Butter: The No. 1 Sunday Times Bestselling Sensation

The Number One Sunday Times Bestselling SensationWinner Of Waterstones Book Of The Year 2024Winner Of The British Book Awards Debut Novel Of The Year 2025Shortlisted For The Cwa Crime Fiction In Translation Dagger Award 2025A Bbc Between The Covers Book Club PickA FullFat, MichelinStarred Treat Sunday TimesA Cult Phenomenon InewsTook The Literary World By Storm BbcA Killer Japanese Novel The TimesI Have Been Glued To Butter Nigel SlaterThe 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 Is Said To Have Seduced With Her Delicious Home Cooking. The Case Has Captured The NationS Imagination But Kajii Refuses To Speak With The Press. That Is, Until Journalist Rika Machida Writes A Letter Asking For Her Recipe For Beef Stew And Kajii CanT Resist Writing Back.Rika, The Only Woman In Her News Office, Works Late Each Night, Rarely Cooking More Than Ramen. As The Visits Unfold Between Her And The Steely Kajii, They Are Closer To A Masterclass In Food Than Journalistic Research. Rika Hopes This Gastronomic Exchange Will Help Her Soften Kajii But It Seems That She Might Be The One Changing. With Each Meal She Eats, Something Is Awakening In Her Body. Might She And Kaji Have More In Common Than She Once Thought?Inspired By The Real Case Of The Convicted Con Woman And Serial Killer, The Konkatsu Killer, Asako YuzukiS Butter Is A Vivid, Gripping Exploration Of Misogyny, Obsession And The Transgressive Pleasures Of Food In Japan.It IsnT Entirely Clear Whether To Read The Novel Or Devour It ObserverReaders Around The World Are Finding Themselves Utterly CaptivatedDaily MailI Really Enjoyed It Meera Syal, On Bbc Between The CoversCompelling, Delightfully Weird Pandora SykesUnputdownable, Breathtakingly Original Erin KellyYouLl Be Craving Rice, Butter And Soy Sauce In No TimeStylistNothing Short Of Ingenious InewsAmbitious And UnsettlingGuardianLuscious I Devoured This Imogen CrimpA Salty Morsel With One Hell Of A Bite Alice Slater