Cookery

• Good Housekeeping Cookery Bible – it all starts with a good reference book
• How to Cook by Delia Smith
• Domestic Goddess by Nigella Lawson
• Plenty by Yotam Ottolenghi
• The Book of Jewish Food by Claudia Roden
• Real Fast Food by Nigel Slater
• The Kitchen Diaries by Nigel Slater

Vegetarian Compilations:

• Cranks

Gardening:

• RHS Plant selector
• RHS Gardening
• RHS Herbs

Finance & the Economy

• Fool’s Gold by Gillian Tett

Maths & Science

• The Sceptical Environmentalist by Bjorn Lomborg
• Godel Escher and Bach by DR Hofstadter
• Bad Science by Ben Goldacre
• Longitude by Dava Sobel
• Freakonomics by Stephen D Leavitt
• Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
• The Periodic Table by Primo Levi
• The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks

Historic

• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Political and Polemic

• Fat is a Feminist Issue by Susie Orbach
• The Female Eunuch by Germaine Greer
• The Beauty Myth by Naomi Wolf
• The Colour Purple by Alice Walker (I know it’s fiction!)
• Backlash by Susan Faludi
• America by Jon Stewart
• Fast Food Nation by Eroc Schlosser