'Short and Sweet' by Dan Lepard

I'm no great cook - less cordon bleu, more cordoned off - but I owe some of my successes in the kitchen to Dan Lepard, baker extraordinaire, who has a regular cookery column in The Guardian. His new book, Short and Sweet, has just been published and it brings together hundreds of wonderful recipes for bread, cakes, biscuits, puddings, etc. The recipes are easy to understand and Dan's photographs (is there no end to his talent, dammit...?) will have you drooling. It retails at £25, but you can currently pick it up on Amazon for £14. It's a bargain, either way, and I reckon that it's likely to become a classic.