Back in early 2015, the second year of this blog, I wrote about ‘bread’ in literature, focusing on one of the earliest novels in English, Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe, which was published in 1719. Continue reading “Bread – take 2”
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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 for a queen
In my last post I wrote about the use of food for diplomatic purposes in The Mirror and the Light, the final volume in Hilary Mantel’s Thomas Cromwell trilogy. Continue reading “Food for a queen”
Food and the crime novel
I love a good crime novel. Whether it be the detailed recounting of the evidence that leads Sherlock Holmes to his identification of the villain; the list of suspects in an Agatha Christie novel who all have a motive for committing the crime or the dark criminal underbelly of John Rebus’s Edinburgh in Ian Rankin’s contemporary fiction, crime novels have been a staple of my reading since my teenage years. Continue reading “Food and the crime novel”