Kate Young, award-winning food writer and cook, returns with a gorgeous book about eating and reading through the seasons.

'A very special book' DIANA HENRY. 'Perfect' NINA STIBBE. The Little Library Year takes you through a full twelve months in award-winning food writer Kate Young's kitchen. Here are frugal January meals enjoyed alone with a classic comfort read, as well as summer feasts to be eaten outdoors with the perfect beach read to hand. Beautifully photographed throughout, The Little Library Year is full of delicious seasonal recipes, menus and reading recommendations. 'A wonderful, brilliant book' RUBY TANDOH. 'The best present a food-obsessed bookworm could ask for' OLIA HERCULES. 'Tender, gorgeous, clever and generous' ELLA RISBRIDGER. 'Bibliophile foodies have a treat in store for them. Many treats, in fact' JASPER FFORDE.

"A deeply personal book written in a sincere voice; reading it is like talking to your best and greediest book-loving friend" - Daily Telegraph.

"[An] engaging cookbook... Young's culinary almanac is sure to inspire an appetite for reading as well as cooking'" - Town & Country UK

"This is the book to curl up with on Christmas Day. It's a big cosy hug of a read, written with such love and care... Kate's recipes and suggestions for timely books to read as you cook and then eat are seamlessly blended'" - Haverhill Echo

"Bookworm Kate Young has penned the perfect gift for foodie friends who revel in the meal descriptions in their favourite novels'" - Sainsbury's Magazine

"What to eat when, and with what perfect read in your hand, need never be a cause for concern again thanks to Kate Young's latest cookbook. She considers the art of eating, imagination and literature in the most hunger-inducing ways" - Dorset Echo

"A beautifully presented, written and illustrated book, which gives real insight into the author and her love of the English seasons, and should inspire anybody to both cook and read more" - Crumbs