SOURDOUGH

(Atlantic Books £12.99) hIpSTerS young and old will get a real rise out of Sourdough, a Silicon Valley- set satire in which a hotshot computer programmer called Lois gets into fashionable breadmaking when she’s given the live yeast starter for delicious sourdough.

She’s turned her back on the techie rat-race but, as demand for her bread booms amid the happening farmers’ market scene, is she just swapping one cut-throat competition for another? It’s merciless, ingenious and hilarious on the minutiae of trendy West Coast life. As noel Coward once said, I couldn’t have liked it more.