How to stop worrying whether you're worrying properly or worrying enough or too little. Worrying should be worry-free but it can't be so sod it and start living instead. I loved this book.

I love a lot of books but this one is on my shelf because it taught me how to just move right on over those awkward people (and it taught me not to get out of my car before I did so). People often say SUMO to themselves - I say it to others...

Banish those tenacious, self-defeating, aspects of your personality (get a divorce and sell the dog). Or you might read this book and just zap your gremlins. It worked for me.

Depression, panic attacks an anxiety. It's like having a head full of damp socks, nothing works the way it worked yesterday (unless yesterday was a bad day too). Put this fantastic book into your self-help kit-bag next to the sharpened stakes and the silver bullets.

There's a lot of nonsense talked about the ritual of English afternoon tea. For one thing nobody, nobody, ever ever ever has lemon in their tea in England, Britain or indeed anywhere in the Commonwealth. It's milk. Milk in tea, only!

Dinner at Buck Hice ("Hice" is how we posh folk pronounce "house"). Dinner at Buck Hice can be a reward or it can be the last daylight you'll ever see. A splendidly revealing book.

From the Romans on through the Tudors and Stuarts, into Victoriana and the Far Eastern influences, Britain's much-maligned cookery has been one of our best kept (well, totally kept) secrets...