The Debt to Pleasure

First edition. 8vo. Pp. [viii], 232. Black cloth boards lettered in silver to spine; title page printed in black and red. 1/10,000 copies printed, split between Macmillan's (Export) edition – bearing a different ISBN, copyright page, and unpriced wrapper flap – and its Picador imprint, reserved for sale in the U.K.

Signed by Author to title page.

Winner of the 1996 Whitbread Best First Novel Award and the 1997 Hawthornden Prize. A New York Times Notable Book. An 'unconventional' cookbook-cum-memoir constructed around a series of seasonal menus, and narrated by Tarquin Winot, an ironist, epicurean and a snob. First book by a former restaurant critic of the Observer. "A novel masquerading as an essay masquerading as a cookbook, and it somehow manages to combine the virtues of all three." –The New Yorker