To Entertain, the debut by the writer and cook Jago Rackham, is not an easy book to categorise. Subtitled ‘instructions for a dinner party’, online it’s listed variously as a ‘party planning’, ‘etiquette’ or ‘food and drink’ title. Reading it, though, quickly you come to see it less as a set of instructions and more as a brilliant, genre-defying work; part-memoir, part-recipe book, and with a dedication to beautyhellip;

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