Aeham Ahmad, born in Damascus in 1988, grew up in Yarmouk, a suburb of Damascus. From the age of four onwards his father encouraged his musical talent and at seven he received piano lessons at the Arab Institute in Damascus. He later studied music education in Homs and worked as a music teacher. 
 
In 2015 he was forced to flee to Germany because of the war in Syria. Today he lives with his family in Wiesbaden and gives concerts all over Europe. In December 2015, Ahmad was awarded the International Beethoven Prize for Human Rights. 
 
This is his first book.

Aeham Ahmad

Aemilia Lanyer

Aeneas Gunn

Aerosmith

Aeschylus

Aesop lived in the early sixth century BC on the island of Samos, which lies off the coast of modern Turkey. He originally came from Thrace which was a separate country in those days, though it now forms part of Greece and Bulgaria. Very little is known about his life except that he worked as a slave on Samos for a master called Iadmon, and that he became a very famous storyteller. He was so famous that almost any fable which could have been told by him became attributed to him.

Aesop

Afsaneh Knight

Afsaneh Moqadam

Afua Hirsch is a writer, filmmaker, and journalist. She is the author of Brit(ish), the Sunday Times bestseller that explores Britishness, identity and belonging, for which she was awarded the Royal Society of Literature Jerwood Prize for Non-Fiction. She co-presented Enslaved, a 6-part series about the transatlantic slave trade with Samuel L Jackson. She is the presenter of the Audible podcast series We Need To Talk About the British Empire, and Africa Rising, an ongoing flagship series about art and culture for the BBC, through her production company Born in Me Productions. She is a longtime columnist for the Guardian and is a professor of journalism at the University of Southern California.

Afua Hirsch

AGAPI STASSINOPOULOS is an author, blogger and international speaker who inspires audiences around the world. She has spoken at many corporations and conferences, such as Nike Women, Starbucks,Time Inc., Virgin, Johnson &amp; Johnson and the American Heart Foundation. She was born in Athens and trained in London at RADA before gaining a Master’s in psychology at the University of Santa Monica. She has collaborated with her sister, Arianna Huffington, to develop talks and seminars, and has worked with the Oprah Winfrey network. She is currently hosting a new podcast series in collaboration with The Huffington Post, entitled ‘Sundays with Agapi’, which includes guided meditations and interviews with prominent guests. She lives in Los Angeles.

Agapi Stassinopoulos

Agatha Christie

Aggie MacKenzie

Aghnia Mardiyah is a London-based Illustrator and Character Designer with a passion for children's books and animation. She is drawn to fun, bright and vibrant colours. When she isn't disappearing under piles of work, she loves to travel! Exploring foreign places, exciting new sights and sensations is what inspires her the most!

Aghnia Mardiyah

Agnes Callard is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Chicago. Her primary areas of specialization are ancient philosophy and ethics. She has written for The New York Times, New Yorker, Atlantic, Harper’s, Boston Review, and penned a monthly column for the Point. From 2019 to 2020, she held a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship for the research that contributes to this book.

Agnes Callard

Agnes Jekyll

Agnes Bertha Marshall (24 August 1855-29 July 1905) was an English culinary entrepreneur who became a leading cookery writer, dubbed the 'Queen of Ices'. Her 1888 cookery book included a recipe for 'cornets with cream', possibly the earliest publication of the edible ice cream cone. Marshall was born in Walthamstow. She wrote four books: Ices Plain and Fancy: The Book of Ices (1885), Mrs A B Marshall's Book of Cookery (1888), Mrs A B Marshall's Larger Cookery Book of Extra Recipes (1891) and Fancy Ices (1894).

Agnes Marshall

Agnes Prus

Agri Ismaïl is a Kurdish author based in Sweden who has worked as a corporate lawyer in London, Dubai, and Iraqi Kurdistan. His work has been published in The White Review, The Rumpus, Litro, 3:AM Magazine, and Asymptote amongst other places. His piece 'Haunted Home' won the 2016 Stack award for best non-fiction for The Outpost, runner-up in the Lifted Brow &amp; RMIT non/fictionLab Prize for Experimental Non-Fiction, and he was longlisted for the 2017/2018 Galley Beggar Press Short Story Prize. Hyper is his first novel.

Agri Ismaïl

Aharon Appelfeld authored more than 45 acclaimed works of fiction and nonfiction and received many international awards including the MLA Commonwealth Award, the Independent Foreign Fiction prize, the prix Médicis étranger, the Israel prize, and the Nelly Sachs prize. Born in Czernowitz, Bukovina (now part of Ukraine) in 1932, he survived the Holocaust and passed away in Israel in 2018.

Aharon Appelfeld

Ahmadou Kourouma

Ahmed Alnaouq is a Palestinian journalist and human rights activist based in London. He is the co-founder and director of We Are Not Numbers and a journalist with Palestine Deep Dive. Ahmed holds a degree in English Literature from Al-Azhar university in Gaza, and an MA in International Journalism from Leeds University, where he was a Chevening Scholar. 
 
