Reviews 

Although a lot of the science in this book was way beyond me, it is brilliant. Written by a fairly well-known TV medic, it is an...

Read this again as it is book group tonight. I can’t say that it was much better on a second reading. The heroine was a slightly bohemian...

I can’t pretend to have read this cover to cover, as it is half recipes and half Sophie Grigson’s emigration from the UK to Puglia, which...

A library book of Paddy’s, about how reading helped a girl to (partially) overcome her anorexia. I found it quite annoying; the author is...

Another one not completed sadly, I don’t like this. A birthday present from P (like 539) so another unread. Nothing particularly wrong...

Zola’s books can be hard work. This is no.3 in the Rougon series; another completely different set of characters. This is set in the...

I read this probably in reaction to Rick Stein's book (no.292). Hopkinson is a cook rather than a restauranteur (he may be that as well)...

Autobiography of the well known chef and restaurateur. I liked the guy more before reading this than after. A fairly spoiled and...