Take a leaf from these

I BET lots of you have a book token or two or tucked away somewhere since Christmas, so before they get lost here are a few suggestions for cookery books that have caught my fancy in the past few months.

One of my best new finds is Five Fat Hens, The Chicken and Egg cookbook. It’s engagingly written by Tim Halket, an author I had never even heard of before.

The publicity blurb for the book states: “A love of eating and good ingredients led Tim to build a hen house in the corner of his garden for a daily harvest of fresh eggs. His take on the role of keeping chickens is amusing and insightful but this book is more than just a DIY guide to keeping a few free range birds, or a new slant on a chicken themed cookbook.