John Lanchester’s first novel is the fictional autobiography of gourmand, polymath and murderer Tarquin Winot, and is, as John Banville wrote in the Observer, ‘Coruscatingly, horribly funny … a cunning commentary on art, appetite, jealousy and failure. Tarquin is a splendid creation, genuinely learned (the scholarship is dazzling), poisonously bigoted and wholly mad.’

Pan Macmillan | Paperback 240 pp. |ISBN: 9780330344555