Bibliophile Books Unit 5 Datapoint, 6 South Crescent, London E16 4TL TEL: 020 74 74 24 74 GARDENING


Of all the wonderful things in the wonderful universe of God, nothing seems to me more surprising than the planting of a seed in the blank earth and the result thereof.


- Celia Thaxter 71405 SUCCESS WITH


SMALL-SPACE GARDENING by Graham Clarke


Hallo, all you frustrated gardeners who fret because you have no large space in which to let your imagination run riot! If all you have is a shady courtyard, a windy balcony, a sun-baked patio, a tiny roof garden or an overflowing


window-box, this tremendously helpful book will help you to make the most of what you have got. Small gardens can be every bit as breathtakingly beautiful as any large plot. What it takes is planning, and the author will help you with that. Here are design basics and instructions on how to measure up and put your plans on paper. Here, too, are clever tricks and tips on how to make your space look bigger by: vertical planting, optical illusions, using colour, perspective, containers, paving and pathways. Here is advice on how to grow fruit and vegetables in confined areas plus an illustrated A-Z directory of plants suited to small-space gardens. You can do it, so get digging straight away. 160 paperback pages with photos in glowing colour, directory of plants for small spaces. £12.99 NOW £5


71346 NO-NONSENSE


VEGETABLE GARDENING: How to Grow Vegetables in Small Gardens


by Christine Walkden Written by The One Show’s resident gardening guru, here is a book for everyone who has always wanted to grow tomatoes or beans or carrots or even potatoes, but has never


known quite where to start. The no-nonsense and down-to-earth Ms Walkden explains everything you need to know from how to prepare the soil to how to get the best crop from a small space. Sowing, watering, feeding, composting, weeding and harvesting are all covered in easy-to-understand language, with plenty of colour photos to help both the beginner and the more experienced gardener to start from scratch. How much better it is to make an improvised seed drill using a broom-handle! Following this jolly gardener’s careful instructions, you will soon be able to cope with legumes, onions, brassicas, root crops, salad leaves, fruiting vegetables, herbs and ‘cucurbits’. No, we did not know either, but we now realise that these are simply courgettes, marrows, pumpkins, squash and outdoor cucumbers and they are all a doddle. 176 softback pages 19.5cm x 25.5cm in close-up colour with glossary. £16.99 NOW £6


69840 HUGH JOHNSON IN THE GARDEN: The Best Garden Diary of Our Time published by the Royal Horticultural Society The world’s most respected writer on wine is almost as well known for his vivid, readable and inspirational writing about gardening. In 1975 he began a monthly diary-cum-blog in ‘The Garden’, the journal of the RHS, under the nom de plume Tradescant. Trad has a huge following. From fashions to foods, drought to dahlias, from Alnwick Castle to Australia and from Wales to the West Indies, here is a series of descriptions to delight any gardener. 286 pages with colour plates. RHS sticker. £14.99 NOW £3


58187 MRS BEETON’S GARDEN MANAGEMENT by Isabella Beeton


Isabella Beeton was born in 1836, the eldest of 21 children, and died at the age of just 28. The subjects covered are soil structures, manures and compost, planning and landscaping, walls and fences, ornamental features, tools, sowing, planting and transplanting. There are chapters on trees, shrubs, flowers, vegetables, herbs and fruit growing; on frames and glasshouses; and finally twelve chapters covering the gardening year. Information, prudence with money and wisdom. 979pp, paperback. ONLY £4


68750 THE GARDEN BOOK by Phaidon Press


Over 500 massive, magnificent garden designs in this splendid tome. It is a comprehensive illustrated survey of 500 of the world’s most influential garden makers, designers, patrons and owners and their gardens. Garden design is a large-scale, time-consuming art form, with relatively few auteurs such as Capability Brown, Kobori Enshu, Gertrude Jekyll and Andre le Nôtre. The tome brings these and many lesser-known but highly deserving garden makers to wider attention and show innovation creativity at its height in Ancient China and Japan, Renaissance Italy, 17th century France and Holland, 18th century Britain and the USA in the 20th century. In A-Z order. Colour photos, 512pp, 10" x 11". First time discounted. £29.95 NOW £14


