The Devil's Larder

Jim Crace is the author of "Being Dead" and "Quarantine" (shortlisted for the Booker Prize and winner of the Whitbread Novel of the Year). He is also a past winner of the Whitbread First Novel prize, the E.M. Forster Award and the Guardian Fiction Award.

A cumulative novel in 64 parts, all on the subject of food. Readers learn that little is to be trusted about food from these subversive ingredients, but there is also a touching patchwork portrait of a community where meals are served with passion and recipes come spiced with challenge and hope.THE DEVIL'S LARDER is a cumulative novel in sixty-four parts, all on the subject of food. 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.