Six Square Metres: Gardening in the Inner City | 
pickSurely the best book about gardening you'll have ever read. The author's garden at times lends metaphoric gravitas, but mostly it is just a garden, and a great little garden at that. Urban, wild, fertile and populous, you can almost pick the greedy fat slugs off the page and run your hand over the frothy tendrils of new parsley shoots. Simons' stunning garden book is a memoir grafted onto creative nonfic. I'll mint a new genre for her - leaflit.