69373 TREASURY OF GARDEN WRITING by Charles Elliot


Each of the 53 selections is illustrated with a colour reproduction of a print, engraving or watercolour from the RHS’s Lindley Library, acknowledged as the world’s greatest horticultural library. The roll-call of writers here is astounding - Austen, Bacon, Wordsworth, Carroll, Flaubert, Hodgson Burnett, Jekyll, Mitford, Pope, Sackville-West, Sitwell, Synge, Walpole and Wharton to name but a few. 192pp, illus. £13.99 NOW £3


69350 LOW MAINTENANCE GARDENING: A Time-Saving Guide to Trouble-Free Gardening by Andi Clevely


Chapter one encourages us to really get to know our plot and be realistic about its potential, the chapter two examines boundaries, earthworks, hard surfaces, containers and the sensible deployment of water features. Next we look at ornamental gardens. Then comes the productive garden - how to grow fruit, veg and herbs to supplement your larder and get the taste that only comes from home-grown. With hints, tips and shortcuts. Colour photos, 112pp in softback. £9.99 NOW £2.75


GREAT BRITAIN


By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.


- Samuel Johnson 71165 A WALK ALONG THE


WALL by Hunter Davies Subtitled ‘A Journey Along Hadrian’s Wall’, this is a welcome reprint of the 1979 original, with a new introduction pointing out the visitor centre, accommodation, hotels and restaurants for the tourist of today. Originally stretching over the neck of England for over 70 miles, it is one of the most important Roman monuments in Britain, now a World


Heritage Site. Part history, part guidebook and part personal experience, we learn that Hunter Davies grew up at one end of the wall and he portrays the area and its inhabitants as they are today as well as giving us a taste of what life was like in this remote part of Britain 2000 years ago. Includes ink drawings, a diagram of Chester’s Bathhouse, a Mile Castle on the military road and a cross section of the wall including the ditch and the Vallum. Vindolanda, Naworth, Gilsland, Carrawburgh, Carlisle, Great Chester and the Border Walls are all chapter titles. 306pp in paperback, photos. £9.99 NOW £4


71281 TRANSPORT AND INDUSTRIAL HERITAGE:


Cornwall by John Vaughan Mining, quarries, explosives, textile mills, windmills, water-mills, brickworks, china clay, agriculture, flowers, lime kilns, brewing, fishing, canals, shipping and shipwrecks, lighthouses and roads, railways and bridges, viaducts and aircrafts are all covered in this rather special book


about a special place. The County of Cornwall is littered with hundreds of abandoned engine houses which have become synonymous with the great 19th century mining era. It is riddled with industrial and transport architecture from a bygone age, not least the terraces of granite dwellings like those at Carharrack. It is an ancient land with Celtic origins as seen at St. Winnow’s churchyard on the banks of the River Fowey with its beautiful Celtic headstones in a row. Old postcards like landing fish at St Ives, a road sign showing Gwinear Road Station which closed in 1964, the remains of mines and quarries which can today be visited are all photographed and described in detail in this glossy softback. Map references throughout. 192pp in softback. £14.99 NOW £6


71209 PORTRAIT OF BRITAIN: A Stunning Visual


Journey by Michael Leapman Just what it says on the cover - an absolutely stunning visual journey through landscapes, treasures and traditions. Any one who does not end up proud of Britain after even just browsing through this impressive book is very hard to please indeed. It incorporates the very best of Britain’s glorious landscapes, lively cities and rich cultural heritage,


providing for intrepid travellers thousands of ideas for places to visit or, for those who prefer to travel from Land’s End to John O’Groats without leaving home, a visual celebration of all that Britain has to offer. Here are the magnificent medieval castles of Wales, the clans and tartans of Scotland, sleepy Cotswold villages and the nightlife of London’s West End, not to mention spectacular gardens, culinary traditions and reminders of our sporting heritage. Here are cathedrals, castles, national parks, palaces, stately homes, museums and galleries as well as bird’s-eye-view street plans showing places of interest in key town and city centres. A thick 576 pages, extremely lavishly illustrated in colour with over 2,000 specially commissioned photos, illustrations, maps and cutaway 3-D illustrations. £25 NOW £7.50