Pam Bailey is a social-justice activist and journalist based in Washington DC. She lived and worked in the Gaza Strip following the 2008/9 Israeli assault, and co-founded We Are Not Numbers. Today, in addition to her ongoing dedication to the Palestinian cause, she dedicates herself to two nonprofits that advocate for people detained in American prisons -- including one she co-founded in 2020, called More Than Our Crimes.

Ahmed Alnaouq

Ahmed Errachidi

Ahmed Rashid

Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar

Ahron Bregman is the author of four books about Israel and the Arabs: The Fifty Years War (with Jihan el Tahri), Israel's Wars, A History of Israel and Elusive Peace. He teaches at the Department of War Studies, King's College London.

Ahron Bregman

Ai Qing is regarded as one of the finest modern Chinese poets, whose free verse was influential in the development of new poetry in China.

Ai Qing

Ai Weiwei

Aidan Chambers was born in County Durham in 1934. After national service in the Royal Navy he became a teacher and then, for seven years, a monk. His young adult novels have been widely acclaimed, with POSTCARDS FROM NO-MAN'S LAND winning the prestigious Carnegie Medal and the US Michael L Printz Award. With his wife Nancy he ran Signal magazine and he has served as the president of the School Library Association. His devoted services to children's literature were recognised by his receipt of the Hans Christian Andersen Award in 2002.

Aidan Chambers

Aidan Higgins was born in 1927. Langrishe Go Down, his first novel, won the James Tait Black memorial Prize and the Irish Academy of Letters Award, and was later filmed for television with a screenplay by Harold Pinter. His second novel, Balcony of Europe, was shortlisted for the 1972 Booker Prize. The novel Lions of the Grunewald appeared in 1993 and a collection of shorter fiction, Flotsam and jetsam, in 1996. Donkey's Years and Dog Days were the first two volumes of the Higgins Bestiary which concludes with this volume.

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Thom Eagle

From the author of the Fortnum &amp; Mason Debut Food Book of 2019, Summer&#39;s Lease looks at the cooking techniques we use instead of heat which, in letting us step away from the stove, lend themselves perfectly to summer eating: breaking, salting, souring and ageing.The long dog days of a tiring summer are no time to be a cook. A few charred sardines are of course a wonderful thing, but there the grill sits, pouring out heat into the already-hot kitchen; anyone with any sense who wants charred sardines is somewhere close to the seaside.... It is a time when you might, if you weren&rsquo;t so hot, wonder what it means to cook at all. Is there cooking without fire...?We understand that when we say something is cooked, we mean it has been heated; but we also understand that a cook does much more than just cooking. The chopping, the beating, the marinating, the dressing... What cooks do is best defined not by the word &ldquo;cooking&rdquo;, but by the idea of metamorphosis. Cooks transform ingredients.Through recipes and meanderings, award-winning food writer Thom Eagle explores what it means to create dishes without a reliance on fire and flame, and offers a unique and tantalising glimpse inside the mind of a chef.

Summer's Lease

How to Cook Without Heat

Gill Meller

Guild of Food Writer’s Awards, Highly Commended in ‘General Cookbook’ category (2021)Root, Stem, Leaf, Flower is a cookbook about plants &ndash; it&#39;s about making the most of the land&#39;s bounty in your everyday cooking. Making small changes to the way we cook and eat can both lessen the impact we have on the environment and dramatically improve our health and wellbeing: good for us and for future generations to come. Making plants and vegetables the focus of your meals can improve your cooking exponentially - they provide a feast of flavours, colours and textures. Root, Stem, Leaf, Flower is a true celebration of seasonal vegetables and fruit, packed with simple and surprisingly quick vegetarian recipes. With roots, we think of the crunch of carrots, celeriac, beetroot. From springtime stems like our beloved asparagus and rhubarb, through leaves of every hue (kale, radicchio, chard), when the blossoms become the fruits of autumn &ndash; apples, pears, plums &ndash; the food year is marked by growth, ripening and harvest. With 120 original recipes, every dish captured by acclaimed photographer Andrew Montgomery, and Gill&#39;s ideas for using the very best fresh ingredients, Root, Stem, Leaf, Flower is a thoughtful, inspiring collection of recipes that you&#39;ll want to come back to again and again. Praise for Time: "I love Gill Meller&#39;s food: it is completely his own, and ranges from the (unpretentiously) rarified to the smile-inducingly cosy; indeed, he often seems to fuse the two... his recipes make me want to run headlong into the kitchen." &ndash; Nigella Lawson "Gill Meller&#39;s latest cookbook, Time, is poetic and romantic &ndash; a string of beautiful recipes guide you through the seasons. &ndash; Yotam Ottolenghi, GuardianPraise for Gather: "My book of the autumn and possibly of the year... Gather is a perfect expression of something food writers have been trying to define for the past three decades: modern British cooking." &ndash; Diana Henry "Just stunning. There&#39;s no one I&#39;d rather cook for me than Gill and there&#39;s not a recipe here I wouldn&#39;t eagerly devour." &ndash; Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall

Root, Stem, Leaf, Flower

How to Cook with Vegetables and Other Plants

Gaz Oakley

Winner of the Best Vegan Cookbook Award in VegNews Magazine 2021Plants Only Kitchen offers an explosion of flavour, with more than 70 vegan recipes that work around your lifestyle.With symbols flagging whether recipes are high-protein, take less than 15 minutes, are gluten-free, one-pot or are suitable for meal prep,Plants Only Kitchen explains how best to make a vegan diet work for you. No fuss, no fancy ingredients &ndash; just fantastic food using plants, only.Gaz Oakley (aka @avantgardevegan) has amassed well over a million followers on social media with his exciting vegan dishes, which emphasize that a plant-based diet doesn&#39;t mean missing out on taste. In Plants Only Kitchen, Gaz&#39;s recipes are easier than ever before &ndash; following his step-by-step instructions, tips and advice, anyone can cook great vegan food.

