September Book Reviews

Here are some new book releases worth looking out for this month

Nights Out in the Kitchen 

by Jay Rayner

In his bestselling cookbook Nights Out At Home, Jay Rayner reflected on his quarter-century as a restaurant critic and outed himself as not only a professional eater, but someone with a profound understanding of how the very best meals are crafted. Poured over in kitchens across the nation, it offered inspiration and permission to roll up our sleeves and start cooking our favourite restaurant dishes at home.

Now, in Nights Out in the Kitchen, readers will encounter Jay in his kitchen, with another 40 cleverly reverse-engineered recipes, taking inspiration from restaurants and chefs across the UK, alongside 20 of his very own recipes, including meatballs with braised spaghetti, shaved fennel and lemon zest salad, tartiflette tart and slow-cooked tandoori lamb shoulder.

The author’s warmth and love of the restaurant industry and of great home cooking spills off every page of this beautifully written and inspiring cookbook. (Includes colour inset illustrations)

Published September 3^rd by Penguin Books. 

Gruffalo Granny

by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler

Return to the deep dark wood with the first new Gruffalo story in over 20 years, and meet Gruffalo Granny as she visits the Gruffalo family.

This, the eagerly-anticipated third picture book in Donaldson and Scheffler's iconic series, brings about a fresh and exciting new Gruffalo adventure featuring the return of much-loved characters which is destined to become a classic.

Published September 10^th by Pan Macmillan

Let Dem Know 

by Benjamin Zephaniah

A playful, funny and thought-provoking collection from the iconic Benjamin Zephaniah. Poems packed with wisdom and laughter, poems that cherish and challenge our world, poems that delight in our differences and similarities.

Let Dem Know is the perfect introduction to a true original – and inspiration for the young writers, speakers and thinkers of the future, from a poet sorely missed.

Published September 10^th by Puffin

How I’ve Tried to Save the World 

by Alexei Sayle

Comedy legend and lifelong socialist Alexei Sayle delivers a bracing, polemical and absolutely hilarious chronicle of his life on the 'left', covering marches, miners and Marxist ideology with wit and infectious passion.

A memoir of his life, it covers seven decades of social history told through key marches and rallies. 

Published September 3^rd by Orion Books.