The Hostess Cookbook. A Complete Guide to Perfect Entertaining. Anne Ager & Pamela Westland.

This cookbook is filled with entertaining know how. Impress your guests with recipes for cocktails, how to make good coffee and of course delcious recipes. It also has great table set ups.

There’s loads of colour photographs which will have you salivating.

This ripper of a book is hard to come by.

ISBN 0 86273 101 1