The culinary heritage of the Balearic Islands employs familiar Mediterranean ingredients – olive oil, garlic, rice and fresh fish – and resourceful cooking methods passed down for generations.

With dishes such as Menorcan-Style Stuffed Eggplant, Baked Fish with Spinach and Swiss Chard, Black Rice with Cuttlefish and Artichokes, Pork with Wild Mushrooms, Baked Figs, Almond Cookies, and Formentera’s most famous dessert, Fresh Cheesecake with Mint, this book celebrates the islands’ sweet and savoury classics.

Vivid short essays shine a spotlight on traditions and rituals, local ingredients, and essential techniques.

• Format: Hardback
• Illustrated: 145 illustrations
• Pages: 352
• Dimensions: 270x205mm

Brand: Bookspeed

Brand: Bookspeed 

Looking for seashells and learning their names is the perfect way to explore the coastline. It’s a simple pleasure, and a way to discover some of nature’s most exquisite wonders. From the common cockle to the blue-rayed limpet, this illustrated guide, written by a marine biologist, covers the beautiful and surprising range of mussels, oysters, periwinkles, scallops, cowries, whelks and more to be found on the shoreline.

• Illustrated: Colour illustrations
• Pages: 112
• Dimensions: 162x129mm

Brand: Bookspeed

Whether you’re serving a starter before a meal, enjoying some small bites with drinks, or filling the table with multiple dishes to feast on, there is no bad time to indulge in tapas. \

With 60 recipes to choose from, this book includes all the classics from the perennially popular Patatas Bravas and Spanish Omelette, to Chorizo in Red Wine and Peppers Stuffed with Salt Cod. Many of the dishes can be made in advance, so you can enjoy time with family or guests.

• Illustrated: 100 colour photos
• Pages: 144
• Dimensions: 210x170mm

Brand: Bookspeed

Growing flowers in pots is a simple and fun way to enhance any space, from small city plots to huge gardens.

Get the pots right and your garden will take on a cheerful energy of its own.

Here are practical design tips that will really enhance your containers, with ingenious tricks for combining flower colours, plant structures and placement.

All the flowers and planting schemes have been tried and tested over decades, and have principles will work at any scale and across the seasons, whether you have one pot or a garden full of them.

• Author: Raven, Sarah & Buckley, Jonathan
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Ltd
• Format: Hardback
• Illustrated: Photography
• Pages: 416
• Dimensions: 230x170mm

Brand: Bookspeed