Natasha Tomalin, Stylist’s designer, roots for Nigel Slater’s The Kitchen Diaries II (out now, £30, Fourth Estate) The release of a new cookbook excites me so much more than any novel ...

Opening my Nigel Slater Kitchen Diaries II to the April chapter, which down under is seasonally appropriate in October, I become hungry for lemon curd. Nigel extoles its virtues for two whole pages.