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Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books

Scott's Last Biscuit(2004)Description / Buy at Amazon
The Frozen Ship(2006)Description / Buy at Amazon
Spilling the Beans(2010)Description / Buy at Amazon
Names for the Sea(2012)Description / Buy at Amazon
My Good Bright Wolf(2024)Description / Buy at Amazon

Publication Order of Edible Books

Hamburger (By: Andrew F. Smith)(2008)Description / Buy at Amazon
Pizza (By: Carol Helstosky)(2008)Description / Buy at Amazon
Pancake (By: Ken Albala)(2008)Description / Buy at Amazon
Chocolate(2009)Description / Buy at Amazon
Whiskey (By: Kevin R. Kosar)(2009)Description / Buy at Amazon
Spices (By: Fred Czarra)(2009)Description / Buy at Amazon
Curry (By: Colleen Taylor Sen)(2009)Description / Buy at Amazon
Cheese (By: Andrew Dalby)(2009)Description / Buy at Amazon
Pie (By: Janet Clarkson)(2009)Description / Buy at Amazon
Hot Dog (By: Bruce Kraig)(2009)Description / Buy at Amazon
Cake (By: Nicola Humble)(2010)Description / Buy at Amazon
Milk (By: Hannah Velten)(2010)Description / Buy at Amazon
Sandwich (By: Bee Wilson)(2010)Description / Buy at Amazon
Tea (By: Helen Saberi)(2010)Description / Buy at Amazon
Soup (By: Janet Clarkson)(2010)Description / Buy at Amazon
Lobster (By: Elisabeth Townsend)(2011)Description / Buy at Amazon
Ice Cream (By: Laura B. Weiss)(2011)Description / Buy at Amazon
Potato (By: Andrew F. Smith)(2011)Description / Buy at Amazon
Dates (By: Nawal Nasrallah)(2011)Description / Buy at Amazon
Bread (By: William Rubel)(2011)Description / Buy at Amazon
Apple (By: Erika Janik)(2011)Description / Buy at Amazon
Olive (By: Fabrizia Lanza)(2011)Description / Buy at Amazon
Champagne (By: Becky Sue Epstein)(2011)Description / Buy at Amazon
Herbs (By: Gary Allen)(2012)Description / Buy at Amazon
Gin (By: Lesley Jacobs Solmonson)(2012)Description / Buy at Amazon
Pork (By: Katharine M. Rogers)(2012)Description / Buy at Amazon
Rum (By: Richard Foss)(2012)Description / Buy at Amazon
Vodka (By: Patricia Herlihy)(2012)Description / Buy at Amazon
Lemon (By: Toby Sonneman)(2012)Description / Buy at Amazon
Pudding (By: Jeri Quinzio)(2012)Description / Buy at Amazon
Cocktails (By: Joseph M. Carlin)(2012)Description / Buy at Amazon
Wine (By: Marc Millon)(2013)Description / Buy at Amazon
Beef (By: Lorna Piatti-Farnell)(2013)Description / Buy at Amazon
Salmon (By: Nicolaas Mink)(2013)Description / Buy at Amazon
Oranges (By: Clarissa Hyman)(2013)Description / Buy at Amazon
Mushroom (By: Cynthia D. Bertelsen)(2013)Description / Buy at Amazon
Offal (By: Nina Edwards)(2013)Description / Buy at Amazon
Game (By: Paula Young Lee)(2013)Description / Buy at Amazon
Pineapple (By: Kaori O'Connor)(2013)Description / Buy at Amazon
Figs (By: David Sutton)(2014)Description / Buy at Amazon
Nuts (By: Ken Albala)(2014)Description / Buy at Amazon
Eggs (By: Diane Toops)(2014)Description / Buy at Amazon
Beer (By: Gavin D. Smith)(2014)Description / Buy at Amazon
Brandy (By: Becky Sue Epstein)(2014)Description / Buy at Amazon
Barbecue (By: Jonathan Deutsch,Megan J. Elias)(2014)Description / Buy at Amazon
Tequila (By: Ian Williams)(2014)Description / Buy at Amazon
Rice (By: Renee Marton)(2014)Description / Buy at Amazon
