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75302 GARDENER COOK by Christopher Lloyd ‘Growing one’s own food is tremendously rewarding, the produce being… so much tastier than anything on the market’, so says the author of this gardening- book-with-a-difference. He should know, famous as he is for his unrivalled reputation as gardener, plantsman and gardening writer.


Here, he shows readers how to grow the very best varieties of fruit, vegetables, salad plants and herbs, and also how to cook them, passing on over 100 of his favourite recipes. His garden abounds in figs, quince and medlars, globe artichokes, seakale and kale, sorrel, orach, salsify and purslane, Jerusalem artichokes, celeriac and shallots, chervil, dill, lovage and elderflower - to name but a few - and his recipes sound as delicious as the names of his crops. If you yearn for something a bit different, do try his Compôte of Rhubarb Banana and Rum, his Carrot and Celeriac Au Gratin, his Brill With Vermouth or his exotic Danish Pudding. 255 pages with stunning colour photos by a photographer who first revealed his skill in Derek Jarman’s Garden. £19.99 NOW £7


75554 WATER IN THE


GARDEN by Andi Clevely A calm, reflective pool is instantly inviting to sit beside for a quiet interlude in the day. Throughout the Islamic Empire water was a precious commodity but was often ducted into shaded patios and courtyards, stored in pools or driven


through fountains to cool the air. Today we are used to water literally being available on tap and creating features that can calm or beguile with their beauty and playfulness is the subject of this unusual book. It looks at adding organic matter such as compost and manure, using waste household water, creating a pond to swim in before looking at various styles and inspirations, designs, calculating size, oriental design, wildlife, maintenance, estimating quantities, ponds and containers, lighting, power and pumps and all manner of beautiful pebbles, adjusting speed, fountains, plants for a bamboo water feature and more. Glossy colour Frances Lincoln publication, 112pp. £9.99 NOW £4


75578 A GARDENER’S LIFE by Dowager Marchioness of Salisbury


Lady Salisbury has been a gardener since she was a child in the 1930s. As Chatelaine first of Cranborne Manor and then of Hatfield House, she revived two of the great historic gardens of England. As a professional garden designer she has created gardens for clients ranging from the Prince of Wales at


Highgrove to the New York Botanical Garden. Renowned for her scholarship and her design skill, she has led the way by gardening organically from 1948. Now well into her eighties, she continues to tend her gardens in Provence and has also made a roof garden for her house in Chelsea and designs gardens for clients in England, Ireland, Italy and the US. They include White Birch Farm in Connecticut with plantings of white- trunked birches over lakes, Jess Koons’s Puppy sitting on a low hill where a maze of iron pipes containing an irrigation system keeps the design evergreen in winter and in full bloom in spring and summer, limestone flag paths, lavender and topiary, eight squares filled with flowering plants and all the proposals, designs, line art and plans together with colour photographs of the garden in all its glory. Then we can enjoy each site including Castle Town Cox in County Kilkenny, Newbridge House in Dublin, the walled garden at Chateau de St Clou Provence, many photographs of Highgrove and the Manor House, and Cranborne Dorset where the earliest plans for these gardens were made by John Tradescant. Spectacular colour photographs throughout this very large Frances Lincoln publication, 208pp. £35 NOW £7


74532 TULIPS by Liz Dobbs


70 tulips from a private Dutch collection are showcased. We think original tulips came from Turkey. Dry bulbs travel well so it didn’t take long before illustrated books showed potential customers what tulips could look like and Amsterdam as a thriving port became the trading centre. A craze for tulips broke out in England in the 17th century. Bizarre meant the bloom was yellow with a pattern of any colour. Byloemen was a white tulip with stripes of black or purple. Rose was a white bloom with red or pink markings and today we use ‘feathered’ to describe colours shading in from the edge of the petals while a ‘flame’ is the markings that run from the top of the petals towards the base. 224 page paperback, classification checklist. £7.99 NOW £2.50


74657 WINDOW BOX ALLOTMENT


by Penelope Bennett Penelope Bennett has a 16-foot roof garden at her London flat, and the range of her produce is impressive. Even during January she is cultivating 11 species, with the prospect of strawberries, tomatoes, lettuce and aubergines later in the year. Almost everyone


can have a miniature allotment, and window boxes and hanging baskets are ideal containers for herbs and small fruits. January is when the new potatoes are ready for harvesting, parsley and peas get going in February, and the author throws in a quick bread recipe for good measure. Bennett takes you in chatty style through the four seasons of produce, including some mouthwatering recipes for Alpine Strawberry Jersey Ice Cream, Jerusalem Artichoke Salad and Risotto Milanese. 176pp, decorations, stockists, seed diary. £16.99 NOW £5


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Think of what our Nation stands for, Books from Boots’ and country lanes, Free speech, free passes, class distinction, Democracy and proper drains.


