Mark Crick
Writer, photographer and artist returns to Port Eliot to cook recipes in the style of great writers in our Big Kitchen – this year he gives us Clafoutis Grandmere à la Virginia Woolf and Rosti à la Thomas Mann. After the success of his unique works of literary pastiche; Kafka’s Soup: A Complete History of World Literature in 17 Recipes and Sartre’s Sink: The Great Writers’ Complete Book of DIY, Mark’s new book Machiavelli’s Lawn will be published by Granta later this year.
Mark has also illustrated a mystical book, Le Messager, written by the well-known French author, Eliette Abécassis, and four of his works were recently featured in The Oxford Book of Parodies.
Aside from his love of literature, Mark has undertaken occupations in carpentry, teaching, and nursing, as well as working as a clerk. His writing ambitions were spurred on by a later career in freelance photojournalism where he helped produce features for the British press. He now lives in London, and his novels have been much applauded by the media, described as “stunning” by the Telegraph and “a miniature masterpiece” by the Daily Mail.
‘‘A merry little tome… a neat little pocket-sized pleasure”
Elizabeth Luard, the Oldie, in praise of Kafka’s Soup
“An amuse-bouche of a book”
New York Times
Links:
- The Sunday Times Review: Humour Book of The Year
- Independent’s Review of Kafka’s Soup
