Appetite

A delicious and mouth-watering read, this is a novel which engages all the senses. * NEW BOOKS MAGAZINE * Intense, sprawling and most convincing * SYDNEY MORNING HERALD * Kazan brings medieval Italy to life with an astonishing degree of historical detail. Appetite has the vivid colours of Tracy Chevalier's Girl With a Pearl Earring and the sharp odours of Patrick Suskind's Perfume . . . Readers will certainly come away with an appetite for more. * WE LOVE THIS BOOK * Ambitious and engrossing . . . a novel of exceptional energy and colour * BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE * APPETITE by Philip Kazan has had me salivating. Yes Kazan writes good food . . . [Florence] is wonderfully evoked . . . Delicious stuff. * BIG ISSUE * Kazan's rich, sensuous prose is always a pleasure. * SUNDAY TIMES * A celebration of the senses: what Patrick Suskind's Perfume did for scents, this does for flavours. A love story which will also appeal to fans of Joanne Harris' CHOCOLAT . . . The ultimate foodie version of Perfume, this is an addictive page-turner filled with lavish literary gastro-porn. -- Viv Groskop * RED * This intense, sprawling and addictive page-turner filled with often sensuous prose engages all the senses and is a triumph of energy and colour which brings medieval Italy to life. If you like an intelligent, engaging and exquisitely written story as a change from the drab brutality of modern crime, settle down with a good bottle of wine and enter Nino's world. * CRIME REVIEW UK *