- Sir John Betjeman


75556 PICTURE PERFECT ENGLISH VILLAGES by James Bentley


The richness and diversity of the English village are recorded in this spectacular celebration. Overlooking harbours like Mevagissey in Cornwall, through picturesque villages with Tudor cottages near Lacock Abbey in the


West Country, old inns, castle ruins, quintessential thatched cottages, Norman churches, medieval stone manor houses in Buckinghamshire, traditional front gardens and the duck pond at Aldbury in Hertfordshire, village churches and their mahogany interiors, lych- gates, monuments, streams and rivers as we tour the honey-coloured cottages in the peaceful Cotswolds, sweep over eaves and windows in the villages of Hampshire, half-timbering flint and limestone give Suffolk hamlets their characteristic appearance, while limestone, sandstone and millstone grit lend a darker look to those of Yorkshire, Durham and Northumberland. A very glossy Thames & Hudson large 208 page softback with 285 spectacularly appealing colour photographs.


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75130 GARDEN PROBLEM SOLVER by Rosemary Ward


As the name suggests, this is your one-stop reference to troubleshooting and re-establishing healthy growing conditions in your garden, published in association with the RHS. By choosing the right plants for your garden means they are less likely to succumb to disease and be better equipped to fight it if it occurs, and the clever gardener will also make use of “garden friends” to keep down pest species. The book provides a wealth of remedies which include cultural, organic and chemical techniques and controls. Tackles problems with seed- raised plants, bulbs, lawns, herbaceous plants, trees, shrubs, fruit and vegetables, it even deals with the perennial bugbear of weeds and weeding! Exquisite colour drawings and photos, 192pp. $19.99 NOW £5


74278 ADAM THE GARDENER: A Pictorial Guide to Each Week’s Work


by Cyril Cowell and Morley Adams In the 1940s, Adam The Gardener was a national treasure. Each week, in the Sunday Express, he advised gardeners exactly what to plant and how. In this nostalgic book, the weekly world of the peerless Adam has been brought back to life for today’s keen gardener, who will be just as readily captivated by his reliability and peerless knowledge. As well as techniques - pruning and potting, forcing and grafting - and planting instructions for an impressive range of flowers, fruits and vegetables, readers will also learn how to plan a new garden, what gadgets they will need, including an earwig trap, and all about colour harmony in the garden. 144 pages, line drawings. £10 NOW £3.75


74662 FOLIAGE PLANTS by Christopher Lloyd


From his birth in 1921 to the day he died in 2006, Christopher Lloyd lived at Great Dixter in Sussex, where he developed one of Britain’s greatest gardens. He was the author of a host of classic books, including The Well- Tempered Garden and The Adventurous Gardener as well as the book under review here. He contributed 42 years’ worth of regular weekly articles to Country Life and was gardening correspondent of the Guardian. He has an unrivalled reputation as a plantsman, gardening writer and, above all ‘a wonderfully creative, free- spirited gardener’. He teaches readers all about those plants that are worth growing for their foliage as well as their flowers, how to use them in the garden, and what effect they will achieve in different positions, from the shady border to the sunny bed. 224 paperback pages, diagrams, list of nurseries. £12.99 NOW £5


74984 BOB’S BASICS PRUNING, TRAINING


AND TIDYING by Bob Flowerdew Sub-titled How to Prune and Trim, Types of Plants to Prune, Ornamental Pruning, Training Vines and Trees, Discarding Waste. For over 30 years, Bob has gardened organically. He is a regular panellist on the BBC Radio’s Gardener’s Question Time. Bob offers the simplest, most effective pruning basics, and explains how to get maximum results without obsessing about the growing pattern of every plant. He just takes gardeners through the different types of trimming, that is, how to be sure you are making the right cut for a specific plant, and the techniques for building the right supports and the most eco-friendly ways to remove pruning waste. 112 pages, gorgeous colour photos. $14.95 NOW £5


74107 ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY: Growing Fruit by Harry Baker


There are sections on blackberries, black, red and white currants and gooseberries, followed by plants that may be grown in greenhouses such as melons and vines. Apples and pears have 14 sections, with advice on how to establish a good shape and vigorous growth, together with information about restricted forms such as espaliers and dwarf pyramids. Cherries, figs, peaches, apricots, quinces and other exotic fruits are covered in the final section of the book. 191pp, paperback, diagrams and drawings.


