book may all start out innocently enough, but all is not as it seems, as we soon discover that the local coffee shop holds more secrets than we could have imagined. Under the respectful exteriors lie well-kept pasts that constantly threaten to creep up and play havoc with the present.
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