Butter is the cult Japanese bestseller about a female gourmet cook turned serial killer and the journalist intent on cracking her case, inspired by a true story. Set in Tokyo, it is a delightfully weird and breathtakingly original exploration of misogyny, obsession, romance and the transgressive pleasures of food in Japan. Asako Yuzuki visits Sheffield to talk about her dark but delicious novel that readers the world over have been feasting on. Translated by Polly Barton.  

‘A full-fat, Michelin-starred treat’ The Times

‘I have been glued to Asako Yuzuki’s new novel Butter’ Nigel Slater

Presented in collaboration with the Japan Foundation and in association with 4^th Estate (Harper Collins)