Sauces (By: Maryann Tebben)(2014)Description / Buy at Amazon
Truffle (By: Zachary Nowak)(2015)Description / Buy at Amazon
Sugar (By: Andrew F. Smith)(2015)Description / Buy at Amazon
Dumplings (By: Barbara Gallani)(2015)Description / Buy at Amazon
Water (By: Ian Miller)(2015)Description / Buy at Amazon
Lamb (By: Brian Yarvin)(2015)Description / Buy at Amazon
Doughnut (By: Heather Delancey Hunwick)(2015)Description / Buy at Amazon
Sausage (By: Gary Allen)(2015)Description / Buy at Amazon
Edible Flowers (By: Constance Kirker,Mary Newman)(2016)Description / Buy at Amazon
Fats (By: Michelle Phillipov)(2016)Description / Buy at Amazon
Banana (By: Lorna Piatti Farnell)(2016)Description / Buy at Amazon
Onions and Garlic (By: Martha Jay)(2016)Description / Buy at Amazon
Melon (By: Sylvia Lovegren)(2016)Description / Buy at Amazon
Pasta and Noodles (By: Kantha Shelke)(2016)Description / Buy at Amazon
Salad (By: Judith Weinraub)(2016)Description / Buy at Amazon
Chillies (By: Heather Arndt Anderson)(2016)Description / Buy at Amazon
Honey (By: Lucy M. Long)(2017)Description / Buy at Amazon
Moonshine (By: Kevin R. Kosar)(2017)Description / Buy at Amazon
Pomegranate (By: Damien Stone)(2017)Description / Buy at Amazon
Herring (By: Kathy Hunt)(2017)Description / Buy at Amazon
Oyster (By: Carolyn Tillie)(2017)Description / Buy at Amazon
Berries (By: Heather Arndt Anderson)(2018)Description / Buy at Amazon
Cabbage (By: Meg Muckenhoupt)(2018)Description / Buy at Amazon
Shrimp (By: Yvette Florio Lane)(2018)Description / Buy at Amazon
Seaweed (By: Kaori O'Connor)(2018)Description / Buy at Amazon
Sweets and Candy (By: Laura Mason)(2018)Description / Buy at Amazon
Coffee (By: Jonathan Morris)(2019)Description / Buy at Amazon
Biscuits and Cookies (By: Anastasia Edwards)(2019)Description / Buy at Amazon
Pickles (By: Jan Davison)(2019)Description / Buy at Amazon
Tomato (By: Clarissa Hyman)(2019)Description / Buy at Amazon
Mustard (By: Demet Güzey)(2019)Description / Buy at Amazon
Avocado (By: Jeff Miller)(2020)Description / Buy at Amazon
Beans (By: Natalie Rachel Morris)(2020)Description / Buy at Amazon
Saffron (By: Ramin Ganeshram)(2020)Description / Buy at Amazon
Vanilla (By: Rosa Abreu-Runkel)(2020)Description / Buy at Amazon
Yoghurt (By: June Hersh)(2021)Description / Buy at Amazon
Foie Gras (By: Norman Kolpas)(2021)Description / Buy at Amazon
Jam, Jelly and Marmalade (By: Sarah B. Hood)(2021)Description / Buy at Amazon
Soda and Fizzy Drinks (By: Judith Levin)(2021)Description / Buy at Amazon
Edible Insects (By: Gina Louise Hunter)(2021)Description / Buy at Amazon
Hummus (By: Harriet Nussbaum)(2021)Description / Buy at Amazon
Coconut (By: Constance L Kirker)(2022)Description / Buy at Amazon
Cod (By: Elisabeth Townsend)(2022)Description / Buy at Amazon
Cod: A Global History (By: Elisabeth Townsend)(2022)Description / Buy at Amazon
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Sarah Moss is an English author of nonfiction, literature and fiction books best known for her 2018 novel the Ghost Wall. She is an award-winning and bestseller author of six novels Night Waking, Cold Earth nominated for the 2011 Fiction Uncovered Award, and The Tidal Zone shortlisted for the Welcome Prize Award.

