A Signing with Nigel Slater

Please Note: this is not a public talk. This is a chance to meet the celebrated author, presenter, and food columnist Nigel Slater. 

He will be here at the bookshop chatting informally as he signs your book. There will be a glass of something sparkling and a chance to ask questions. This is the format he prefers, rather than addressing a large crowd.

Each £20 place includes a copy of the book and also admits up to three people.

'Nigel Slater's prose is the rarest delicacy of all: exquisite yet effortless, filled with heart, tenderness, yearning and humour. I feel so lucky to exist in a time when Slater is writing about what it is to be alive' Elizabeth Day

From award-winning food writer Nigel Slater, comes a new and exquisitely written collection of notes, memoir, stories and small moments of joy - A Thousand Feasts: Small Moments of Joy ... A Memoir of Sorts.

For years, Nigel Slater has kept notebooks of curiosities and wonderings, penned while at his kitchen table, soaked in a fisherman's hut in Reykjavik, sitting calmly in a moss garden in Japan or sheltering from a blizzard in a Vienna Konditorei.

These are the small moments, events and happenings that gave pleasure before they disappeared. Miso soup for breakfast, packing a suitcase for a trip and watching a butterfly settle on a carpet, hiding in plain sight. He gives short stories of feasts such as a mango eaten in monsoon rain or a dish of restorative macaroni cheese and homes in on the scent of freshly picked sweet peas and the sound of water breathing at night in Japan.

This funny and sharply observed collection of the good bits of life, often things that pass many of us by, is utter joy from beginning to end.

PRAISE FOR A THOUSAND FEASTS:

'I loved this. It is a secular book of hours - thoughts and pleasures beautifully cadenced and generously placed' Edmund de Waal

'Nigel Slater has a magical capacity to find beauty in the smallest moments. A nourishing, sustaining book' Olivia Laing

'The granular detail and the passion are obviously signature Slater, but this book feels different: a sort of timeless diary, with its glimpsed, generous offerings to the tired reader, who in days like ours might forget that there's still so much beauty to be had' Jessie Burton

Nigel Slater is a bestselling and award-winning author, journalist and television presenter. He has been the food columnist for the Observer for over thirty years and is one of Britain's most highly regarded food writers. His memoir Toast won six awards and became a film and stage production. In 2020, he was awarded an OBE for services to cookery and literature. He lives in London.