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75670 COAL by Robin Thornes


Britain’s coal industry is a thing of the past but throughout the coal- producing regions in the North and Midlands there are superb architectural monuments to the glory days of the industry. Beautifully illustrated with 120 black and white photographs, this monograph from the Royal


Commission on the Historical Monuments of England reveals some splendours of our heritage. An overview of typical colliery buildings in Yorkshire, Tyneside and the West Midlands is followed by a more detailed look at the Architecture of the Pit, revealing an astonishing variety of designs in a symbiosis of landscape and technology. The pumping house at Salthaven, Cumbria, is a gaunt ruin in bleak moorland, while the Newcomen Pump House at Elsecar Main Colliery, South Yorkshire, is the oldest of its kind in England and beautifully preserved. The Cappel Fan House at Ashington, Northumberland, now houses a mining museum, and the arcaded heapstead and headgear of no 1 shaft, Bentley Colliery, South Yorkshire, is maintained as an early example of a reinforced concrete structure. Winding houses, pit-head baths and coke houses add to the variety. A chapter on The Mining Community includes churches such as St Paulinus, Ollerton, in Nottinghamshire and the superb Art Deco Miners’ Welfare Institute at Kibblesworth, Durham. A final section on transport includes some fine canals and bridges. 146pp, paperback, 120 photos. £14.95 NOW £4.50


75217 HENLEY-ON-THAMES THEN AND NOW IN COLOUR by John Pilling


Illustrating the changing face of this popular town, and providing a fascinating insight into its history, an Oxfordshire historian and a professional photographer have curated this stunning selection of archive images and modern photos. Henley-on-Thames is known around


the world for its famous Royal Regatta, and today is a picturesque centre for the fashionable and successful. But this was not always the case. It was once a thriving river port, but the railway boom of the 1840s took Henley’s traditional trade with it, and the town’s once beautiful buildings gradually fell into disrepair. Henley had to find a new source of prosperity and, in 1851, Prince Albert’s patronage of the Henley annual regatta was just what it needed. Here, its affectionate documenters do it proud. 95 pages with colour plates. £12.99 NOW £6


74898 LATE EXTRA!:


Hackney in the News by David Mander


Here David Mander, Borough Archivist for Hackney, paints a vivid picture of life in Hackney over the past 250 years as it was reported and recorded in local newspapers and, prior to their founding, from national publications. Arranged thematically it looks at


subjects such as housing, health, welfare, local government, education and schools, transport, law and order, wartime, religion, race issues, politics, social attitudes and entertainment through a wide range of publications. The newspapers themselves are looked at in detail too; the editors, journalists, proprietors and the way each one went about its reporting. With reports of duels, bull baiting, elopements, sudden deaths, highwaymen, “balloon foolery”, pageants, boxing and petty crime all featuring prominently. Police and court reports, violence and accidents are part of the story, but so too are hospitals, business, social occasions and the cinema. 150 b/w illus. 124pp softback. £10.99 NOW £4.25


74902 POPLAR MEMORIES by John Hector


Much has already been written about the East End of London but the 85-year-old author of these vivid recollections of a Cockney area before and during WWII brings to his narrative a happy simplicity that is totally endearing. These were the halcyon days of ‘talking pictures’ and pavement buskers, Saturday night knees-ups round the


piano, eel and pie stalls, chimneysweeps, Clarnico’s toffees and Lloyd Loom furniture, and a little shop called Woolworth’s selling ‘nothing over sixpence’. John Hector was disabled by infantile paralysis but survived extreme poverty, panel doctors, dockers’ riots and Hitler’s Luftwaffe. He never lost his unshakeable belief in the ordinary people of Poplar. 121 pages, archive photos. £14.99 NOW £4.75


75098 LONDON OBSERVED: A Polish


Philosopher at Large, 1820-24 by Krystyn Lach-Szyrma


The earliest description of British society to be written in Polish (translated here). The philosopher and writer Krystyn Lach-Szyrma came to Britain in the early 19th century as tutor to two Polish princes. Over a period of 18 months in London they visited prisons, hospitals and factories as well as art galleries and museums, and were entertained by people of the caliber of Elizabeth Fry and Robert Owen. They familiarised themselves with the Houses of Parliament, the Stock Exchange and Westminster Abbey, but were also intrigued by London’s inns and theatres. They analysed the class system and problems of law and order, and pondered such mysteries as the origins of the term ‘Cockney’ and the nature of English breakfasts. With insatiable curiosity and good humour, in perceptive and readable style, the philosopher recorded their impressions of London and Londoners. 13.9 x 21.6cm, 332 paperback pages illustrated in b/w. First edition, 2009. £12.99 NOW £5


