What begins as a straightforward holiday weekend for Sir Edward Leithen in a splendid stately home in the Cotswolds soon turns into something altogether different when one of Lady Flambard`s other guests, the enigmatic Professor Moe, enlists the help of Leithen & his companions in a bizarre experiment to glimpse the future. For those who take part, the consequences are dramatic & Leithen`s formidable powers of reasoning are brought to the fore. ...

Historic monuments of Armagh, Down, Louth & Monaghan & the folklore surrounding them, in particular the Ring of Gullion which stands at the heart of South Armagh. The beautiful photographs of these monuments are accompanied by text, drawings & maps, locating the historic tradition of these border counties within the wider Irish tradition. ...

”A shining delight of a novel”. (New York Times). ” Clever & beautiful...it soars”. (Financial Times). A baby girl is abandoned, banished from London to the storm-ravaged American city of New Bohemia. Her father has been driven mad by jealousy, her mother to exile by grief. Seventeen years later, Perdita doesn`t know a lot about who she is or where she`s come from
- but she`s about to find out. Jeanette Winterson`s cover version of The Winter`s Tale vibrates with echoes of Shakespeare`s original & tells a story of hearts broken & hearts healed, a story of revenge & forgiveness, a story that shows that whatever is lost shall be found. ” Emotionally wrought & profoundly intelligent...A supremely clever, compelling & emotionally affecting novel that deserves multiple readings to appreciate its many layers”. (Mail on Sunday). ” There are passages here so concisely beautiful they give you goosebumps”. (Observer). ” Pulsates with such authenticity & imaginative generosity that I defy you not to engage with it”. (Independent).
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Jeanette Winterson`s cover version of The Winter`s Tale vibrates with echoes of the original but tells a contemporary story where Time itself is a player in a game of high stakes that will either end in tragedy or forgiveness. It shows us that however far we have been separated, whatever is lost shall be found. ...

The Gap Yah Plannah is the ultimate guide to your gap year bantering. Grab your lashmina & get ready to chunder. So, you didn`t get the grades, & you`ve decided to take a gap yah. Well, this is the gap year guide for you. Or, you massively love life & want to have a cheeky beer in loads of waard places around the world, & have decided to take a gap yah. This is the gap year guide for you, too. From budgeting for your time away (mummy & daddy`s credit card) & what not to bring (respect for the law
- that only inhibits your fun), to how to say `vomcano` in Spanish, this is the absolutely essential spiritual, political & cultural guide to making the most of your gap yah.
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The Garden at Charleston
- A Bloomsbury Garden through the Seasons captures the year round beauty & glory of one of English culture’s
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Each designer is represented by a full-page illustration, mostly in colour, of their most significant garden & an accompanying text that describes the image & discusses the type of garden & its role in the further development of the tradition. Each page

Includes:: cross-references to other designers working in a similar style, movement, or time period, as well as biographical information about the designer, & complete data on the garden reproduced.

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In high-end restaurants & in the home, more & more cooks have discovered the joy of using natural foraged ingredients. But, what few realise is that you don`t necessarily have to go rootling in hedgerows or woodlands to find them. Many of our own gardens contain an abundance of edible & medicinal plants, grown mainly for their ornamental appearance. Most gardeners are completely unaware that what they have actually planted is a rather exotic kitchen garden. The Garden Forager explores over 40 of the most popular garden plants that have edible, medicinal or even cosmetic potential, accompanied by recipes, remedies, & interesting facts, & illustrated throughout in exquisite watercolours by Lizzie Harper. This beautifully illustrated book redefines how we look at our gardens & unleashes the unknown potential of everyday plants
- making it a must-have for anyone interested in gardening, cooking, or foraging.
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For anyone who's wanted to live the dream but never had the nerve to try. It was a derelict smallholding so high up in the Black Mountains of Wales it was routinely lost in cloud. But to Antony Woodward, Tair-Ffynnon was the most beautiful place in the world. Equally ill-at-ease in town & country after too long in London's ad-l&, Woodward bought Tair-Ffynnon because he yearned to reconnect with the countryside he never felt part of as a child. But what excuse could he invent to move there permanently? The solution, he decided, was a garden. In just a year he'd create a garden so special it would be selected for the prestigious Yellow Book -- the famous National Gardens Scheme guide to gardens open to the public for charity. It's an unlikely ambition to entertain in this most unlikely of settings, & one that soon sees Woodward driven by odder & odder compulsions -- from hauling a 20-tonne railway carriage up the mountain to making hay with hopelessly antiquated machinery. The path to Woodward's elusive sense of belonging turns out to be a rocky & winding one, taking in childhood haunts, children's books & Proustian nostalgia trips. As the family battles gales, mud & Welsh mountain sheep of marble-eyed cunning, not to mention the notoriously fastidious NGS County Organiser, it remains deeply uncertain whether the ' Not Garden' & the 'infinity vegetable patch' (that grows only stones) will ever make the grade! Warm, thought-provoking & brilliantly funny, this is a memoir of a hopeless romantic with a grandly ludicrous ambition -- an ambition to which anyone who's ever dropped into a garden centre, or opened a packet of seeds, has already succumbed. ...

Winner of the National Trust Outdoor Book of the Year 2011 The story of one man`s unlikely quest to create out of a mountainous Welsh landscape a garden fit for inclusion in the prestigious Yellow Book
- the ` Gardens of England & Wales Open for Charity` guide
- in just one year. The son of two passionate gardeners, Antony Woodward was born with chlorophyll running through his veins. Unfortunately, growing up with Latin plant names took its toll, & he was ingrained early on with a profound loathing of both gardens & gardening. Buying Tair-ffynnon, a derelict smallholding 1, 300 feet up in the Black Mountains of Wales, changed everything. Hooked by its beauty
- when not buried in cloud
- Woodward battles to meet the strict requirements of the famous ` Yellow Book` in this unlikely terrain. He finds himself driven by apparently inexplicable compulsions: wood chopping, hauling a 20-tonne railway carriage up a mountain, even beekeeping. Soon, his voyage along the rocky path to his own patch of paradise takes on a more personal tenor as he unearths the deep roots linking gardening & his childhood in this warm, funny & unlikely memoir. Beautifully written & effortlessly engaging, ` The Garden in the Clouds` is a compelling read for anyone who has ever gardened
- or ever dreamt of doing so.




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