Test Kitchen is a darkly funny and often macabre story about the culture of food, of dining and eating, about feeding and nourishing, about mothers, mortality and magic. Stories are everywhere, but some places are a particular nexus for them. What appealed to me about setting my novel Test Kitchen in a high-end restaurant was that such places contain two distinct but interdependent spaces under one roof. There’s the kitchen, a highly pressurised environment where chefs are working non-stop to …
Month: June 2024
Commissario Guido Brunetti returns with a gripping case about the murkiness of power and a test of loyalties in A Refiner’s Fire, by Donna Leon. She shares a few words …
Books written by and from the perspective of refugees about the experience of emigration are often stories packed with emotion, hardship and triumph that offer fresh and deeply personal perspectives …
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