A moveable feast blog

Madeleine Feeny

The Pastry Chef's Guide by Ravneet Gill

A sumptuous new baking cookbook equips Josie Graves to conquer her fear of pastry I work with cookbooks every day and this is without a...

Madeleine Feeny

Everything Is Under Control by Phyllis Grant

A memoir with recipes, for Readers of Ella Risbridger, Nora Ephron and M.F.K. Fisher Prufrock measured life in coffee spoons; Phyllis...

Madeleine Feeny

Eating in a Crisis: How to Cook A Wolf by M.F.K. Fisher

‘You can still live with grace and wisdom .... to keep the wolf from snuffling too hungrily through the keyhole' M. F. K. Fisher knew how...

Madeleine Feeny

How to Pronounce Knife by Souvankham Thammavongsa

'I opened my mouth wide, saw the hot, wet, pink flesh, and the dark centre where my voice came out of, and I laughed, loud and wild' The...

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Winter in Sokcho by Elisa Shua Dusapin, tr. Aneesa Abbas Higgins

‘He'd never understand what Sokcho was like. You had to be born here, live through the winters. The smells, the octopus. The isolation’...

Madeleine Feeny

Topics of Conversation by Miranda Popkey

‘conversation is flirtation. Tease out enough rope and the listener, she’ll hang on your every word. Though it’s true: usually I am the...

Madeleine Feeny

Exciting Times by Naoise Dolan

Steeped in millennial angst, this waspishly droll debut explores sexuality, class and language – while enjoying the double-edged rewards...

Madeleine Feeny

My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell

‘There must be a point where you’re allowed to be defined by something other than what he did to you' How does an abusive relationship...