Bee Wilson Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Bee Wilson

BREADSONG is a moving cookbook and memoir whose title refers to the crackling, hissing noise the loaves make when they’re just out of the oven. I’m so looking forward to interviewing its authors, Kitty and Al Tait at ⁦@camlitfest⁩ on 23rd April. Tickets available. https://t.co/d6fuQcQoLs

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This is one of the most moving & extraordinary pieces of reportage I’ve ever read. INVISIBLE CHILD by Andrea Elliott. The story of poverty in New York told through the eyes of one child, called Dasani after the water. It’s published in the U.K. on Thursday ⁦@HutchHeinemann⁩ https://t.co/HmeunOBf3y

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'With the exception of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story and possibly Frasier, Dostoevsky’s novel Crime and Punishment,...ranks as the most successful spin-off in the history of Western culture'. @leorobsonwriter on Dostoevsky, whose 200th birthday was yesterday. https://t.co/HXyjIYCc0T

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I agree with this review of A Lonely Man by @chris_power: a plot-driven thriller that is also something 'self-questioning' and deeper. It's one of the most readable books I've read this year - cinematic post-Le Carre scenes of paranoia in Berlin - but it also stays with you. https://t.co/d8ibYmGMwW

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How do we sense creaminess, grittiness or smoothness in our mouths? And why does texture aka mouthfeel give us such strong feelings? A brilliant episode of ⁦@Gastropodcast⁩ featuring Ole Mouritsen and others. https://t.co/tzmrd0Kmmm

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‘I go back to The Slaves of Solitude by Patrick Hamilton, where Miss Roach’s constrained and valiant adventures at the Rosamund Tea Rooms, a guest house in a small English town in 1943 delight and horrify’. @SusieBoyt on her reading life https://t.co/5KK1Goy0zR

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Returning to the subject of comfort cooking, I keep forgetting to say how much I loved this, from Ella Risbridger. The Year of Miracles, a follow-up to her equally wonderful book Midnight Chicken. Spotted here in @heffersbookshop Cambridge, in good company with Claudia Roden. https://t.co/hGhCnyRELk

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These are the two books on dementia (in proof form). I recommend both of them highly, especially Travellers to Unimaginable Lands by Dasha Kipur, a book so quietly profound I feel everyone should read it, whether you have a family member with dementia or not. https://t.co/q64F2UKPMI

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This is such a joy! Just the book to ease into the comforts of autumn... @helen_goh_bakes’s first solo book (after two collaborations with @ottolenghi, SWEET and COMFORT). I can’t think of anyone whose baking recipes make me as consistently happy as Helen’s.

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So sad about the death of Joan Didion. I think of her every time I eat congee because of what she writes in The Year of Magical Thinking about the 'instinctive wisdom of a friend who, every day for those first few weeks' when she was grieving brought her scallion &ginger congee. https://t.co/oUlpIjj5d8