3) Real Fast Food: 350 recipes ready-to-eat in 30 minutes, by Nigel Slater

Bought this in the same shop as Brave New World, for the same price (50p). It’s been a real inspiration to me this holiday; the concept is a very straightforward one, cooking really tasty meals reasonably quickly. I can’t say that it always took me less than half an hour to do the recipes, but the results were worth it. Slater encourages experimenting, and this evening’s meal was my substition of stewed leek instead of fennel in his pork and lemon dish. All very yummy.