This volume is not about being a goddess, but about feeling like one. Nigella shows that there can be more feelgood mileage from running up a tray of muffins or baking a sponge cake than in almost any other cooking - and that it's not actually hard.

This revised version of Delia Smith's Complete Cookery Course offers recipes and instructions that are clear, comprehensive and pretty near infallible. The text is updated to reflect the eating habits of the 1990s and is accompanied by a wide range of illustrations.

This work offers a selection of accessible, traditional summer dishes that includes avocado salsa and pesto rice salad, spiced lamb and kebabs, and strawberry cheesecake ice cream.

This cookery book provides easy-to-prepare recipes specially devised for the single cook, so that they don't have to divide ordinary recipes for four into a meal for one person.

Here, Elizabeth David deals with all aspects of flour-milling, yeast, bread ovens, and the different types of bread and flour available. The recipes cover yeast cookery of all kinds, including old-fashioned spiced buns, buns, pancakes, and muffins.

As millions of Delia s followers have come to expect, her Winter Collection reassures the least confident of cooks while offering inspiration to the more experienced.