The Mental Fitness Guide, by Gillian Butler and Tony Hope (OUP, £7.99 in UK)

Hup, two, three, four, and no slouching at the back. If your idea of a workout for your mind is walking to the bus stop while listening to 98FM on your Walkman, think again, for with the help of this book (assembled by, respectively, a clinical psychologist and a clinical psychiatrist) you can jog the old brain cells into peak fitness in no time at all. And then what, you may ask? I suspect it's the usual things; you too can overcome anxiety, sleep problems, eating disorders, biting your nails, etc, etc. But having fallen at pretty much the first hurdle - writing your own funeral oration, chapter two - I have to admit that this brave new brain remains elusively beyond my grasp.