71181 SHAKESPEARE’S CHURCH: A Parish for the World by Val Horsler, Revd Martin Gorick and Dr Paul Edmondson


Heed the words of Dame Judi Dench, Patron of Friends of Shakespeare’s Church. She writes that this is ‘… a richly illustrated, beautifully designed volume to


treasure...’ and so it is. The Church of Holy Trinity, Stratford-upon-Avon, where Shakespeare was baptised and where he is buried, welcomes over 200,000 visitors per year from all around the world. Within a few years of Shakespeare’s death in 1616, the church had already become a place of literary pilgrimage, and successive vicars had to balance the needs of a parish church with the impact of ever-increasing crowds of sight-seers. In the 21st century it still remains a living, working parish church although it already had a long and vibrant history when Shakespeare knew it, before he left his home town to find fame and fortune in London. The book offers fascinating insights into the world of medieval Warwickshire and the religious upheavals of the Tudor era, as well as the Stratford town life amid which the young Shakespeare grew up. It highlights every aspect of the church itself as a beautiful building in its own right, and teases out the wider themes that its association with the playwright inevitably lends it. A volume for every Shakespeare lover. 160 pages 28cm x 24 cm very lavishly illustrated in colour with glossary and afterword: The Collegiate Church. £25 NOW £8.50


71004 SOUTHERN ENGLAND: Discover Britain’s Historic


Houses by Simon Jenkins The author is a leading writer on the rich heritage of the British Isles. Here is his vision of 83 of the most impressive or interesting dwellings to be seen in Dorset, Hampshire, the Isle of Wight and Wiltshire. From


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majestic Kingston Lacy to Jane Austen’s modest house in Chawton and from the eclectic royal palace of Osborne House to the Palladian Wilton Place, here they are in all their glory. They are all so interestingly described that we are now full of plans to visit them. For instance, Mottisfont was completely new to us but we now know that Rex Whistler created a Gothick-style drawing room there, and that he used trompe l’oeil effects, rendered in grisaille, to simulate columns, plasterwork and ornament details. Apparently, Britain has more historic houses, great and small, than anywhere else in the world and they are open to the public. 191 pages 22cm by 28cm with photos in glorious colour with maps, star ratings and accessibility, list of sources and contact details. ONLY £6.50


71111 AA STREET BY STREET LONDON: Fourth Edition


Extended coverage of the capital, the AA produces Britain’s clearest street mapping in this fourth edition. Includes car parks, one way streets and petrol stations, easy to navigate from page to page design, it is a very large softback format which lies flat easily. Stations,


schools, hospitals, sports centres, places of worship and gardens are all marked and there is an index of featured places as well as the main index. Tube map on the back page and discounted for the first time. 275pp. £7.99 NOW £4


71155 LAKELAND PEAKS by W. A. Poucher


The classic guide for walkers and climbers, now updated and revised and newly reproduced from the original photographs, this photographic guide is the essential companion. 250 stunning black and white photos, many with the route to the summit clearly marked; detailed directions for 140 routes; practical advice on clothing, equipment, mountain navigation


and other safety issues; suggestions on where to find a place to stay; invaluable hints on mountain photography. Pocket sized paperback, a facsimile of the 1960 original so the photographs look rather quaint. Index for easy reference and tracks clearly marked on the photographs sending you towards Ell Crags, High Spy, Great Stoat Fell, Scafell etc at a glance. 448pp. £12.99 NOW £5


