Can you really grow a better sex life?

Fiann Ó Nualláin explores the ethnobotany of seduction and the use of aromatherapy to set mood while looking at food to enhance romance for the gardener and his or her beloved, this Valentine’s weekend.

As a teenager if I wasn’t squandering my Saturdays flicking through the albums in Freebird Records, then I was scanning through the titles on the bookshelves in Greene’s or the Winding Stair bookshop in Dublin.

Sometimes a name would catch you, sometimes a cover. Other times you took a chance on randomness. A few duds but some fantastic finds.