From The Greats
Author of The Debt to Pleasure, winner of the Whitbread First Novel Award.
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The Debt to Pleasure
by John Lanchester · 1996
A dark comic novel in which a food-loving narrator travels through France while revealing a sinister story.
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The Debt to Pleasure appears in 1 currently documented source-backed recommendation.
Sean M. Carroll
Theoretical physicist; Johns Hopkins University
Recommended
Carroll’s own recommended-novels list
personal-site
Documented citation: Included in Sean Carroll’s personal list of five recommended novels.
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Sean Carroll / Preposterous Universe · 2006-07-26 · accessed 2026-09-30
personal-site · Carroll’s own recommended-novels list
The authored article lists five novels and explicitly recommends them. This title appears in the article body, not in reader comments. Catalog wording is a citation paraphrase.
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