71179 PORTRAIT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER


by Professor Brian Pullan Created by Act of Parliament in 2004, the University of Manchester Mark III traces its ancestry to three establishments - the Mechanics’ Institution of 1924, designed to ‘instruct the working classes in the


principles of the arts they practise’, the Medical School of Thomas Turner, and the College of Arts and Sciences founded in 1851 by John Owens, an austere Manchester merchant. From 1903-39 giants such as Rutherford and Bragg laid the foundations of modern science here. The Arts were equally distinguished by the work of the likes of Samuel Alexander and Lewis Namier. It was here that the world’s first stored-programme computer was invented and radio astronomy was developed at Jodrell Bank. The University of Manchester has now entered a new and exciting phase as a world-class research institution. 208 large pages with over 200 illus in colour, with archive b/w photos and list of Nobel Laureates. £45 NOW £15


71278 SHROPSHIRE VILLAGES


by the WI and Bill Meadows Upton Cressett, Selattyn, Pulverbatch, Pant, Mukston, Maesbrook, Llanyblodwel, Highley and Eaton Constantine are among the 100 villages which still retain their character and charm and are a source of pride and delight to both local people and visitors. Here the text is written by local members of


Shropshire’s Women’s Institutes and their entries record the history, architecture, atmosphere, anecdotes, people and events which have made each village different from its neighbours. Complementing the text are 50 colour photos by the well known landscape photographer Bill Meadows showing Shropshire at its best in all the seasons. 96 glossy pages in softback. £8.95 NOW £3


70667 AN ENGLISH COUNTRYSIDE


EXPLORED: The Land of Lettice Sweetapple by Peter Fowler and Ian Blackwell Around 1800, Lettice Sweetapple lived in West Overton, Wiltshire, between Avebury and Marlborough. Her house looked across the river Kennet to the chalk downs and southwards to a part of Savernake Forest. She represents hundreds of thousands of largely anonymous people whose lives were shaped by this changing landscape. Peter Fowler and his team of archaeologists, historians and scientists have investigated the landscape of the parishes of West Overton and Fyfield over 39 years, not merely as local history, but as a microcosm of the English countryside. They have made use of fieldwork, aerial photography, excavation, old maps and documents, geophysics and numerous analytical techniques on everything from standing buildings to flecks of charcoal. 160 large page paperback. Maps and photos.


£14.99 NOW £5


70789 CHELSEA CHICKS by Maria Perry From Catherine Parr and the aftermath of a royal sex scandal of epic proportions, to a runaway rabbit at the Chelsea Flower Show, Maria Perry guides us skilfully through 500 years of this quintessentially Bohemian quarter of London. Chelsea Chicks never grow old. At 75, faces unlined, they still pop in from the King’s Road in mock-croc leggings and thigh high boots, eager to sample the latest lip gloss. Despite a growing crowd of celebrities, Chelsea remains a family place devoted to Youth and Art. Here are the sex goddesses, great gardeners, notorious addresses, naughty antics, great decorators, love among the artists and name dropping galore. 120pp with cartoons. £9.99 NOW £2.50


www.bibliophilebooks.com 13 ALFRED WAINWRIGHT


Alfred Wainwright compiled his famous Pictorial Guides to the Lakeland Fells between 1952 and 1966 and for this labour of love was awarded the MBE. He died in January 1991 at the age of 84.


Also available to complete the collection, 71090 Lakeland Sketchbook: Volume One £6 71091 Lakeland Sketchbook: Volume Two £6.


71153 HIGH PLACES: Leaves from a Lakeland Notebook by A. Harry Griffin


Better known as Harry Griffin, and for 50 years the Guardian’s country diarist, A. H. Griffin wrote the weekly feature for the Lancashire Evening Post for almost 30 years called Leaves from a Lakeland Notebook. This book combines a selection from


