Culinary Charmers of 2013

Critic and ardent home cook Heller McAlpin recommends new cookbooks whose winning voices and visual delights are just as beguiling as the dishes they highlight.  

Saved by Scrooge

December 17: ‘I have endeavoured in this Ghostly little book, to raise the Ghost of an Idea, which shall not put my readers out of humour…”  

Thank You for Your Service

Embedding himself into the lives of demobbed soldiers and their families, David Finkel manages to convey all the excruciating trials and tribulations, glories and gratitudes of the modern military.

Gilgi

With its first presentation in English, Irmgard Keun’s revolutionary and audacious 1931 novel about a little shopgirl who dared should now find the wider audience it fully deserves.