Plants Only Kitchen

Over 70 Delicious, Super-simple, Powerful & Protein-packed Recipes for Busy People

Ben Ford

David Turofsky

From the award-winning and fried-chicken obsessed duo behind Wingmans, chef Ben Ford and David Turofsky, comes Wings and Things, a book that celebrates the glorious bird with some of the most mouth-watering, saucy, internationally inspired variations on classic wings.Recipes to savour include moreish favourites such as their multi-award-winning Buffalo Wings, Korean Seoulja Boi Wings with gochujang, pineapple, and black sesame, Jamaican Heatwave Wings made fiery with Scotch bonnet chillies, and Satays&rsquo;faction Guaranteed Wings coated in satay sauce and served with cooling cucumber.Other chapters offer ways to make use of the other parts of a chicken so as to avoid waste, such as Sticky BBQ Chicken Thighs with Celeriac and Bourbon-glazed Onions, breast fillets for the best-ever burgers, chicken livers in little sliders &ndash; and even chicken skin crisped up to make the most incredible salty, irresistible topping. Alongside all of these, you&rsquo;ll find sides, sharing plates, lots of sauces and pickles, drinks and unbelievable desserts to complete your feast!Spread your wings and master the art of cooking chicken wings to perfection!

Wings and Things

Lip-smacking Chicken Recipes

Nell Gifford

Ols Halas

Winner of the Guild of Food Writers General Cookbook Award 2021"One of the most memorable and enjoyable restaurants imaginable." &ndash; Gastronomica"Utterly brilliant, fun, uplifting show." &ndash; Dara O&#39;Briain"Absolutely beautiful and fun and heart-stopping. See this!" &ndash; Dawn FrenchGiffords Circus has been touring the south of England every summer since 2000. It is a traditional village circus with a uniquely British flavour, blended with extraordinary acts from all over the world. Their restaurant Circus Sauce is headed by chef Ols Halas and seats circus goers in a beautifully decorated tent on site. They offer a new menu every week and use seasonal and local produce from the surrounding area. They serve freshly baked bread, roast chicken and truffle suet pudding, smoked ham hock in pastry, dressed crab with samphire, queen of puddings, mounds of Eton mess, and lots more, with some guests returning several times in the summer to experience a new menu within familiar surroundings.This extraordinary book is a celebration of the food that brings the circus and its audience together, alongside the story of the circus itself and its vibrant community. Full of colour, personalities, stories and images of the circus and its slow journey through the English summer countryside, the book&#39;s 100 recipes are nothing but delicious, joyful and hearty.

Giffords Circus Cookbook

Recipes and Stories From a Magical Circus Restaurant

James Martin

Since going on his Great British Adventure in 2019, James Martin has taken to the road again (and the sea and skies, too!) to bring us a new British recipes cookbook, featuring more of his favourite stunning &ndash; and occasionally remote &ndash; locations around the UK.With a foreword by Tom Kerridge, this new celebration of the unique food of the British Isles sees James travel from islands to Highlands, cooking and eating everywhere from Cornwall to Scilly, Jersey and Guernsey, Isle of Man to Shetland, the Peak District, Lake District and Yorkshire Moors, and from Wales to Skye. He takes advantage of the best ingredients the country has to offer, making Poached Turbot with a Creamy Herb Sauce on a boat in Guernsey, BBQ Pork Burgers on the Isle of Man, traditional Singing Hinnies in Northumberland &ndash; and more surprising dishes like Hoisin Duck on beautiful St Martin&#39;s in the Isles of Scilly.It&#39;s another inspiring culinary journey for fans of the show and there are 80 recipes from the series, along with details of the producers and chefs James visits, and exclusive photography from behind the scenes on this extraordinary food trip.

James Martin's Islands to Highlands

80 Fantastic Recipes from Around the British Isles

Dale Pinnock

An instantly accessible, user-friendly, go-to guide to nutrition, this will become an invaluable resource in every home. Author Dale Pinnock is the Medicinal Chef and with his practical, authoritative advice, everyone can cut down on the family&rsquo;s common medical complaints, trips to the doctor, expensive medication and confusing health books.The book will begin with an indispensable alphabetical reference guide to common medical complaints &ndash; applicable to age groups from babies to the elderly &ndash; such as eczema, acid reflux, menstrual cramps, constipation, high blood pressure, fatigue and more. The second part of the book presents a list of the ingredients that will help you tackle specific ailments. The third part of the book addresses the key stages of life and outlines which basic nutritional rules you need to follow at different ages to maximise your wellbeing and help prevent illness.Other highlights of the book include an accessible look at vitamins and supplements &ndash; whether you should take them, when you should avoid them, and how to use them safely.

