A few years ago, I wrote a post on ‘Food and the crime novel’, focused on Agatha Christie’s clever mystery The Murder of Roger Ackroyd and the way a meal in that novel illustrates the deception which is a hallmark of crime fiction. Continue reading “The chef as detective”
Category: 21st century fiction
Eating during the Troubles
In my last post I wrote about Paul Lynch’s Booker prize-winning novel Prophet Song set in a near-future dystopian Ireland. We stay with Ireland for this post about Louise Kennedy’s 2022 novel Trespasses, though Trespasses, shortlisted for the Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize, is set in Northern Ireland (not the Republic) and in the past, the 1970s, during what is commonly referred to as ‘The Troubles’. Continue reading “Eating during the Troubles”
Food as a source of comfort
I’ve written previously about food in dystopian literature, using George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four as my chosen text. Continue reading “Food as a source of comfort”
Food and loss
Jyoti Patel’s debut novel, The things that we lost, explores the idea of loss in a number of different ways. Continue reading “Food and loss”