Roald Dahl meets American Psycho in a gripping tale about the filth behind fine dining
There are no ghosts, there are only stories too stubborn to die
There was a time when everyone in the country knew my name. I was the greatest chef in the world. But today no-one has heard of Killian Lone. This is my story. It must be told, now, for the final time. It begins in my boyhood. In this very kitchen…
“Hell’s kitchen has a new head chef – Max Mann is one of the most compellingly repulsive villains in recent fiction and I rooted for his whipping-boy turned nemesis, Killian Lone, on every page. This is a pitch-dark, highly original fable about family, ambition and the redemptive power of cooking. By turns enchanting and grotesque, I couldn’t tear myself away from it.” Erin Kelly, author of The Poison Tree
There are no ghosts, there are only stories too stubborn to die
There was a time when everyone in the country knew my name. I was the greatest chef in the world. But today no-one has heard of Killian Lone. This is my story. It must be told, now, for the final time. It begins in my boyhood. In this very kitchen…
“Hell’s kitchen has a new head chef – Max Mann is one of the most compellingly repulsive villains in recent fiction and I rooted for his whipping-boy turned nemesis, Killian Lone, on every page. This is a pitch-dark, highly original fable about family, ambition and the redemptive power of cooking. By turns enchanting and grotesque, I couldn’t tear myself away from it.” Erin Kelly, author of The Poison Tree
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Reviews
Painless entertainment - this is a fine, well-crafted debut
Dazzling! Killian Lone is Perfume for the Gordon Ramsay generation.
A wonderful, dark story weaving fictionalised grotesque with true kitchen horror stories - this isn't the sort of story you forget in a hurry
An intensely gripping tale of love, loss, ambition and ego - epic themes play themselves out to their inexorable, gut-wrenching finale.
Excruciatingly vivid - always engaging
No writer has a better way with the supernatural.