Heather Thomas wrote this for the two people at every Christmas table who need it: the host with veggie relatives arriving and no plan, and the vegetarian who has eaten one dry nut roast too many.

Sixty recipes cover the whole day across five chapters, Christmassy Canapes, Sparkling Salads and Sides, Merry Mains, Holly Jolly Leftovers and Dazzling Desserts, and every one of them is vegetarian or vegan. It is a small hardback, 112 pages at roughly seven by eight inches, which is the size that still fits somewhere on a worktop that is already full.