The Kitchen Fiction and Memoir Book Club
By The Kitchen Table
The Kitchen Fiction and Memoir Book Club
By The Kitchen Table
In November 2024 we laid the table for the inaugural meeting of the Kitchen Table Book Club - a club that meets regularly to talk about books that have food, restaurants and cooking at their heart. Find our picks here. If you're further afield join in the discussion by finding us on Facebook.
The Briar Club
Kate Quinn
£9.99 £9.49July's pick for our bookclub. Washington, D.C., 1950 Everyone keeps to themselves at Briarwood House, an all-female boarding house in the heart of the US capital, where secrets hide behind respectable facades. But when the mysterious Grace March moves into the attic room, she draws her oddball collection of neighbours – a poised English beauty, a policeman’s daughter, a frustrated female baseball star, and a rabidly pro-McCarthy typist – into an unlikely friendship. Grace’s weekly attic-room dinner parties and window-brewed sun tea become a healing balm on all their troubled lives, but she hides a terrible secret of her own. And when a shocking act of violence tears the house apart, the Briar Club must decide once and for all: who is the true enemy in their midst? Capturing the paranoia of the McCarthy era and evoking the changing roles for women in postwar America, The Briar Club is an intimate and thrilling novel of secrets and loyalty put to the test.
Taste: My Life Through Food
Stanley Tucci
£10.99 £10.44Mr Tucci is irresistible. And so is this book. May's pick for our bookclub.
The Honesty Box
Lucy Brazier
£16.99 £16.14March into April's pick. Lucy will be joining us for in conversation on April 29th. Do join us if you're local. Tickets available via the shop or Eventbrite.
Comfort Eating: The Joy of Secret Snacks and Naughty Nibbles
Grace Dent
£10.99 £10.44December 2024's pick