The Medicinal Chef: The Nutrition Bible

An A–Z of Ailments and Medicinal Foods

Sarah Hardy

Indulgent and show-stopping, Vegan Cakes is the place where traditional baking rules are thrown out of the window, proving that you don&rsquo;t need dairy and eggs to create baking wonders.From a Pink Vanilla Dream Cake and Sherry Berry Trifle, to Rose and Ginger Cheesecake and Black Sesame Banana Bread, this book is for the new vegan on the block. The vegan who wants to eat cake, indulge, feast and feel GOOD about it.With delectable step-by-step recipes and enticing photos, along with guidance on vegan icing and decorations, this is the foolproof baking guide to creating decadent treats for every occasion.In the words of JAY-Z: &lsquo;Marie Antoinette, baby, let &lsquo;em eat cake&rsquo;.

Vegan Cakes

Dreamy Cakes & Decadent Desserts

Dan Toombs

In The Curry Guy Light, Dan Toombs, aka the Curry Guy, showcases over 100 recipes that are: <ul><li>Lower in carbs and calories than most other Indian recipes</li><li>Lower in fat and salt without lacking flavour</li><li>Delicious and fresh-tasting</li></ul>Dan has spent many years researching the food of Kerala and Goa, as well as learning the secrets of Indian restaurants. In The Curry Guy Light he shows that you can make your favourite curry house meals but at the same time know that it&rsquo;s really good for you &ndash; you&rsquo;d never know it when the food works its magic!He&#39;s developed a new, lighter version of his classic base sauce, and created lower-cal versions of curry house classics, including starters like onion bhajis and spicy hot chicken wings, indulgent Goan prawn curry, chicken tikka masala and saag paneer, your favourite sides such as tarka dhal and coconut rice, plus chutneys and snacks. All the recipes have clear, step-by-step instructions, and are guaranteed 100% delectable. It&#39;s the curry cookbook you&#39;ve been waiting for!

The Curry Guy Light

Over 100 Lighter, Fresher Indian Curry Classics

Kwoklyn Wan

Being vegan or vegetarian, or wanting to reduce your meat intake, doesn&#39;t mean missing out on fantastic takeaway favourites. The Veggie Chinese Takeaway Cookbook offers over 70 amazing meat-free recipes, most of which can easily be made vegan.Kwoklyn Wan has spent his life cooking in Chinese restaurants and knows how to make your home recipes taste just like the takeaway. Chinese food is ideal for a veggie diet as it makes the most of fresh vegetables and meat substitutes, and uses very little dairy &ndash; but at the same time packs fantastic flavour into everything.From tom yum soup to spring rolls, fried tofu with chilli and black beans or aubergine with sesame seeds, to Hong Kong crispy noodles and sticky rice parcels, you can re-create the tastes of your favourite restaurant quicker than the time it takes to pick up the phone and order.

The Veggie Chinese Takeaway Cookbook

Wok, No Meat? Over 70 Vegan and Vegetarian Takeaway Classics

Xand van Tulleken

Georgina Davies

In this updated edition of How to Lose Weight Well, which accompanies the hit Channel 4 show, Dr Xand van Tulleken offers a preface to this new edition of the book, including details about diets featured on the latest shows, a section on veganism, an expanded chapter on exercise, and 5 new vegan recipes. 
 
 Dr Xand, who slimmed down from 19 stone, champions a foolproof weight-loss method. He presents a simple 4-step plan for a healthy diet, backed by fact. No gimmicks, no expensive supplements, no hassle &ndash; just practical advice and 70 easy recipes for every day of the week.For most people, diets fail when cravings and temptation get the better of them, but this diet addresses these common traps so that anyone can keep the weight off for the rest of their lives. Recipes include filling meat, fish and vegetable mains (including newly designated vegan recipes), breakfasts and even puddings. Additionally, a series of menu plans provides all the help readers might need to fit the recipes into their busy days.

How to Lose Weight Well (Updated Edition)

Keep Weight Off Forever, the Healthy, Simple Way

Louise Kenney

All good things come in small packages. Quick, easy and with almost zero washing up &ndash; oven parcels are the new cooking trend everyone is talking about. From families to the single workaholic, the updated en papillote is the perfect go-to dinner, combining familiar ingredients with low-prep, low-mess ease.Dinner&#39;s in the Bag includes 60 tasty recipes all cookable in foil, baking parchment or oven-proof plastic and silicone bags. Everything from healthy weekday suppers, including Sesame pork with spring vegetables and Mussels with fennel and white wine, through to delicious veggie dishes, such as Leeks in romesco sauce and, of course, delectable puds like Roasted rhubarb with vanilla, orange and cinnamon and Pineapple en papillote with honey, thyme and rum.With straightforward instructions and a photo for every dish, enjoy stress-free mealtimes without having to fork out for an InstantPot or Slow cooker. Whatever you fancy for dinner &ndash; just bag it up, pop it in the oven and eat!

