Given how much we eat, it's amazing that no book has ever been devoted to toast. Here Heidi Nathan provides a true first with contributions from Dame Maureen Lipman and Joanna Lumley. An essential guide to tastier toast toppings featuring delicious recipes sprinkled with anecdotes and facts on the history of toast 'Bread and water can so easily be tea and toast.' was famously written on a tea towel and in the pages of Punch magazine in 1852 where a man cried 'No bread? Then bring me toast!' For Heidi Nathan 'it has become my guilt trip to just stick whatever is left in the fridge on a slice of hot buttered toast. At the expense of my BMI, this, shamefully, has become primarily how I eat.' But for her toast is much more than a grilled slice of bread. In this book she gives the ultimate guide to what you can put on toast. Joanna Lumley explains her own favourite toppings which include Home-made marmalade, quite sour, quite chunky. Marmite: and sometimes peanut butter on top of the marmite, with watercress squashed onto the top of that. Baked beans pronounced baked beings for no reason other than to get an easy laugh. She is a great comedienne after all. Toast also involves technology. The "modern" timed pop-up toaster was created in 1919. Toasters got increasingly thinner and blended into the late 20th century kitchen neatly, until the tide turned as tides tend to do and bulky alloy mock art deco ones emerged.

Quick and easy one-pot meals

Award -winning author Louisa Holst is back with another brilliant concept: A collection of simple and delicious dishes that are cooked on the stovetop using only one pot or pan.

In ONE POT, Louisa serves up nutritious weeknight winners that are big on flavour and on your table in under an hour. You save time, effort and money, with the added bonus of less washing up.

ONE POT is for anyone looking for quick-and-easy family supper solutions using economical, local ingredients.

The book is ideal for busy people, families and young adults, as well as for weeknight meals and camping trips and has everything from cooking tips, soups, stir-fries, pasta and rice dishes, to batch cooking and sweet treats.

By the author of the super selling series: The South African Air Fryer Cookbook.

Weekends are important, so make yours count by turning mealtimes into edible adventures.Shake off the week and kick back with a selection of mind-blowing recipes that will transform your cooking repertoire from mundane to magic. Make the most of everyday ingredients and look forward to eating meals you'll never forget.

• More than 90 delicious and decadent recipes
• Features beautiful photography of each recipe
• From Friday night global takeout recipes to Monday morning boosters