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Cookery writer Jans Ondaatje Rolls throws new light on the Bloomsbury Group with a particular eye on what they were eating as they debated literature, life and the big issues of the time. Many of the biggest figures in early 20th-century art, literature and economics gathered round the Bloomsbury Group dining table, including E M Forster, Roger Fry, J M Keynes, Lytton Strachey and Virginia Woolf.

Rolls, also author of Bosham Bisque and Chester Chowder, tells the story of the Bloomsbury Group in a series of narratives accompanied by an appropriate recipe, sketches, paintings, photographs, quotations, letters and handwritten notes. The book contains more than 170 recipes from the personal recipe books of Bloomsbury Group members, including Frances Partridge, Helen Anrep, and David and Angelica Garnett, and from other contemporary sources. There will be an opportunity to taste food made from recipes in the book.

Rolls talks to Lucy Atkins, author of The Missing One. Atkins appears with India Knight on March 29 to discuss ‘domestic chillers’.