BOOKS
authors of The Complete Air Fryer Cookbook provides essential air fryer cooking times and temperatures and can be hung on the wall or on the fridge using the included magnet.
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of the British Isles is a “glorious” tour of France and French cheese, complete with tasting notes, serving suggestions and stories of artisan cheesemongers and fromagers around the country.
Neil Ridley
James Morton The Big Book of Bread: Recipes and Stories From Around the Globe Quadrille, 10th, hb, £30, 9781787138742 Exploring bread in its myriad forms, including its history and geography, this contains recipes for loaves from near and far; from modern sour- dough to ancient pitta, Scottish batch bread and Shokupan.
Jill Norman The English Table: Our Food Through the Ages Reaktion, hb, £17.95, 9781789149333 Drawing on the secrets hidden in period cookery books such as the 14th-century “Forme of Cury” to modern classics such as Jane Grigson’s “English Food”, a “delectable” journey through the culinary history of England.
Ned Palmer
A Cheesemonger’s Tour de France Profile, 3rd, hb, £18.99, 9781788166935 This follow-up to Palmer’s A Cheesemonger’s History
Biography & memoir
Rick Astley Never: The Autobiography Macmillan, 10th, hb, £25, 9781035049394
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“Fame didn’t actually make me happy.” A “reflective, frank and beautiful” first memoir by the singer who shot to pop fame with his single “Never Gonna Give You Up”, but then, after only six years in the music business made the deci-
sion to retire, choosing family over fame. He relates how time out of the industry offered him room for much-needed reflection and therapy, and unknowingly helped set the stage for his trium- phant return to music, including his 2023 appear- ance on Glastonbury’s Pyramid stage.
The Crisp Sommelier: The Ultimate Guide to Crisp and Drink Pairings Bloomsbury, 24th, hb, £12.99, 9781526679383 Covering more than 40 crisp varieties and 70 drinks, this “fun and humorous” guide to crisp and drink pairings features such classic combos as roast beef crisps with a pint of bitter, as well as more unusual takes such as pickled onion Monster Munch and a gin-based Gibson cocktail.
Sarah Rossi What’s for Christmas Dinner? HarperCollins, 10th, hb, £22, 9780008685591 Much-followed food blog- ger Rossi returns with her third book—a Christmas cooking bible designed to take the stress out of catering for the festive season with chapters covering Freezer Fillers, Gorgeous Gifts, Christmas Breakfasts and more.
Ben Shewry Uses for Obsession Murdoch, 10th, pb, £17.99, 9781922616845 This “intimate, searing and hopeful” memoir by a renowned chef and restaurateur aims to reframe the way we think about restaurants, cooking and more; from
sexism in hospitality to the cult of the chef.
Elly Smart Elly’s Plate DK, 24th, hb, £24.99, 9780241729335 Make plants the centre of every meal with this collection of more than 75 indulgent vegan recipes, from hot halloumi burgers to lemon drizzle cookies. Smart is a content creator with a growing following @ellysplate.
Spud Man Spudman’s Spudactacular Jacket Potato Cookbook HarperNorth, 24th, hb, £12.99, 9780008728151 “If Carlsberg did jacket potatoes, they still wouldn’t be as good as mine.” Ben Newman, aka Spud Man’s jacket potato recipes are a viral sensation on TikTok, I’m told. This début cookbook features 40 recipes for turning jacket potato cuisine “into an art form”, and also includes spud trivia, a readers’ Q&A section and spudtastic jokes.
at Château-de-la-Motte Husson, the stars of “Escape to the Château” present a collection of more than 200 recipes, crafts and gardening projects for every occasion and season. Publication coincides with their biggest-ever UK theatre tour.
Tony Tan Tony Tan’s Asian Cooking Class Murdoch, 24th, hb, £30, 9781922616913 By a respected Malaysian born author and chef, this provides recipes and “gentle lessons” in the essential ingredients, techniques and dishes of China, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam and beyond.
Regula Ysewijn The Official Bridgerton Cookbook Random House Worlds, 22nd, hb, £30, 9780593725573 From Lady Featherington’s towering Salmagundi salad to Queen Charlotte’s Pink Perfection, more than 70 recipes from the world of “Bridgerton” feature in this official cookbook which also includes production stills.
Gardening Jo Kirby
The Good Slug Guide Pimpernel Press, 10th, hb, £12.99, 9781914902253 From why keeping the garden neat and tidy can make things worse, to learning to treat slugs and snails as garden visitors, a guide to tackling slug damage while caring for the planet at the same time.
Dick and Angel Strawbridge A Taste of the Château Seven Dials, 10th, hb, £25, 9781399603195 Drawing on their years of hosting celebrations
Natalie Whittle Crunch: An Ode to Crisps Faber, 10th, hb, £18.99, 9780571384105 “Prepare to crunch.” From the science of crisp flavourings to Pringles, I much enjoyed this love letter to crisps, which traces the evolution of our favourite salty snack from the simplicity of salt sachets in the early 20th century to the popularity of the “hand-cooked” gourmet flavours of today. I was especially pleased to learn that Whittle also gets through packets on long car journeys.
Poetry
Pam Ayres Doggedly Onward: The Collected Poems Ebury Spotlight, 3rd, hb, £25, 9781529944723 Almost 50 years since she came to fame following her appearance on TV talent show “Opportunity Knocks”, poet, broadcaster and entertainer Pam Ayres, now 77, has a loyal and dedi- cated following, and is still staging
sell-out tours. A perennially bestselling poet since the 1970s, she is now publishing this ulti- mate and illustrated collection of her poems, which brings together work from the past five decades, along with new introductions in which she reflects on her writing. I can still recite “I Am a Dry Stone Waller”, learned as a child.
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Anya Lautenbach The Money-Saving Gardening Year: A Month-by-Month Guide to a Flourishing Garden at a Fraction of the Cost DK, 24th, HhbB, £16.99, 9780241733066 The author of The Money- Saving Gardener returns with month-by-month advice on how to garden on a budget; from the best times to propagate different plants to nurturing seedlings.
Mitch McCulloch The Seed Hunter: Discover the World’s Most Unusual Heirloom Plants DK, 3rd, hb, £27, 9780241667118 From Italian flat onions to pink broad beans,
apple-sized melons and ancient Aztec broccoli, a guide to growing and eating the tastiest and most unusual heirloom plants from around the world.
Tim Richardson The English Landscape Garden: Dreaming of Arcadia Frances Lincoln, 24th, hb, £40, 9780711290921 From Stowe in Buckinghamshire to Studley Royal in Yorkshire, a photographic celebration of 20 of the finest surviving examples of the 18th-century land- scape garden.
Health, fitness & parenting
Dr Naomi Fisher & Eliza Fricker When the Naughty Step Makes Things Worse: Parenting for Children (and Adults) Who Need Something Different Robinson, 3rd, pb, £14.99, 9781472148681 “Some children just haven’t read the parent- ing books. The harder you try, the worse it gets.” That’s the premise for this down-to-earth illustrated guide for parents who need a different approach and suspect what they are currently doing isn’t helping.
Eliza Fricker A Different Kind of Parenting: Neurodivergent Families Finding a Way Through Together Jessica Kingsley, 21st, pb, £12.99, 9781805012955 In which the author and illustrator of Can’t Not
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