Dinner's in the Bag

60 Easy Oven Recipes, All Wrapped Up

Nathan Outlaw

Boasting 3 Michelin stars across two restaurants in Port Isaac, Cornwall, Nathan Outlaw is passionate about seafood. He is renowned for his unique style of cooking, which encourages the individual flavours of the fish and shellfish to shine through. Sourcing sustainable fish and local produce in season, Nathan uses his considerable flair to take simple fish cooking to new heights.&#160; 
 
 In this impressive cookbook&#160;Nathan offers advice on sourcing and buying fish and shellfish, then guides you through the various cooking techniques. The core of the book takes you through the individual fish and shellfish &ndash; &shy; brill, bream, sea bass, salmon, scallops, squid and more &ndash; suggesting the best cooking techniques and how to match the fish with sauces and accompaniments. He then offers recipes ranging from everyday quick dishes to signature dishes from his restaurant.&#160;Also included&#160;is a detailed photographic guide to preparing the different types of fish and shellfish. 
 
 Photographed on location in Cornwall, this superb book has a real sense of place and shows how easy it is to replicate Nathan&sup1;s beautiful food at home.

Nathan Outlaw's British Seafood

Will Lander

Shaun Searley

Dan Morgenthau

&#39;A stunner.&#39; &ndash; Diana Henry&#39;Where I&#39;ll always want to be.&#39; &ndash; Marina O&#39;LoughlinThe Quality Chop House has stood proudly on the corner of Farringdon Road and Exmouth Market since 1869. It&rsquo;s been a working man&rsquo;s cafe, a &#39;90s celeb magnet and, for the last 7 years, one of London&rsquo;s best-known, best-loved restaurants, with its famous confit potatoes regularly topping lists of &lsquo;dishes you can&rsquo;t miss in London&rsquo; on websites across the globe. On any given night, you will find notables from London&#39;s food world propping up the bar or rummaging for bottles of wine in the shop next door.Every week, delicious produce arrives at the restaurant from all over the British Isles: produce which eventually ends up in dishes like pastrami-cured salmon, roast cod with trotter tortellini or beef mince on dripping toast. The cooking is deceptively simple but honed to perfection: behind each recipe is an accumulation of notes, seasoning tweaks and adjustments according to what might be in season. Learn the secret behind those famous potatoes, the timings behind a perfect Sunday roast and what really makes a sandwich.This is British cooking written with accessibility and precision, that will make itself at home in any kitchen.

Quality Chop House

Modern Recipes and Stories from a London Classic

Catherine Phipps

FINANCIAL TIMES BEST FOOD BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2019 THE SUNDAY TIMES BEST COOKBOOKS OF THE YEAR 2019 Shortlisted for the Andr&eacute; Simon Food and Drink Book of the Year 2019 Telegraph 20 best cookbooks to buy autumn 2019 Spectator Best Cookbooks to buy Christmas 2019 "Leaf is so full of richly varied recipes I am hungry to cook, from herb butters, vinegars and sauces, to robust dishes and both elegant and cosy desserts. Don&rsquo;t be misled by title: it is not a book of salads!" &ndash; Nigella Lawson&ldquo;Phipps is curious, scholarly and greedy&hellip; venturing into labyrinths that lead to surprising facts and observations and truly terrific recipes. She then stands by your side and talks to you as you cook.&rdquo; &ndash; Diana Henry, Telegraph"Phipps is a cookery writer who deserves to be better known... this new one is her masterpiece: a joyous and beautiful celebration of leafiness." &ndash; Bee Wilson, The Sunday Times"Phipps has one of the most characteristic and engaging voices in contemporary food writing... Comprehensive, as always, but also innovative and surprising." &ndash; Tim Hayward, Financial TimesLeaf is a celebration of edible leaves in all their versatility. Bitter, pungent, peppery, lemony, sweet &ndash; in terms of flavour profiles, is there any ingredient so diverse?And from the palest shades of white and yellow, through to the deepest, darkest greens, via blushing reds and pinks, and rich purples, leaves are a riot of colour and texture. A leaf can be the tiniest microherb or a huge elephant ear. Tightly furled torpedoes, floppy with a peony blowsiness, spiky, crinkly, curly, delicate or feathery...From lettuces and herbs, through brassicas and even tea, Catherine Phipps explores the world of culinary leaves through meticulous research, evocative writing and over 120 foolproof recipes. With her recipes taking in soups, salads, brunches, starters, mains, puddings, baking, preserves and drinks, this is the essential book on cooking with leaves of all kinds.

Leaf

Lettuce, Greens, Herbs, Weeds - Over 120 Recipes that Celebrate Varied, Versatile Leaves

James Morton

Making Super Sourdough is the true test of every aspiring bread-maker. Fickle and delicate, every loaf is unique. And there are a lot of pitfalls to be avoided.It&rsquo;s much more than a food: sourdough is a science. Who better than Dr James Morton, baking pedant and fermentation fanatic, to explain the basics for both the uninitiated, and more experienced bakers?James talks the home baker through everything from starters, flours and hydration, to kneading, shaping, rising, scoring and baking, explaining how to achieve the perfect crust and crumb. With more than 40 sourdough recipes including basic loaves and rolls, baguettes, bagels and buns, clear step-by-step instructions, troubleshooting tips and explanations of what works and why, Super Sourdough is the new, accessible guidebook that bakers everywhere have been waiting for.

