Mary's Household Tips and Tricks

Britain’s best-loved cook and national treasure Mary Berry lets readers in on her household secrets … A comprehensive, beautifully illustrated guide that shares her greatest tips on how to care for your home.‘This book is a collection of skills I’ve learned for running a home. Gleaned from years of practical experience, along with all the hints that friends and family have imparted to me, I hope it will be a helping hand’ - Mary Berry

* From the publisher’s description *It is such a beautiful thing. It’s practical AND beautiful … almost like it’s an ideal gift … – Graham Norton * BBC Radio 2 *The Queen of British Baking has whipped up a recipe for ‘home happiness’ in her new book * Independent *Mary Berry lives and breathes good old-fashioned values, with a dash of steely trail-blazing * Guardian *Mary Berry offers no-nonsense assessments like a blunt but loving auntie * Washington Post *Good housekeeping - Baking queen Mary Berry steps out of the kitchen and offers a recipe for home happiness * Edinburgh Evening News *

Bestselling cookery writer and TV star cook, Dame Mary has written over 80 cookbooks, including the classic Mary Berry’s Complete Cookbook (DK, 2017) which has sold over 1.5 million copies internationally. Her career began when she developed a passion for domestic science at school and she went on to train at the Cordon Bleu in Paris. In 2020, Mary received the honour of Damehood in the Queen’s birthday honours. She has been an Ambassador for the Royal Horticultural Society since 2014 and is President Emeritus of the National Garden Scheme.

Cordon Bleu trained in Paris, Mary began her career as a magazine cookery editor before publishing her first cookery book in 1966. In 2009, Mary was awarded the highly coveted Guild of Food Writers Lifetime Achievement Award and in 2012 she was made a CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list.