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Planning a three course meal can be tricky when you’re trying to look at three different pages at the same time. With Mix& Match Menus, you can have three recipes on the same page. The unique and easy-to-use format is the star feature of this book, with pages split into three sections offering delicious options for Starters, Main Courses and Desserts. Readers can easily flip through recipes course by course to plan an appetizing and well-balanced menu, with a handy elastic band ensuring that your menu combination stays in place.

These days we’re all concerned about the failing populations of the honey bee, so when this book popped through the letterbox I was keen to read it. The Bee garden – Maureen Little, demonstrates how each of us can play a part in providing an enviromment in which bees can flourish. Little’s narrative is interesting to read. It details the bee colony and the life of the honey bee, and what it needs to survive. If you are going to plant a garden, why not optimise the plants you choose to attract and nurture bees. This is a beautifully illustrated book that makes extremely good reading. I highly recommend it. www.howtobooks.co.uk.

Sometimes a life threatening illness can jolt us into paying more attention to our health and wellbeing. This is exactly what happened to Gloria Halim. At the peak of her carrer she was diagnosed with cancer, at which point her life changed completely.  ‘Healing Foods Healthy Foods’ is the result of her research into how we can help to maintain our immune system and  improve our diets in order to prevent life threatening illnesses. In conjunction with Samantha Russo, a qualified Food Nutrition Advisor, the books lists the superfoods we can use to help fight disease and great recipes we can use them in. Available from Amazon, or www.howtobooks.co.uk.