The gardening geniuses from The Little Veggie Patch Co are back with The Little Veggie Patch Co’s Guide To Backyard Farming. There’s one chapter for every month of the year, featuring information on the fruit, vegetables and herbs to plant and harvest in that month, as well as recipes to match your seasonal produce.

In the realm of the biographical, The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy by historian David Nasaw tracks Joseph’s astonishing passage from an East Boston outsider to Washington insider.

I’m Your Man: The Life of Leonard Cohen by music journalist Sylvie Simmons is a definitive account of the life of poet, novelist and musician Leonard Cohen. Delving into every contradictory thread of the life of this artist, Jew, Monk and academic, Sylvie Simmons uncovers the nuances and tales of the man who brought us ‘Bird on the Wire’ and ‘Hallelujah’.

Embracing the celebratory manner of Christmas, gift the ever-handy The Gentleman’s Guide to Cocktails by Alfred Tong. A sleek and dapper compendium of the most suave of cocktails, The Gentleman’s Guide to Cocktails teaches you to craft the classics as well offering up recipes for cool and retro-inspired fogmatics and alcoholic teas.

The classic, ever-masculine Fiesta: The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway lets the mind escape into the fictional take on Hemingway’s summers of watching bull fights and drinking too much.

Pick up these books from Avid Reader in West End or online.