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Seven Brief Lessons On Physics House London
£35.00House London showcases 50 of the most stylish homes in the capital today – each with a uniquely ‘London’ feel. From the surprising interiors of humble terraces to extraordinary conversions showcasing the height of luxury.
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The Sustainable City
£30.00London is a city of innovation. In its suburbs, green roofs grow on flats, homes are insulated with cork and light timber structures have been designed to be as beautiful as they are energy efficient; in the centre, striking new offices are retro-fitted over preserved buildings, while communal hubs are creatively built from reclaimed materials. This book looks at the way the capital is responding to the ever-pressing need to build with the environment foremost in mind – talking to the London architects, designers and residents who are creating a city that lives, works and plays sustainably.
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Your Gardening Year 2023
£15.00An easy-to-use, beautifully illustrated book to help you know the key things to do in your garden through 2023.How soon can I sow my sweet peas? When should I prune my clematis? What can I do to add plenty of winter colour to my borders? Is there anything to do in January? Find the answers to all these questions and more with Your Gardening Year 2023 – a book that every gardener should have as they embark on a new year of planting, sowing, pruning, and growing. This easy-to-use gardening guide is packed with essential tasks and top tips for every month of the year, with sections on general garden care, growing fruit and vegetables, and getting the best out of containers. Discover which plants will look their best each month and mark the progression of the seasons with a dedicated note section so you can record your garden successes and make plans for next year. With beautiful illustrations to accompany each month, Your Gardening Year 20
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Extraordinary Interiors
£39.95The latest monograph of award-winning interior designer Suzanne Tucker, who is revered for her personal approach, enduring style, mastery of detail, and passion for architecture and the decorative arts.
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Eat Weeds
£25.00Three generations ago, it was common practice to collect wild food; knowledge of what, where and when to forage was a necessary part of life. But with the advent of supermarket culture, monocultural systems of food production and escalating urbanisation, the knowledge associated with foraging has mostly been lost. However, there is wild food and medicine available to those who know what to look for. In the face of global challenges such as climate change, food security and pandemic, we seek to empower ourselves with the information and skills that bring self-reliance and equip us to care for our families and communities. This book shows how you can engage with wild food sources, reconnect with the stories of our ancestors, and care for local ecologies while transforming your neighbourhood into an edible adventure.
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The Kitchen Garden
£19.99Focusing on plants destined for the dinner plate, ‘The Kitchen Garden’ is an illustrated guide to growing edible plants from sowing to harvesting. Learn when to sow, what to grow and how to make your delicious harvest into a meal. The book features 55 plant profiles ranging from the everyday to unique. Each profile is illustrated and has an easy-to-comprehend table detailing the most important information: when to sow and harvest; growing time; space needed between plants; optimal soil pH; whether the plant will tolerate pots and frost; and their companions and dislikes. A planting chart summarising the most useful information from the plant profiles is also included, along with guidance on the different climate zones and how best to start your kitchen garden. With an emphasis on seasons rather than months, the book is a beautiful and practical gift for a garden enthusiast, whether they live in the northern or southern hemisphere.
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Becoming a Gardener
£40.00To make her new house in Connecticut truly feel like home, Catie Marron decided to create a garden. But while she was familiar with landscape design, she had never grown anything. Marron’s quest to become a gardener, however, was about more than learning the basics about mulch or which plants work best in the shade. She sought something far more elusive: to identify the core qualities and characteristics that make a person a gardener and an understanding of what a garden could mean to her as it had to multitudes of other gardeners over the centuries. In this book, Catie Marron chronicles her transformation into a gardener over the course of 18 months, seeding the details of her experience with rich advice from writers as diverse as Eleanor Perényi and Karel Capek, Penelope Lively and Jamaica Kincaid.
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Let’s Wildflower the World
£16.99Let’s Wildflower the World is an invaluable guide to guerilla gardening, seedbombing and seedswapping, and everything you need to know to fill the world around you with beautiful wild blooms.
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Home With Rue
£27.50From top home design magazine Rue comes an expert guide to creating your ideal space.
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Tools
£18.99This is the text for answering all your tool questions, gaining knowledge before hiring a professional, or simply flipping through just for the joy of learning something new about the objects that shape our world. This guide catalogs more than 700 tools for measuring, cutting, fastening, and shaping – from hammers and saws to wrenches, welders, and drawknives. Throughout these illustrated pages, you’ll learn how to care for each tool so it can last a lifetime, as well as learn intriguing tidbits and fascinating histories of each object along the way.
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A Garden Well Placed
£35.00The story of how Xa Tollemache re-created the garden at Helmingham Hall, in Suffolk – and became a garden designer
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Miss Willmott’s Ghosts
£25.00Ellen Ann Willmott was a remarkable woman whose achievements in horticulture, botany, landscape architecture, photography and more, should have made her one of the most well-known trailblazers of her age. Yet, both posthumously and within her lifetime, she instead became known as a bitter, cantankerous and eccentric miser, and her reputation has been forever stained by the image of her maliciously seeding other people’s gardens with thorns. The beginnings of this prickly myth can be traced back to her conspicuous absence at what should have been the pinnacle of her career: the Royal Horticultural Society’s inaugural Victoria Medal of Honour Award ceremony, at which she was due to be one of only two female recipients. Universally difficult and mean as she has been portrayed ever since. Sandra Lawrence has been granted access to her archives, and with it has uncovered the secrets behind this thorniness.