Animal, Vegetable, Miracle

Barbara Kingsolver's fourteen books of fiction, poetry and non-fiction include the novels the international bestseller The Poisonwood Bible, which is now considered a modern classic and was chosen as the best reading group novel ever at the Penguin/Orange Awards, and The Lacuna, which won the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2010. Her latest novel is Flight Behaviour.

A beautifully written plea for a return to authenticity in eating and food production. Irish Times Living off the land, and writing about it isn;t radical idea, but novelist Barbara Kigsolver gives old receipe a pleasurably folksy spin. Independent Warm and often hilarious. Daily Telegraph Like the best meals, this is a family affair, with contributions from Kingsolver's husband and elder daughter. But it's younger daughter Lily who steals the show. Observer Kingsolver returns again and again to subjects such as food miles and the use of pesticides, and on these occasions her folksy humour turns into something much more polemical. Sunday Times This is a rich rewarding book. The Times