Anthony Bourdain is an unapologetic, loud-mouthed, straight-talking, rough-around-the-edges pirate of the culinary seas, and this is where the joy in his autobiography lies.
Read MoreBook Drop // A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
What had initially been set up as a novel about class, ambition and society, is quietly subverted into one about abuse, suffering and the long road to recovery.
Read MoreBook Drop // Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie
Kamsie's novel reimagines the Greek tragedy 'Antigone' in the story of two British-Pakistani families divided over the fate of a rebel brother who has joined ISIS. The play's messy moral conflicts - of love and obligation, justice and law, family and country - are explored in modern London, in a layered tragedy of cultural tension and radicalisation.
Book Drop | Linton Kwesi Johnson
Today's drop features Linton Kwesi Johnson, also known as LKJ, a Jamaican dub poet and activist. Born in Jamaica in 1952, he has lived in London since 1963. His politically-charged verse, written in transcribed Jamaican patois, is often performed over dub-reggae.
Read MoreBooks | Good Morning Midnight by Jean Rhys
Good Morning, Midnight follows the escapades of Sasha Jansen, a middle-aged English woman returning to Paris after a prolonged absence. She brings with her the ghosts of an unhappy marriage, financial turmoil and the grief of losing a child.
Read More