Born in Glasgow, Sarah relocated to Manchester where she spent her childhood and later left for Oxford at the age of eighteen. She spent the next ten years in Oxford studying Masters of Studies and D.Phil in English Literature. Sarah Moss became a published author in 2005 when Scott’s Last Biscuit, a nonfiction book was published. In 2009, she co-authored with Alexander Badenoch in writing non-fiction titled Chocolate.

Night Waking

Imagine Rachel Cusk and Peter May wrote a novel together, with some bits of help from Sarah Waters? Night Waking is that novel. The story has baby skeletons from Hebridean Islands; a half-crazed mother, a two-year-old who can’t sleep through the night, and letters from a 19th-century nurse.

We meet Anna Benet, trying to finish a book about 18th-century childhood and spending summer on the Hebridean Island with her two children. Her husband Giles works as an ornithologist and is the owner of the small island inherited from his father. The island has been in the family line since the 1830s and now almost completely deserted except for Giles family and the guests who visit the black house Giles had converted to a holiday let. Anna’s days are characterized by endless baby wrangling, and she hasn’t slept a full night for two years spending her time tending for one child or the other.

Night Waking primarily focuses on modern parenting, motherhood, love, and ambition. The heroine, Anna is desperate to meet the needs of her children and also advance her academic career and is resentful of her husband’s freedom and at the same time helplessly bound to her two children unable to spend time away from them. Sarah Moss plays her heroine’s point of view for both the comic and for the tragedy but with great skill. She skillfully unpicks the heroine’s delicate mental state slowly.

Anna’s story also features counterpoint narrative in the form of letters written by May Moberly a 19th-century nurse sent to the Colsay by Giles ancestors to combat infant mortality which was almost 100% during that time. She finds a community alien to her career, who doesn’t welcome her. It’s May’s presence in the book that a sinister past is revealed. Anna unearths the remains of a newborn in the garden, and this prompts her to investigate.

Ghost Wall

Sarah Moss is always strongly interested in isolation and bodies and in her previous novel, Tidal Zone, the author, vividly portrayed the effects on a family after a teen daughter is felled by an acute physical malfunction that she survives, but may recur with fatal effects. In her seventh novel, Ghost Wall, Sarah is again drawn to a teenage girl although this time the girl is robust but the ambiguities and vulnerabilities provide enough opportunity for the girl to explore the thin lines between outer and inner selves, dysfunction and function.

For authors, there are two main paths to a place in the literary heaven. The first involves publishing a novel, in most cases a debut that burst in a blaze and the author gains popularity by it. The second path is much slower, less sensational and also quieter but perhaps it’s more sustainable. It’s very easy to identify authors who’ve taken the second path once they reach the hall of fame, but the real trick here is identifying them before they get there. If you’re wondering which writer will reach the fame point next, its Sarah Moss, she has previously published novels and memoirs that have been shortlisted for the various award but not bagged a major award.

Back in 2011, her second fiction novel, Night Waking was a major hit amongst sleep-deprived parents. It’s evident that the author has built her reputation book by the book at a steady pace, but she is yet to climb into the hall of fame. This was evident in her 2018 novel Ghost Wall which was a hit across the literary world. Ghost Wall is set in the hot week of summer towards the end of the 20th century. We meet a 17-year old girl, Silvie and her parents on a camping expedition with Professor Slade and other students in rural Northumberland.

For the next few days, they plan to live the lives as ancient Britons, dressing in tunics, foraging for food, and observing all Iron Age rituals. Silvie’s dad, Bill is a historian by night and a bus driver by day. He is a man passionate about the past and has self-taught himself all survival skills that the students are required to acquire, a reason he’s been invited along. It becomes clear that the ideological purity through which Bill approaches the expedition doesn’t please the professor and the students. As his disapproval becomes evident, so the does tension sour up.

Ghost Wall is set a few miles of the countryside which the small group transverses endlessly in search of food. The author describes the locality richly such that the reader gets to know every pool, every path, and every bilberry patch. The author also through her evocative writing gives the readers a sense of what it would mean to live in a world that our ancestors lived a thousand years ago. But besides giving us a vivid description of the landscape and everything good about it, Sarah Moss is also quick enough to reveal to us the skull hidden beneath the skin, and remind us of the violence that our ancestors had to endure. It’s violence that Bill welcomes, and as the pages turn, the author reveals to the reader more about the practice of domestic abuse and iron age sacrificial rituals.

The real virtue of Ghost Wall deeply resides in the author’s ability to carry the readers and lead them to step by step to a shattering conclusion. Overall, Ghost Wall is a glazed gem, brief and an exciting work of fiction.

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One Response to “Sarah Moss”

  1. Michael Rooksby: 3 months ago

    Above all, the writing is just wonderful to read, even while the content is sometimes dark. Her books I could read over and over again – and have done so with a couple. Thank you

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