Super Sourdough

The Foolproof Guide to Making World-Class Bread at Home

Rebecca Woods

No other vegetable is as universally loved as the potato. It&#39;s a firm favourite of young and old alike, the world over.Chips, wedges, mash, r&ouml;sti, gnocchi, baked potatoes, hash browns, roast potatoes, French fries, Dauphinoise &ndash; no other vegetable is so versatile, so comforting and so delicious.In this latest book in the Posh series, we celebrate the humble potato in its many forms and offer amazing new ways to cook it. Through Breakfast &amp; Brunch, Lunch, Snacks, Sides, Mains, you&#39;ll discover a mouth-watering variety of dishes from around the world, and every recipe is accompanied by a tempting photo.Recipes include Sesame Sweet Potato Falafel Wraps; Sour Cream and Chive Baked Potato Soup; Piri Piri Soufl&eacute;ed Potatoes; Duchess Potatoes; Potato, Gorgonzola and Rosemary Pizza; and Fennel, Potato and Pancetta Gratins. Posh up your potatoes and add some sparkle to your spuds!

Posh Potatoes

Over 70 Recipes, From Wondrous Waffles to Fabulous Fries

Mark Diacono

SUNDAY TIMES FOOD BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019DAILY MAIL FOOD BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019A THE TIMES FOOD BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019A FINANCIAL TIMES FOOD BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019A GUARDIAN FOOD BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019A BBC RADIO 4 FOOD PROGRAMME BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019From cheese to vinegar, throughout the centuries we have deliberately let &ndash; and even encouraged &ndash; food to go sour to enhance its flavour. Now, sour foods have never been more fashionable, with the spotlight falling&#160;on foodstuffs as disparate as Belgian sour beer and Korean kimchi. But what is it that makes sourness such an enticing, complex element of the eating experience? And what are the best ways to harness sour flavours in your own kitchen?Sour offers a series of invitations to the modern cook, to learn the life-enhancing skills behind the everyday transformations that hold the key to this most enduring taste. Award-winning food writer Mark Diacono sets out to demystify the sour world, and explore why everyone&#39;s extolling the virtues of kombucha and fermenting for their digestive health. By grappling with gooseberries and turning his hand to sourdough, experimenting with ultra-cool shrub cocktails, and making his own yoghurt, kefir and pickles, Mark tells the story of what makes things sour, and offers recipes that maximise the transformative power of this amazing taste. From sumac-roasted duck and kombucha mayonnaise to roasted plums with labneh and cherry sour cream clafoutis, it is time to let a little (or a lot) of sour into your life.

Sour

The Magical Element That Will Transform Your Cooking

Kim-Joy

Infuse your baking with a sprinkle of glitter, a rainbow of colours and a menagerie of woodland creatures with the help of this unique baking book from everyone&#39;s favourite Great British Bake Off finalist, Kim-Joy!If you&#39;ve ever wanted to know how to bring your baking to life, Kim-Joy will show you how in this fun and practical book. As well as basic cake mixes, biscuit doughs, fillings/frostings and decorating techniques, she shares 40 of her wonderfully imaginative designs for iced biscuit creatures, big occasion cakes, character macarons and meringues, ornate breads and showstopping traybakes.Recipes include step-by-step photography and adorable illustrations accompanied by little messages of positivity throughout.Whether you want to learn how to make a llama cookie, a cat paradise cake, a panda-madeleine or a choux-bun turtle, there&#39;s something here to capture your imagination and spread a little (Kim-)Joy!

Baking with Kim-Joy

Cute and Creative Bakes to Make You Smile

We all know we should drink more water &ndash; sales of reusable water bottles have soared as we seek to cut down on our plastic and maintain maximum hydration. But it isn&rsquo;t the most inspiring of drinks &ndash; until now. 
&#160; 
Infused Waters&#160;offers 50 beautiful, healthy drinks that will help you get through the day&rsquo;s challenges. At home or on the go, absorb nature&rsquo;s health-enhancing vitamins, antioxidants and minerals while increasing your daily water intake. With drinks designed for whether you want an reviving lift, a relaxing sip or a restorative burst of hydration, through these imaginative fruit infusions, herbal waters and spicy blends, you&rsquo;ll find ways of adding a pretty health boost to your dining table or office bottle &ndash; and fruity and floral fragrance and delights to the dullest of drinks.&#160;

Infused Waters

50 Simple Drinks to Restore, Revive & Relax

Sue Quinn

An international bestseller, The Kids Only Cookbook is packed with over 50 simple, delicious and fun recipes containing easy-to-follow captions and 300 photos in a unique cartoon-strip style to inspire children of all ages to get busy in the kitchen.Original and creative projects will capture kids&#39; imaginations, such as the paper bag breakfast of a bacon and egg sandwich in a paper bag cooked on a barbecue. The kick&#39;n&#39;roll tin can ice cream is bound to be the project of the summer: pack a large tin can with ice and rock salt, insert a sealed ziplock bag containing cream, sugar and vanilla and kick it to the park or the beach... within 25 minutes... homemade ice cream!Kids will also learn as they go along; each recipe contains a culinary technique such as beating, whipping, piping or baking and &#39;Adult alerts&#39; appear throughout the book and ensure the recipes are all easy and safe to make.This is a book which will become treasured as it helps children to discover the endless fun to be had in the kitchen and to learn skills which will stay with them for life.

