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The Reluctant Cannibals by Ian Flitcroft (view source)
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|date=October 2013
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|summary=A jolly group of Oxford dons sets up a taboo-shattering secret dining society in the late 1960s. English eccentricity is at its finest in this surprisingly delightful debut.
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Over a truffled turkey at their college Christmas dinner in 1964, a group of Oxford dons decide to join their love of fine food and drink with their mutual appreciation for nineteenth-century French philosopher of food Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (author of the 1825 classic ''La Physiologie du Goût'', or ''The Physiology of Taste'') by forming a secret dining society. Together these fellows of St Jerome's College form the Shadow Faculty of Gastronomic Science, a group that will continue meeting to share new and daring culinary experiences until Oxford agrees to set up a proper gastronomic school of its own.
It is easy to be prejudiced against both small independent publishers and debut novelists, but Legend Press and Ian Flitcroft confounded all my expectations with this thoroughly charming read. It is no surprise ''The Reluctant Cannibals'' is an Irish Writers' Centre Novel Fair Award winner and has also been shortlisted for the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award. Many thanks to Legend Press for providing a review copy.
Further reading suggestion: For another terribly funny and terribly English read, pick up [[Expo 58 by Jonathan Coe]]. We have had great luck with books from Legend Press before; why not try one of their other offerings, such as [[A is for Angelica by Iain Broome]] or [[Nutmeg by Maria Goodin]]? We can also offer you [[Savage Blood by Alex Chance]].
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