Scorched is a one-stop shop for recipes and practical advice that will help you get the most from cooking fish on your barbecue, beginning with the science of why we need to cook different types of fish in different ways and the physics of how fire works.

Live-fire expert Genevieve Taylor covers everything you’ll ever need to know about buying and cooking all kinds of fish, from cooking whole fish, fillets, shellfish, stuffed & wrapped, to burgers, fritters and skewers, fish in a pan and smoked fish, with more than 85 recipes.

Genevieve provides essential information about setting up your barbecue, sourcing your fuel and lighting your fire, with troubleshooting tips throughout. Full of succulent, colourful recipes, Scorched is the most useful, practical and comprehensive guide to grilling fish on the market.

Live-fire and BBQ expert Genevieve Taylor is the author of twelve books including The Ultimate Wood-Fired Oven Cookbook (2018), Charred (2019) and Foolproof BBQ (2021). She runs the Bristol Fire School and demonstrates live-fire cookery at food festivals all over the UK. She has presented Radio 4’s The Food Programme and regularly contributes to the national press on all things barbecue.