How time flies when you are having fun.
This is the 30th anniversary publication of the father of annual pocket wine guides, which remains for many the best of the bunch. Hugh Johnson wrote the first one by himself, but today a large team compiles the information squeezed into its 290 pages. However, his adventurous spirit and down-to-earth tone prevails throughout the pithy, but informative, entries. (Mitchell Beazley, £9.99). JB