Spawning from her Speedy Weeknight Suppers column for The Telegraph online, Ms MacGregor presents over 100 tried-and-tested recipes using fresh seasonal ingredients.

Sponge cakes to chicken parcels, strawberry puddings to breads. This Great British Bake Off chef always adds the vibrant flavours of the East.

The Herb Companion is described as an essential guide to using herbs for your health and well-being … with a couple of recipes thrown in. A cookery book this isn’t.

Here’s a book to awaken your culinary senses with the authentic flavours of Pakistan. Food writer and cookery teacher Sumayya Usmani takes a trip down memory lane

Do you like food? Do you like science? The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science is the book for you.

You aren’t going to cook from this book, in fact it’s probably the case that very few people ever will. If you could, and did, then you’d be a chef of the same skill as Juan Mari Arzak and, like Highlander, there can be only one.

Lucinda Bruce-Gardyne sets out to dispel the myth that gluten-free cooking is complicated in The Genius Gluten-Free Cookbook.

With over 70 traditional and non-traditional recipes this book reignites the ramen rave but this time keeps it right at home. Simple step by step instructions to build each dish and so seductively photographed you’ll be slurping like a salaryman in no time.

There’s a wealth of information contained within the book to support adopting a more Mediterranean diet, including ways of adapting to it. The introduction discusses the history of the diet, the principles, the benefits, the portions, descriptions of the foods to embrace and a 14-day sample menu.

Whether you successfully lose weight using this cookbook I cannot say as yet. But I’ll have a jolly delicious time trying.