Thousand Feasts

<p> <strong>THE INSTANT #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER</strong> </p><p> <strong>From award-winning writer Nigel Slater comes a new and exquisitely written collection of notes memoir stories and small moments of joy.</strong> </p><p>'Nigel Slater's prose is the rarest delicacy of all: exquisite yet effortless filled with heart tenderness yearning and humour' <strong>ELIZABETH DAY</strong></p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>'I loved this. It is a secular book of hours - thoughts and pleasures beautifully cadenced and generously placed' <strong>Edmund de Waal</strong></p><p>'Nigel Slater has a magical capacity to find beauty in the smallest moments. A nourishing sustaining book' <strong>Olivia Laing</strong></p><p>'His evocative uplifting observations are a balm for life: a prose-poem for eaters and a spiritual companion for thoughtful cooks. A true and enduring joy' <strong>Nigella Lawson</strong></p><p>'You can't always feel buoyant and grateful but noticing - and getting pleasure from - the seemingly insignificant is a good way to live. As he says feel the small moments of joy' <strong>Diana Henry</strong></p>