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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For more than 20 years, the gap-year guidebook has provided up-to-date, unbiased & essential advice for those considering a gap-year, year out or career break. The guidebook is divided into 12 informative chapters & is the must-have reference book for anyone considering volunteering, working or studying at home or abroad, learning a new skill & much, much more. ...

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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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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There are a multitude of ` London Calling` cards in the collection at Rocket 68. This lively illustrated range of London themed prints & cards aims to portray the vibrancy & beauty of London`s architecture, areas, life & communities. Each card is supplied with quality Gunpowder grey envelope in a cellophane wrapper. These cards are all illustrated by Jill White & printed in the UK on a lovely soft Calisto FSC accredited board. ...

Take a journey through The Garden of Earthly Delights & revel in the intricate detail of Adriana Picker`s illustrations as you colour to your unique style. These incredible illustrations are both exquisitely beautiful but with a dark undertone, where amidst the flora you can find lurking insects just waiting to be brought to life through colour. Enjoy the therapeutic benefit of this popular pastime as you unlock the secrets on every page & develop the piece from an illustration into a masterpiece. ...

Malaya, 1949, & Yun Ling Teoh, a Cambridge law graduate who`s spent time helping to prosecute Japanese war criminals, has returned to the jungle-fringed plantations of her childhood. Herself a scarred prisoner of war survivor, Yun Ling has to battle her hatred of the Japanese when she meets the charismatic Aritomo; owner & curator of Malaya`s only Japanese garden & former gardener to the country`s emperor. Despite her cautious advances, Aritomo is reluctant to create a new garden in Kuala Lumpur in memory of Yun Ling`s sister, who died in the camp she escaped. But he does agree to take on Yun Lin as his new apprentice ”until the monsoon comes”, by which point she can design a green space for herself. While her knowledge & appreciation of Aritomo`s skill increases day by day, so too does the threat of kidnapping & murder at the hands of the jungle hinterland`s guerrillas. As the weeks go by, certain mysteries deepen
- why did Aritomo leave Japan? & how did Yun Ling manage to survive the war while those around her perishedshortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, The Garden of Evening Mists is Tan Twan Eng`s poignant depiction of Malaysia`s rocky road to independence. Buy your copy today!
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