The Kids Only Cookbook

David Bez

How many of us are utterly bored with the bland, expensive, unhealthy or just too similar to what we had yesterday lunch at our desks? 
 
 David Bez is a food lover with a limited lunch break; an Italian who cares about what&#39;s on his plate; a designer who knows that you eat with your eyes first. For several years, he has made himself a salad for lunch every day at work, with fresh ingredients, minimum preparation time, and maximum flavour. Day after day, his colleagues peer over his shoulder to watch him craft yet another beautiful salad perfectly balanced in its composition and bound to both satisfy him and energize him for the afternoon ahead. 
 
 His winning formula for creating salads is to layer a base, vegetables or fruit, fresh herbs, protein toppings and dressings, which creates a perfect salad every time. Clearly marked with a vegetarian, vegan, raw, omnivore or pescatarian designation, every salad is an inspiration and can be adapted to suit a different diet. Fresh, tinned, jarred and pre-cooked ingredients are all explored; seasonality is key and variety keeps things nutritious and exciting.

Salad Love

How to Create a Lunchtime Salad, Every Weekday, in 20 Minutes or Less

Phillippa Spence

Liven up your cooking with a POSH TART! Whether it&#39;s a delicious savoury seafood quiche, a sticky fruit crostata or a traditional tomato tart, tarts have the edge over pies any day.Posh Tarts offers over 70 amazing recipes covering breakfast tarts (pasteis de nata, English breakfast), meat tarts (Spanish omelette quiche, Shredded smokey chicken and sweet corn, Bacon, leek and cheese), fish tarts (Pissaladi&egrave;re, Tuna tonnata, Smoked salmon and watercress), vegetable tarts (Baked camembert in filo with cranberry, Roasted ratatouille, Butternut squash tarte Tatin with chestnut and sage), and sweet tarts (Jam tarts, Tarte au citron, Dutch apple tart and Linzertorte).Simple to prepare, you can make a meal in moments with bought filo, puff or shortcrust pastry and a variety of topping ideas &ndash; or make your own pastry to be even more POSH. With easy-to-follow instructions and a photo for every recipe, Posh Tarts is a cut above the rest.

Posh Tarts

Over 70 Recipes, From Gorgeous Galettes to Perfect Pastries

Genevieve Taylor

The past few years have seen an explosion of interest in cooking over fire, with cooks all over the world seeking to get elemental in their cooking. But fire and smoke doesn&#39;t always have to be about hunks of meat. Chargrilling and barbecue are a fantastic way of getting the maximum flavour out of versatile vegetables.If you&#39;re bored of beefburgers, or if you&#39;re vegetarian and want more than scorched sweetcorn and chewy halloumi, then Charred offers up over 70 original, exciting recipes to cater for all your veggie BBQ needs.With sections on Stuffed and wrapped veg, Burgers and fritters, Kebabs, Low, slow and smoked, and Sharing Platters, the vegetarian dishes will be the highlight of every meal, with the likes of whole roast cauliflower drenched in spiced garlic butter, griddled radicchio with burrata and figs, or corn on the cob with Cambodian coconut, lime and chilli.Live-fire and BBQ expert Genevieve Taylor has developed these inventive, sensational dishes so that they can just as easily be cooked in a grill pan or conventional oven, year-round. Celebrate the magic that happens when glorious veg meet flame!

Charred

The Complete Guide to Vegetarian Grilling and Barbecue

Michel Roux

Desserts have been a lifelong passion for Michel Roux and he is widely regarded as an authority on them. Here he presents updated great classics and mouthwatering contemporary recipes, inspired by his travels and designed to suit a fresher, lighter palate. 
 
 Each chapter focuses on a particular type of dessert from simple fruit ideas, hot souffl&eacute;s and puddings, ice creams and sorbets &ndash; through meringues, mousses and parfaits &ndash; to delectable tarts, pastries and g&acirc;teaux. Step-by-step recipes guide you through specific techniques throughout. Creative, diverse and lavishly illustrated, this superb collection of over 120 recipes includes desserts for all seasons and to suit all occasions. 
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Desserts

