Russell Steabben

This is a very comprehensive guide to creating cocktails, with recipes (sometimes more than one recipe per cocktail when there's not a standard agreed version), and a useful section on glasses, garnishes etc. Make sure you buy the most up to date version to get the recipe for the cocktail of the moment.

If I have any complaint, its that there aren't enough pictures. I think gastro-porn cookbooks have nearly ruined me for anything that doesn't have a picture of every single recipe.