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The cook, food writer and restaurateur picks her favourites. Her latest book, “Mexican Table”, is out now, and she will be speaking at the Queen’s Park Book Festival<\/a> on 31 August.<\/p>\n

A Visit to Don Otavio<\/p>\n

Sybille Bedford, 1960
Bedford’s first published work is an extraordinary travelogue chronicling her intrepid travels through Mexico<\/a> in the 1950s. The descriptions of the food they eat at Don Otavio’s are a sheer delight; it was the first time I had heard of another European extolling Mexican food, and I couldn’t get enough of it.<\/p>\n

The God of Small Things <\/p>\n

Arundhati Roy, 1997
A stunning novel about a pair of twins, about love, loss and the impact of colonialism. I am a twin, so this book felt acutely personal (I had also just come back from Kerala, where it is set). I grew up on Latin American magical realism, which chimes beautifully with Indian literature of the same style, so I was completely won over.<\/p>\n

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Ultra-Processed People<\/p>\n

Chris van Tulleken, 2023
So many have been trying for so long to shine a light on the dark, unhealthy secrets behind Big Food, but Chris van Tulleken has managed to blast through the attempts to stifle debate in this brilliant, focused book. A must-read.<\/p>\n

The Girl with the Louding Voice<\/p>\n

Abi Dar\u00e9, 2020
I adored this tale of a Nigerian girl determined to throw off the chains put on her simply by virtue of being born a girl, and to find her voice through a tireless quest for an education.<\/p>\n

Barnaby Rudge<\/p>\n

Charles Dickens, 1841
Love, social unrest, mob uprisings against the system, the lure of populism, and brilliant descriptions of poverty \u2013 this novel has it all. I have discovered Dickens late in life and this is one of my favourites.<\/p>\n

Small Things Like These <\/p>\n

Claire Keegan, 2021
A beautiful gem of a novel about one man’s bravery in standing up against an unjust system. I read it in a day.<\/p>\n

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