Tim Hayward

&#39;Hayward, one of the... best food writers alive, every page a different blade, glintingly pictured and lovingly described. Kitchen porn but not sinister: A cook&rsquo;s gotta chop, a cook&rsquo;s gotta mince.&#39; &ndash; Simon Schama in New York Times&#39;Both essential and informative, useful information and sheer blade porn. Tim Hayward explores the world of knives with enthusiasm and authority.&#39; &ndash; Anthony Bourdain&#39;This is possibly the coolest book I have ever seen. Glorious in content, geeky in text and engaging in photography. This is every cook&#39;s must-have reference book! I love it.&#39; &ndash; Tom Kerridge&#39;Tim Hayward is the most serious cookery writer I know. Whatever he says, I will listen. Whatever he writes, I will buy.&#39; &ndash; Len Deighton&#39;A gleaming, razor-sharp paean to the chef s greatest weapon in Knife by Tim Hayward. Both eloquent and encyclopaedic, Knife is the ultimate book of blades&#39;&#39; &ndash; Tom Parker Bowles, Mail on SundayKnife is a love-letter to this essential culinary tool &ndash; its form, history and creation. The knife can be the most functional utensil or the most exquisite piece of design &ndash; avid collectors pay jaw-dropping sums for a piece of Japanese hand-crafted steel, made according to traditions that date back thousands of years.Through interviews with knife-makers, chefs and collectors, acclaimed food writer Tim Hayward explores how the relationship between cook and blade has shaped the both the knife itself, and the ways we prepare and eat food all over the world. From Damascus blades to Chinese cleavers and sushi knives, at the heart of Knife is a fascinating guide to 40 different types of knife, each with its own unique story, detailed description and stunning photographs.Lavishly illustrated and designed, and as cool, personal and desirable as the most intricately crafted deba, Knife opens up the world of this most covetable of culinary implements.

Knife

The Culture, Craft and Cult of the Cook's Knife

Sauces have always played an important role in cooking. They complement and enhance so many foods, adding nuances of flavour and taking dishes to new heights. With his wealth of culinary knowledge, Michel Roux is recognised as a master at the art of sauce-making. 
 
 This comprehensive collection of over 200 sauces has attained classic status as the essential guide in every good cook&#39;s kitchen. The techniques and methods of sauce making are explained simply and clearly, many illustrated with step-by-step instructions and photographs. A comprehensive directory which recommends the best sauces for key dishes and ingredients is also included.

Sauces

Savoury & Sweet

Trine Hahnemann

This is the perfect little gift for Scandi fans who want to bring some Nordic charm into their kitchen.With over 60 sweet and savoury recipes for all sorts of snacks, treats, fingerfood, bakes and pastries, it will provide plenty of inspiration for every occasion throughout the year.Doyenne of Danish baking, Trine Hahnemann, shares all her favourite treats in this cute cookbook so that you can make your own delicious cardamom buns, almond cookies, honey bombs, coconut macaroons and smoked salmon open sandwiches, among many others.

Scandi Bites

60 Recipes for Sweet Treats, Party Food and Other Little Scandinavian Snacks

Samantha Evans

Shauna Guinn

In 2012 Sam and Shauna ditched their jobs and embarked on a 6-month road trip around the best barbecue joints in the southern United States. From Texas to Tallahassee, they learned the insider secrets of what makes barbecue great, were captivated by the thrill of smoke and fire, and back home in Cardiff they set out their meat manifesto in the form of Hang Fire Southern Kitchen. Now they&#39;re booked out week after week as customers flock to Hang Fire for stunning dishes including smoked brisket, ultimate pork &#39;n&#39; slaw and tailgate hot-wings. This paperback edition of their amazing cookbook reveals how they make their delicious recipes, and the secrets behind the perfect smoke and BBQ. Sam and Shauna explain the basics of getting started with a home smoker and different types of wood, and what rubs, cures and brines work best with certain types of meat. Hang Fire&#39;s approach is simple: get the best ingredients, cook them low &#39;n&#39; slow, and tuck in. 
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Hang Fire Cookbook

Recipes and Adventures in American BBQ

Christian Stevenson

From the no 1 bestselling author DJ BBQ comes the definitive burger book.This is the only burger book you&#39;ll ever need &ndash; the only burger book you&#39;ll ever want! And it&#39;s not just beef burgers &ndash; The Burger Book is packed with burger recipes covering options for fish, chicken, veggie, vegan, pork and lamb. It has buns. It has sauces. It has sides.It has all the delicious flavours and madcap shenanigans that you&#39;ve come to expect from DJ BBQ and his crew. So whether you want a classic, 10inch, lockjaw beef burger, or fancy trying a smoked haddock burger, beetroot burger or gravy burger (yes, the burgers are soaked in gravy!), this is the book for you.Learn to cook these burgers like a pro, whether on the grill or back indoors, and understand the art of assembling the ultimate bun-wrapped feast.

The Burger Book

Banging Burgers, Sides and Sauces to Cook Indoors and Out

DI Helen Grace Novellas

Crumpled, slapdash and foul-mouthed as ever, Detective Inspector Jack Frost struggles to cope with inadequate back-up and never enough time; the unsolved crimes pile up and the vicious killings go on. Frost must cut corners and take risks as he staggers from crisis to crisis, rapists to murderers, missing bodies to discovered body parts; will he be able to keep Denton safe?

DI Jack Frost

Prepare to be gripped by this prequel series to R.D. Wingfield's A Touch of Frost. 
 
Back in Denton, Detective Sergeant Jack Frost returns to investigating murders, finding missing children, and discovering dead bodies in woodland areas. With Detective Inspector Williams missing, and a new policeman, DS Waters, to mentor, DS Jack Frost has to put the stresses and straings of his personal life on hold in order to keep Denton safe.

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