The first Garden Expert was published 50 years ago & has taught generations how to garden. It has sold over 5 million copies & has been translated into 27 languages. It is the world's best-selling introduction to gardening. But the world has changed & so has gardening. We still need to know the basic facts, but there are also new varieties & new techniques such as no-digging & no-weeding. Also we are much more conscious of the environment
- safety, pollution, the birds & butterflies & the other wildlife which come into our garden, etc. The Green Garden Expert sets out what you need to know in order to look after your garden. It also shows you how to care for wildlife, the environment & your own well-being. Whether you decide upon a completely organic approach or prefer to take just a few steps along the environmentally-friendly road, The Green Garden Expert explains the options. It shows you how to choose the right plants for the right place, & how to plant & care for flowers, trees, shrubs, fruit, vegetables & wild flowers. It shows you how to tackle weeds, pests & other problems, how to attract & identify birds & butterflies, & also how to avoid becoming one of the 400, 000 garden casualties which occur every year. It's not only for organic gardeners
- it is for everyone who wants an up-to-date general gardening guide with the environment in mind. There is information on safety as well as sowing, on birds & butterflies as well as beans
- Dr Hessayon


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The Green Heart of the Netherlands: Utrecht
- Rotterdam Cycling Guide in a series of A5 size, paperback DUTCH LANGUAGE cycling
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David Frenkiel & Luise Vindahl Andersen are the new faces of exciting vegetarian food. Their Green Kitchen Stories blog has a cult following & inspires people around the world to cook super-tasty, healthy vegetarian recipes using only natural ingredients. In The Green Kitchen they will delight meat-eaters & non meat-eaters alike by sharing over 80 of their favourite recipes, which can be enjoyed by the whole family. Using everyday staples from their pantry & combining them with in-season produce, David & Luise tell the stories from their kitchen, & show how easy it is to create nourishing, well-balanced dishes on a daily basis. Whip up some Spinach muffins for breakfast, Warm faro salad for lunch, & Vegetable lasagne with lemon ricotta for a supper to share with friends. Have your cake & eat it too with Frozen pink cheesecake, Cherry & blueberry crumble, Licorice ice cream & more. As well as large dishes, they have an array of soups, salads, juices, small bites & picnic food that are uncomplicated to make but are bold in flavour & will have you wanting more. Start your love-affair with vegetables today with The Green Kitchen. Featuring stylish photographs throughout, this stunning book will show you how easy it is to cook delicious, sumptuous foods that taste great & are good for the body & the soul. ...

This title was shortlisted for the 2015 Costa Novel Award. It is longlisted for the 2015 Man Booker Prize. A darkly glinting novel set on Ireland`s Atlantic coast, The Green Road is a story of fracture & family, selfishness & compassion
- a book about the gaps in the human heart & how we learn to fill them. The children of Rosaleen Madigan leave the west of Ireland for lives they never could have imagined in Dublin, New York & various third-world towns. In her early old age their difficult, wonderful mother announces that she`s decided to sell the house & divide the proceeds. Her adult children come back for a last Christmas, with the feeling that their childhoods are being erased, their personal history bought & sold. Anne Enright is addicted to the truth of things. Sentence by sentence, there are few writers alive who can invest the language with such torque & gleam, such wit & longing
- who can write dialogue that speaks itself aloud, who can show us the million splinters of her characters` lives then pull them back up together again, into a perfect glass.

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Hugh Thomson takes a 400-mile journey across England from coast to coast
- one that takes in ancient landscapes, abandoned tracks
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There are two main parts to this book, the first part is written for the conventional holidaymaker & outlines various steps you can take to minimise environmental damage & social disruption during your stay. The second part deals with more proactive holidays, these vary from wildlife watching to working as a conservation volunteer.

Includes:: details of various projects that have won awards as part of the Tourism for Tomorrow scheme, run by British Airways.

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The Greenwood Guide to South Africa is the only guide to small (1-20 rooms), good-value, intimate, interesting & unusual, ...

A small, early French map of this chain of islands from Grenada to St Lucia. Islands are named & hills are represented pictorially. Latitude & longitude scales are drawn along the west & north edges. Reproduced on heavyweight, parchment effect paper, with a generous border area. Paper

Size: 21.2 x 28.7 cm (8 3/8 x 11 3/8 inches) Map

Size: 15.7 x 21.7 cm (6 1/8 x 8 1/2 inches)



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While most of us just dream of packing up & heading off into the sunset, experienced travellers John & Jane Richardson pulled on their rucksacks & lived the dream during a life-changing eight months exploring America, Australia & Malaysia. This is not a hurried dash from country to country, John & Jane are ` Grey Nomads`, mature travellers wanting to shop, cook & understand the people & communities they interact with during their journeys. Keen to use as many forms of transport as possible, they undertook two great train adventures; a memorable twenty three hours on the Californian Zephyr across America & the fascinating jungle railway through the centre of Malaysia to the Islamic state of Kelantan on the border with Thail&. From encounters with bears & wolves in Yellowstone Park, to Queensland`s worst ever floods
- they take the time to understand the people they met & the places they`ve visited. Full of stories, sometimes amusing, sometimes serious, The Grey Nomads is an enchanting travelogue of life on the road for two mature travellers.
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Is keeping a secret from a spouse always an act of infidelity? & what cost does such a secret exact on a family? The Ryries have suffered a loss: the death of a baby just fifty-seven hours after his birth. Without words to express their grief, the parents, John & Ricky, try to return to their previous lives. Struggling to regain a semblance of normalcy for themselves & for their two older children, they find themselves pretending not only that little has changed, but that their marriage, their family, have always been intact. Yet in the aftermath of the baby's death, long-suppressed uncertainties about their relationship come roiling to the surface. A dreadful secret emerges with reverberations that reach far into their past & threaten their future. The couple's children, ten-year-old Biscuit & thirteen-year-old Paul, responding to the unnamed tensions around them, begin to act out in exquisitely
- perhaps courageously
- idiosyncratic ways. But as the four family members scatter into private, isolating grief, an unexpected visitor arrives, & they all find themselves growing more alert to the sadness & burdens of others
- to the grief that is part of every human life but that also carries within it the power to draw us together. Moving, psychologically acute & gorgeously written, The Grief of Others asks how we balance personal autonomy with the intimacy of relationships, how we balance private decisions with the obligations of belonging to a family, & how we take measure of our own sorrows in a world rife with suffering. This novel shows how one family, by finally allowing itself to experience the shared quality of grief, is able to rekindle tenderness & hope.


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