Maurice Girodias was the most daring avant-garde publisher in English of the post-war era. His Paris-based Olympia Press took on Samuel Beckett at a time when no British publisher wanted him, Vladimir Nabokov when Lolita was considered unprintable, William Burroughs when The Naked Lunch was regarded as obscenely incomprehensible, The Ginger Man by J.P. Donleavy,
We looked back at memorable kids books from our childhood, some bonafide classics, and everything in between to find famous titles that mention foods, categories of food, and meals.
This was the naughtiest thing I read in my youth, writes Melanie Reid, but now this story of a drunken wife-beater and womaniser feels almost unreadable