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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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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This is a haunting, elegiac novel which captures the mood & atmosphere of Italy (and in particular Ferrara) in the last summers of the thirties, focusing on an aristocratic Jewish family moving imperceptibly towards its doom. Vittorio De Sica turned the book into a film in 1970, winning the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1974. ...

The third book in The Corfu Trilogy (after My Family & Other Animals & Birds, Beasts & Relatives), the beloved books that inspired ITV`s television series The Durrells. Just before the Second World War the Durrell family decamped to the glorious, sun-soaked island of Corfu where the youngest of the four children, ten-year-old Gerald, discovered his passion for animals: toads & tortoises, bats & butterflies, scorpions & octopuses. Through glorious silver-green olive groves & across brilliant-white beaches Gerry pursued his obsession.. .causing hilarity & mayhem in his ever-tolerant family. ...

Innovative, startlingly perceptive & aglow with colour, these fifteen stories were written towards the end of Katherine Mansfield`s tragically short life. Many are set in the author`s native New Zeal&, others in England & the French Riviera. All are revelations of the unspoken, half-understood emotions that make up everyday experience
- from the blackly comic ` The Daughters of the Late Colonel`, & the short, sharp sketch ` Miss Brill`, in which a lonely woman`s precarious sense of self is brutally destroyed, to the vivid impressionistic evocation of family life in ` At the Bay`. ` All that I write, ` Mansfield said, `all that I am
- is on the borders of the sea. It is a kind of playing.`

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