Cooking aloneSupper for one? 'Cooking Alone' is a delicious miniature compendium of tales inspired by a cast of eccentric solitary characters. Brimming with entertaining anecdotes, recipes (rabbit with aubergine and prunes, anyone?) and top tips (ever wondered how to store ice cream in a bedsit?), Kathleen Le Riche is a witty, charming guide to the single life.

Displaying a nuanced understanding of 20th-century art and its demons

Facing the gruelling SAS selection process on one leg

overseen by devoted parents

'Shelf Respect' will validate your life choices

He looks too at the drystone walls of Scotland

the loved and grieved-over prodigal son of a Presbyterian minister in Gilead

a slave recently arrived from Virginia

With 'Fire and Fury'

author of the bestselling 'Walker's Guide' and 'How To Read Water'

and being at the most famous junction in music history

whether high or low

Jonathan Davies has the answer to all these questions and more