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HOW TO EAT YOUR HUSBAND Natalie Young's novel is a darkly comic housewife's guide to cannibalism    “Natalie Young and I are in a Borough Market café chatting about her book Season to Taste. It's not long before our talk turns – to the obvious alarm and discomfort of a couple of elderly ladies perched nearby – to the various ways of preparing and eating your murdered husband’s body. Will olive oil and salt help make the skin crispy?  What is the ideal sauce to go with slow-roasted thighs? How to best tenderise the grizzled bits around the feet?  “You know,” Young announces at one point, a wicked smile playing across her face. “One of my friends told me he actually salivated whilst reading a couple of chapters.  He thought the idea of crispy brains, noodles, soy sauce and red cabbage was really rather yummy.” MORE >

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SEDITION by Katharine Grant In Katharine Grant's Sedition, four families decide to prepare their daughters for the bridal market. They are newly-rich men in late 17th-century London who know that class matters, and they are determined that their daughters will marry into the upper echelons. They decide to give a music recital where their daughters will play the new-fangled piano and showcase their worth and wealth as prospective wives.   Having hit upon a plan, they employ a music teacher to turn their daughters into accomplished musicians. Nearly every character in this book desires a massive change in their lives and this stench of desperation seeps throughout the book, with its dark, dirty, bat-infested music rooms and dingy salons: everything is cheap and grubby.  Superficially, Sedition is about unrequited love and sexual awakening, but in reality this is a tale of silence and power, revenge, manipulation and a desire to get what you want at any cost. MORE >