This novel caters not only for our taste buds, but also for our cultural, sexual and imaginative appetites. It provides a portrait of a community where meals are served with lashings of passion and recipes come spiced with unexpected challenges.

The Devil's Larder, another uniquely imaginative book from Jim Crace, is a cumulative novel in sixty-four parts, catering not only for our taste buds but also for our cultural, sexual and imaginative appetites. Crace's readers might learn that little is to be trusted about food from these hilarious, delightful and subversive ingredients, but they will encounter a startling and touching patchwork portrait of a community where meals are served with lashings of passion and recipes come spiced with unexpected challenges and hopes. Beware allergic reactions: The Devil's Larder may contain traces of nuts, genetically modified products and fatal toxins.