Food Books
Kate Young’s gloriously thoughtful and nostalgic niche is taking the foods mentioned in fiction, eaten by some of our collective favourite characters in literature, and making them real and edible.
The Scotsman, October 2020
The Little Library Cookbook (2017)
Shortlisted for the Fortnum & Mason debut book award, winner of the World Gourmand prize for Food Writing, and one of the Guardian’s food books of the year in 2017. 100 recipes inspired by beloved novels.
The Little Library Year (2019)
”A wonderful, brilliant book. Instantly comforting, effortlessly beautiful and suffused with the generosity that's at the heart of any good meal” Ruby Tandoh.
Follows a year of eating and reading recommendations, and was shortlisted for the Guild of Food Writers’ General Cookbook prize.
The Little Library Christmas (2020)
A bestseller, reviewed in the TLS as “good for the armchair, good for the kitchen… transportive… enhancing and useful…. above all, a hopeful book”.
The Little Library Parties (2022)
Reviewed by Diana Henry in the Telegraph as “a great present for the literature-loving and the greedy”, and filled with delicious ideas for dinner parties, house parties, garden parties, and weddings.
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The Dinner Table: 100 Conversations About Food, an anthology I have edited alongside Ella Risbridger, will be released in October 2023.