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Out in paperback - my novel of the year

JS's Feast   

    My 'novel of the year' last year was Lawrence Norfolk's John Saturnall's Feast, and as the paperback edition has just been published, I wanted to mention the book again today.

    If you haven't already heard of it you may like to see my post on it which explains why I thought it was so special.

07 May 2013 in Historical fiction, Period/historical fiction |

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Fay

I read this book at a time when culinary history was taking up a lot of my reading time, and it was a perfect pairing. Very enjoyable read.

Posted by: Fay | 07 May 2013 at 10:08 PM

Chris

This is in my ever growing TBR pile, I must push it further to the top.

Posted by: Chris | 08 May 2013 at 11:58 AM

Mystica Varathapalan

Now to get to this book!

Posted by: Mystica Varathapalan | 08 May 2013 at 01:12 PM

Erika

I'm ashamed--I bought it on your recommendation and some newspaper reviews, began to read it and put it down after a few pages. Now I have to go and find it (easy, luckily) and I will start it this afternoon once more.

Posted by: Erika | 08 May 2013 at 03:31 PM

Sarie

And it's only £1.09 on Amazon kindle at the moment!

Posted by: Sarie | 08 May 2013 at 03:44 PM

Cornflower

Bargain!

Posted by: Cornflower | 08 May 2013 at 08:34 PM

Cornflower

Funnily enough, I had to put it down just a short way in and then didn't get back to it for months, but when I did pick it up again I quickly became happily immersed in it. I hope you will enjoy it, Erika.

Posted by: Cornflower | 08 May 2013 at 08:36 PM

Cornflower

It's too good to overlook.

Posted by: Cornflower | 08 May 2013 at 08:36 PM

Cornflower

Glad you thought so, Fay.

Posted by: Cornflower | 08 May 2013 at 08:37 PM

Marybel

Reading is so personal. I read this following your praise but wondered what was wrong that it did not get the buzz you felt. My book of last year was Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal. It bounded off the pages at me and it resonates still. In the last week I have read The Reluctant Fundamentalist which was short and powerful.

Posted by: Marybel | 08 May 2013 at 11:06 PM

Cornflower

You are right about reading being personal, Marybel! I suppose J.S's Feast is very much 'my' type of book.

Posted by: Cornflower | 10 May 2013 at 03:34 PM

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