around 1500 of these articles with illustrations from the Lakeland Sketchbooks by Alfred Wainwright. Griffin writes of days spent in the mountains clambering on Pillar Rock, skating on Tarn Hows at Christmas, swimming in tarns after a day of rock climbing, plus the history of the Lake District from the Romans who built a road over the Fells to the pioneering climbs on Scafell Crag and Napes Needle. And here too are the many characters he knew like Owd Joe, a Wasdale shepherd, Millican Dalton, the eccentric Professor of Adventure, and cake-baking farmers who won all the prizes at a Lakeland show. Griffin knew Wainwright whom he met in the late 1940s and for years Wainwright caught a bus to the fells from outside Griffin’s home. Each respected the other’s work and our book is an expression of their mutual passion. 224pp with beautiful line art throughout and covering May 1947 to December 1975 with the Final Article. £12.99 NOW £5.50


71154 IN THE FOOTPRINTS OF WAINWRIGHT by Derry Brabbs


Regarded as one of England’s finest photographers within the sphere of heritage and landscapes with over 20 illustrated books to his credit, Derry Brabbs published seven books with Wainwright. He had spent the best part of a


decade taking the photographs for the large-format illustrated walking guides which Alfred Wainwright wrote 1984-1992, when his legendary series of Pictorial Guides to the Lakeland Fells was complete. This is a fascinating account of Derry’s training and adventures including his first meeting with Wainwright and the joys, trials and tribulations of working on projects with a great fellwalker. Mr Wainwright’s style is perfectly matched with Brabbs’s lingeringly evocative camera and all who love the Fells and the Lake District can enjoy 300 spectacular colour photographs including famous routes such as the Coast to Coast Walk, and the Pennine Way, and over mountain passes on a Highland odyssey. Plus a wealth of practical advice for the would-be outdoor photographer and an unbeatable insight into Wainwright’s unique character. 288pp in very large softback, glossy paper. £16.99 NOW £7.50


71156 LAKELAND SKETCHBOOK: Volume Three by Alfred Wainwright


Wainwright’s name is synonymous with the landscape of the Lakes and here is a third collection of 80 ink drawings of scenes by the author of ‘A Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells’. Etched with trees, here is the beautiful Rydal Water occupying the valley of the Rothy between Loughrigg Fell and Nab Scar. Wainwright says ‘You either love Wastwater or are repelled by it.’ It is a deep and sinister lake which can be frightening and beautiful - ‘a black pit in a storm.’ Here are the Coniston Fells, the Old Gate House, Cartmel, Bridgehouse, Ambleside and a quaint structure spanning Stock Gill which was originally a summer house in a private garden. For each there is a tiny map explaining where to find Dove Cottage at Grasmere,


Hawkshead Church and all 80 sites. £15.99 NOW £6


71157 LAKELAND SKETCHBOOK: Volume Four


by Alfred Wainwright


Each of the 80 stunning pen and ink drawings is accompanied by a simple map designed to identify the location of the viewpoint in relation to its surroundings. In order of their appearance the drawings include Whiteless Pike and Rannerdale Knotts, Pike o’Stickle, Matson Ground, Windermere, the head of Wastwater, Crinkle Crag, Coppermine Valley Coniston, Loft Crag, Gosforth Cross, Stonethwaite, Bobbin works, Stott Park, the Vale of Grasmere and nearly 80 other rocky, rural Lakeland scenes, all beautifully evoked in these exquisitely detailed ink drawings. £15.99 NOW £6


71158 LAKELAND SKETCHBOOK: Volume Five by Alfred Wainwright


The fifth and final volume in this collection of ink drawings, this one also presents 80 fine masterpieces from the ink pen of Alfred Wainwright. Here is Wray Castle, a familiar sight to all those who sail the lengths of Windermere with its battlemented towers rising above the trees near the water’s edge, the classic harmony of Ashness Bridge, Red Screes Mountain, Low Dam and High Dam Reservoirs, Sheffield Pike, Upper Eskdale, the trim little village of Clappersgate, the high farmstead of Swindale Head and the Hollow of Levers Water are each illustrated with a tiny map showing its location, all hand drawn and captioned in Wainwright’s own hand. 80 pen and ink drawings. £15.99 NOW £6


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