65471 SWINDON: The


Legacy of a Railway Town by John Cattell and Keith Falconer


In the pioneering days of early Victorian railway engineering, Gooch and Brunel created a sizeable engine house and works to the north of Swindon. The Great Western Railway became by far the largest employer in the region


and for more than a century the fortunes of the town were inseparably linked with the development of the railway. In 1984, due to rationalisation within British Rail Engineering, many of the works buildings were under threat. A photographic record was begun but their significance for railway history was such that a more detailed study was felt to be justified. This remarkable book, now reissued in paperback, is the result of that project. Tracing the architectural history of the railway engineering works and the associated railway village, it provides a fascinating guide to one of Britain’s finest monuments to the early days of the railway age. 181 large format paperback pages with maps, illustrations and plans in colour and b/w. £40 NOW £6.50


71802 LOST LONDON by Richard Guard


London has been inhabited for 2,000 years. Here are buried rivers, demolished landmarks, long- shut tube stations, overgrown cemeteries, underground Roman streets, abandoned bunkers and tunnels, demolished churches and long-defunct pleasures - places like the Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens. Discover masquerades at Ranelagh Gardens, Chelsea, decapitated


heads displayed on London Bridge, the illicit Horn Fair at Charlton, marriages at Fleet, Chippendale’s workshop at Covent Garden, the Chelsea Bun House, Bartholomew Fair and the first art book shop on the Strand. Woodcuts, 192pp. £9.99 NOW £5


75121 TERRIBLY ENGLISH by Rupert Besley Custard, cricket, Shakespeare, fog, dogs, mangold hurling, marmite, spadgewhistles - cartoonist Besley runs a fond eye over all that is impenetrable about England. Catch up on customs, clothes, class and all things English from tourist hotspots to homely truths, national foibles, from Ackenthwaite and Barfs in Cumbria to Bottoms and Splatt in Cornwall. A county by county gazetteer, poetry, first steps in horsemanship, Christmas in Merrie England, recipe corner, house and gardens and what’s eaten where like Dorset knobs to Cumberland sausage, here is all manner of social questions and even an English Citizenship Test. Colour cartoons, 137pp in paperback.


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75167 THE FABER BOOK OF LONDON edited by A.N. Wilson


What sets London apart from the other great capital cities of the world is that it has evolved in a gloriously haphazard manner. So new rubs shoulders with old, the streets, lanes, mews, crescents, roads, squares and courts intersect at delightfully irregular angles and history and tradition are as much an influence as commercial concerns in what “planning” that has gone on. Once the centre of the greatest mercantile empire ever, and today one of the world’s most important financial centres, this splendid, idiosyncratic anthology features the opinions of writers as diverse as Dickens and Joe Orton, Dostoyevsky and Lenin and Boswell and Martin Amis. Here are high life and low life, beggars and politicians, criminals, royals, intellectuals and criminals, and, of course, the buildings and byways, railways and canals, the street level and subterranean. 493 paperback pages. £14.99 NOW £5.50


73824 THE ENGLISH LAKES: A History by Ian Thompson


A strange combination of events saw the Lake District’s popular image transformed in the space of 50 years. The Georgians had developed a fascination with the Alps, but the outbreak of the Napoleonic Wars made travel there impossible. So, our budding mountaineers turned their attentions closer to home, providing the spark for a national and international love affair with the Lakes. Add to this the arrival of the likes of Wordsworth, Coleridge, Southey and De Quincey and their transformation from a region of “horrid mountains” to one of “vales of peace” was complete. Over 20 million people a year visit the Lake District. What is the source of its magnetic attraction and how did it come to exert its spell? As well as the poets, artists, climbers, conservationists and storytellers like Turner, Ruskin, Beatrix Potter and Arthur Ransome have added to our perception of this magical place, and how could we not mention the legend that is Alfred Wainwright. Superb colour photos, paintings, etchings and archive photography. 343pp. $45 NOW £6.50


74504 NARROW DOG TO WIGAN PIER by Terry Darlington


The Narrow Dog series recounts the exploits of Terry and his wife Monica aboard their narrow boat the Phyllis May, together with their two whippets Jim and Jess. Just as Terry is reluctantly wondering whether at age 75 he should pocket his pen and stow his mooring ropes, the Phyllis May is destroyed by a fire. In no time at all the Darlingtons have got themselves a new boat, the PM2, and are planning a round trip up the Trent and Mersey from Stone via Wigan to Tewitsfield, then another foray on the other side of the Pennines via the Aire and Calder and Trent and Mersey Canals. In the process Terry decides to tell his life story, so the journeys are punctuated with flashbacks, from his childhood in Pembroke Dock to a stay in Liverpool’s Adelphi Hotel. Terry sprinkles the text with his own poetry, and his anecdotes include drinking with Roger McGough and the other Liverpool poets. The Huddersfield Narrow is unnavigable, but finally they make it home to a drink by Aston Lock. 352pp, maps, decorations. £14.99 NOW £5


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