Collection: Orlando Murrin

Orlando Murrin is a food writer and novelist.

His début crime novel, Knife Skills For Beginners, will be published by Transworld on 1 February 2024. Set in a cookery school in Belgravia, it is the story of Paul Delamare, a chef who must discover who committed a gruesome murder or be blamed for it himself.

As a food writer, Orlando has written six cookbooks. His latest are Two's Company and Two's Company Simple. A Table in the Tarn describes his adventure of setting up a gastronomic b&b in SW France.

In 2020 Orlando was elected President of the Guild of Food Writers. Since 2019 he has hosted the BBC Good Food Podcast with TV presenter-restaurateur Tom Kerridge. He writes regularly for Waitrose Weekend.

He is married and lives in Exeter, in the south west of England.