Jim Crace is the author of "Being Dead" and "Quarantine" (shortlisted for the Booker Prize and winner of the Whitbread Novel of the Year). He is also a past winner of the Whitbread First Novel prize, the E.M. Forster Award and the Guardian Fiction Award.

A cumulative novel in 64 dark, unsettling tales through which Crace explores our foibles through our relationship with food. A critically acclaimed patchwork portrait of a community where meals are served with lashings of passion and recipes come spiced with unexpected challenges and hopes.

Jim Crace is the author of six novels, including BEING DEAD and before that QUARANTINE which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won the Whitbread Novel of the Year. He is also a past winner of the Whitbread First Novel Prize, the E.M. Forster Award and the Guardian Fiction Award. He lives in Birmingham with his wife and two children.