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WATERSTONES BEST FICTION BOOKS OF 2023 PICK The Kamogawa Food Detectives, translated from Japanese by Jesse Kirkwood, is the first book in the bestselling, mouth-watering Japanese sleuthing series for fans of Before the Coffee Gets Cold. What’s the one dish you’d do anything to taste just...

Bloomsbury presents Free Food for Millionaires by Min Jin Lee, read by Jennifer Sun Bell. **FROM THE ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF PACHINKO** ‘This big, beguiling book has all the distinguishing marks of a Great American Novel..’ The Times ‘Exquisitely evoked.’ USA Today ‘Ambitious and...

Beautifully read by Hanako Footman, actress and narrator of Four Seasons in Japan by Nick Bradley and Butter by Asako Yuzuki. The Menu of Happiness, translated from Japanese by Jesse Kirkwood, is the third book in the bestselling, delightful Japanese sleuthing series for fans of Before the...

Brought to you by Penguin. A dessert from the Hwawoldang is a ticket to a new life . . . Welcome to Hwawoldang, the pastry shop where every delicious bite comes with satisfaction for both the mouth and the soul . . . When twenty-seven-year-old Yeon-hwa loses her grandmother, the proprietor of...

Including an introductory letter written by the author, Hisashi Kashiwai. The Restaurant of Lost Recipes, translated from Japanese by Jesse Kirkwood, is the second book in the bestselling, mouth-watering Japanese sleuthing series for fans of Before the Coffee Gets Cold, and follows on from The...

Brought to you by Penguin. WINNER OF THE 2022 AKUTAGAWA PRIZE The power dynamics of the office are never more obvious than when it comes to food: mandatory lunches with the boss, the colleague who tries to curry favour with home-baked goods, discovering the discarded remnants of someone else's...

A thrilling and ominously prophetic debut set in a world when Earth and its resources have been pushed to breaking point, giving rise to a revolutionary—and highly controversial—procedure in which two people’s consciousness can be combined to exist in one body. How far would you go to...

The trip of a lifetime! Rosie Lewis has her life together. A swanky job as a Michelin-starred Sous Chef, a loving husband and future children scheduled for an exact date. That’s until she comes home one day to find her husband’s pre-packed bag and a confession that he's had an affair...

Freya Braithwaite knows she is lucky. Nineteen years of marriage to a man who still warms her soul and two beautiful teenage daughters to show for it: confident Charlotte and thoughtful Lexi. Her home is filled with love and laughter. But when Lexi's struggles with weight take control of her life, everything Freya once took for granted falls apart, leaving the whole family with a sense of helplessness that can only be confronted with understanding, unity and, above all, love.

Laura Patterson is an American exchange student in Rome who, fed up with being inexpertly groped by her young Italian beaus, decides there's only one sure-fire way to find a sensual man: date a chef. Then she meets Tomasso, who's handsome, young, and cooks in the exclusive Templi restaurant. Perfect. Except, unbeknownst to Laura, Tomasso is in fact only a waiter at Templi; it's his shy friend Bruno who is the chef.

It's New Year's Eve, the holiday of forced fellowship, mandatory fun, and paper hats. While dining out with her husband and their friends, Kirshenbaum's protagonist - an acerbic, mordantly witty, and clinically depressed writer - fully unravels. Propelled by stand-up comic timing and rife with pinpoint insights, Kirshenbaum examines what it means to be unloved and loved, to succeed and fail, to be at once impervious and raw. Rabbits for Food shows how art can lead us out of - or into - the depths of disconsolate loneliness and piercing grief. 

Inspired by the exploits of ill-fated country-rock visionary Gram Parsons, this mid-60s tale of idealism and escape traces the trials of a fictionalized draft-dodging flower child from the United States to Canada and back.

Brought to you by Penguin. What if Andy Sachs found a job in a test kitchen ... When twenty-something Isabella Pasternack is fired from her job at a digital food magazine, she accepts a thankless job for the paycheck: ghostwrite the very past-due cookbook for a once-beloved thirty-something...

Bloomsbury presents Aftertaste by Daria Lavelle, read by Ari Fliakos, Tessa Albertson, André Santana, and Kristen Sieh. ‘Practically exploding with love, life and flavour’ LOUISE KENNEDY ‘Bitingly inventive, written with humour and heart’ ELIZABETH DAY ‘A hauntingly evocative journey...

Charmant, unterhaltsam, rührend und mit viel japanischem Flair Nagare und seine zwanzigjährige Tochter Koishi betreiben ein kleines Restaurant in Kyoto, das Kamogawa-Café. Kaum jemand kennt das Lokal, doch wer es dringend braucht, der findet es. Neben den traditionellen Köstlichkeiten der...

Nudelsuppe für die Seele – Bestseller aus Japan In ihrem kleinen Lokal in Kyoto bieten der pensionierte Kommissar Nagare Kamogawa und seine Tochter Koishi einen besonderen Service an: Zu ihnen kommen Gäste, die ein bestimmtes Gericht aus ihrer Vergangenheit suchen, das sie seitdem nie wieder...

""Buttery passages are slathered with food imagery, and Scott conjures markets, pantries, and laden tables you won’t want to leave. A sweet treat of a book."" — Kirkus Reviews With delectable prose, a sharp heroine ahead of her time, and an adventure across the English countryside in search...

Hayley Powell, food and cocktails columnist for Bar Harbor's Island Times, is...well, kind of broke. So when she's selected for that extreme coupon-clipping reality game show coming to town...she's thrilled, especially when her competition is nasty nurse Candace Culpepper. But when Haley stumbles across a face-down-in-the-snow Candace - scissors gleaming between her shoulders - she knows the next thing she'll be selected for will probably be a police line-up.

Who better than food and cocktails columnist Hayley Powell to book a caterer for the Island Times holiday party? But Hayley's quest for a cook turns into the pursuit of a killer who caters to no one.... 

家常菜是什么味道？是呼朋唤友时的觥筹交错，是合家欢聚时的围桌而坐，是洗尽铅华后的平淡随心。在酸甜苦辣的记忆片段里，总有一道菜会让你想起某个人，勾起某段回忆……家常菜是什麼味道？是呼朋喚友時的觥籌交錯，是合家歡聚時的圍桌而坐，是洗盡鉛華後的平淡隨心。在酸甜苦辣的記憶片段裡，總有一道菜會讓你想起某個人，勾起某段回憶……