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Butter is the kind of novel that sneaks up on you. You think you’re reading a true-crime story about a woman accused of murdering men with her cooking, and then suddenly you’re knee-deep in questions about appetite, femininity, power, and why women are taught to be ashamed of wanting anything at all.
Asako Yuzuki uses food as both pleasure and weapon. Every recipe feels lush and intimate, but also slightly menacing. The real tension isn’t did she do it? so much as why does society need her to be a monster? The novel is at its sharpest when it skewers misogyny, fatphobia, and the way women’s bodies are treated as public property.
It’s not a fast thriller and it doesn’t offer neat answers. Instead, Butter simmers—rich, unsettling, and satisfying. You’ll finish it hungry, a little angry, and far more aware of how often women are punished simply for having an…
'Compelling, delightfully weird, often uncomfortable' PANDORA SYKES
'Unputdownable, breathtakingly original' ERIN KELLY
'I have been glued to Asako Yuzuki's new novel Butter' NIGEL SLATER
'A full-fat, Michelin-starred treat'
THE TIMES
The cult Japanese bestseller about a female gourmet cook and serial killer and the journalist intent on cracking her case, inspired by a true story, and translated by Polly Barton.
There are two things that I can simply not tolerate: feminists and margarine.
Gourmet cook Manako Kajii sits in Tokyo Detention Centre convicted of the serial murders of lonely businessmen, who she…
The Victorian mansion, Evenmere, is the mechanism that runs the universe.
The lamps must be lit, or the stars die. The clocks must be wound, or Time ceases. The Balance between Order and Chaos must be preserved, or Existence crumbles.
Appointed the Steward of Evenmere, Carter Anderson must learn the…
A frank, hopeful and darkly funny memoir of postpartum psychosis and recovery
'I do not know who I am anymore or where I have gone ...'
Ariane Beeston is a child protection worker and newly registered psychologist when she gives birth to her first child - and very quickly begins to experience scary breaks with reality. Out of fear and shame, she keeps her delusions and hallucinations secret, but as the months pass Ariane gets worse. Much worse. Finally admitted to a mother and baby psychiatric unit, the psychologist is forced to learn how to be the patient.
