Best non-fiction books 2017 – the list so far
Some of us are recent converts to non-fiction, and we feel rather zealous about it. Contrary to what we thought, non-fiction shouldn't remind you of school. You shouldn't struggle through it or only have it on your shelf for showing off.
No, it should be un-putdownable, life changing. You should want to press these pages into your friend's hands, into stranger's hands, rearrange your local bookshops' shelves and start Twitter-stalking the authors.
All this madness awaits: first you have to read our pick of the best non-fiction of 2017.
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A cookbook you can derive pleasure from without even cooking any of the recipes. In fact, Plagiarism even has one recipe compelling the cook to bin the finished creation (Edward Lear also used this trick).
It might be better not to cook at all, and read instead. Meades was the Times' food critic for 15 years – a brilliant, Swiftian writer and, as this book shows, a dab hand at telling you his opinion on how to really cook, eat, and when to steal someone else's recipes. "Homemade begs one question. Whose home? Have you ever actually seen people’s homes? Why should biscuits made at home be better than those baked in a factory, a factory that specialises in biscuits?"
