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NEW TITLE Husbandry making gardens with mr b ISABEL BANNERMAN ‘Making a garden together, in which to live and work, through thick and thin, fair and foul, is what we like to do best. Everything else is a sideshow. Since spring 2019 Garden designer ISABEL BANNERMAN and her Julian and I have been making a garden at Ashington husband, Julian, have won Manor Farm, a garden that we think of as our last Gold Medals at Chelsea and principal private escapade, but you never know . . .’ designed gardens for a wide range of people, including HRH The Prince of Wales Isabel and Julian Bannerman have made scores of lauded and many clients from the gardens for a host of famous clients, and three special, worlds of fashion and film. They also designed the British much-loved gardens of their own surrounding the 9/11 Memorial Garden in New houses which they have restored and lived in since they York. Isabel is the author of married, starting at The Ivy, Chippenham, in 1982; Landscape Of Dreams (2016), Scent Magic (2019), and the then Hanham Court, Bristol, in 1993; and Trematon author/editor of The Star-Nosed Castle, Cornwall, in 2012. Now as they embark on a new Mole (2021), all published by adventure, creating a garden at their Elizabethan manor Pimpernel Press. house in Somerset, Isabel reflects on the garden they are making and the others they have made as a couple, about the ‘thousand tiny decisions about which we fight like hooting chimpanzees’ and, especially, the fundamentals of what Julian, Mr B, thinks about the key things that go into making a garden for living in – a jumble of eating, drinking and sitting places, fruit cages, vegetable and cutting gardens, pelargoniums in giant pots, rose arches, tools and sheds, fences, formality and topiary, pools and meadows, and not least the importance of one's peripheral vision of how the garden joins on to the landscape. PUBL ICAT ION September 2022 SPECIFICAT IONS Hardback, £14.99 216 x 135mm, 144 pages 978-1-914902-94-9 Two b/w plate sections 1
NEW TITLE The Indoor Garden get started no matter how small your space JADE MURRAY ‘Just shows how important plants are to all our lives.’ Monty Don The winner of the 2021 ‘My Chelsea Garden’ Judges’ Choice Gold Medal Award shows you how to create your Having studied Art & Design own indoor garden – even if space is tight and you have no and Photography at William Morris Academy, JADE prior experience of plants at all. MURR AY began nurturing her creative flair by starting User-friendly and highly accessible, this is a practical, her own indoor garden. In 2021 she entered the RHS fully illustrated and inspiring guide to indoor gardening ‘My Chelsea Garden’ virtual by self-taught plant enthusiast Jade Murray. Here you will competition (in partnership find invaluable tips and advice for choosing, caring for and with BBC’s The One Show) and wowed the judges, who propagating houseplants. Having limited space is no barrier were so impressed by her to indoor gardening. Many of these plants are perfect for achievements they awarded her small homes and space-saving ideas abound – e.g. vertical the Judges’ Gold Medal. Jade lives in Queen's Park, London arrangements – whether hanging in a basket, bunched on a with her three children – shelf, on a window sill or grouped on a ladder. who find plants as rewarding as she does. Throughout the book you will find: • Advice on where to best position plants in the home • Ideas for how to display them to best advantage, including vertical arrangements • Tips on soil mix, watering, feeding and trouble-shooting • Step-by-step photographs for plant propagation • An at-a-glance summary of Jade’s ‘golden rules’ for success PUB LIC ATIO N Jade firmly believes that plants can be restorative and October 2022 therapeutic – a positive asset in any home or office. Her S PE C IFIC ATIO N S advice and enthusiasm shine on every page of this book – Hardback, £20.00 as do her glorious photographs. 230 x 170mm, 144 pages 978-1-914902-97-0 180 colour photographs 2
NEW TITLE Life, Death and Decay the science of compost JULIAN DOBERSKI Reveals the how and the why of the compost heap and the important role it plays in the garden. JULIAN DOBERSKI has Life Death & Decay – The Science of Compost takes you on degrees in Zoology (BSc a journey into the underworld of composting. Doberski Southampton), Forestry (MSc Oxford) and a PhD in biological explains the science of what goes on but also promotes control of insects using fungi interest in the living organisms who provide the ‘hard (Cambridge). He has thirty graft’ of transforming waste organic matter. It can be years of teaching experience at Anglia Ruskin University in hard to envisage the hundreds, thousands or millions of Cambridge (and its predecessor different organisms involved but this book reveals the institutions) where he was a secrets of this hidden world Principal Lecturer in Ecology. He has jointly published a Gardeners are familiar with the magic of compost and resource pack for A level it is easy to see what goes in – organic waste – and what ecology students and a range comes out – wonderful, friable and fertile compost – but of scientific research and science in education papers. what magic causes that to happen? Doberski explains He is currently retired and lives what kind of ‘mysterious’ and complex chemical, physical in Cambridgeshire. and biological processes contribute to make composting effective. He covers the structural nature of decaying and dead plant material, the micro-organisms and invertebrates contributing to decomposition, and the combination of chemical, physical and biological factors which determine rates of decay. By explaining the science of what goes on in composting Doberski provides pointers to gardeners for getting composting right. PU B LIC ATIO N August 2022 S P E C IFIC ATIO N S Paperback, £9.99 198 x 129mm, 112 pages 978-1-914902-93-2 B/w illustrations 4
NEW TITLE Gardening in a Changing World plants, people and the climate crisis DARRYL MOORE FRSA ‘The depth of research and knowledge that is brought together here is quite astounding, and there is no let-up from start to finish in the skill with which this often complex information is communicated.’ DARRYL MOORE FRSA is an award-winning garden and Nigel Dunnett landscape designer and writer focusing on contemporary Our planet, the Earth, is under threat, with potentially garden and landscape design and planting. He has been a catastrophic consequences for ourselves and the other feature writer for Garden Design lifeforms it sustains. Journal for the past 15 years Yet Nature itself can still rescue us, with plants playing and has also been published in The Guardian, Homes & a pivotal role, in the countryside – and everywhere. Gardens, The English Garden, Pro In gardens and parks, plants are the mainstay of our Landscaper, The Garden and RSA relationship with the natural world, and we celebrate them Journal. He is a member of the Garden Media Guild and was for the pleasures they bring. However, that can be part of Trade Journalist of the Year in the problem: too often we value plants for their aesthetic 2016. He is a former member of qualities rather than for the vital role they play in the GDJ Editorial Panel and is also a published garden photographer. ecology of the Earth. He is Director and co-founder of In Gardening in a Changing World Darryl Moore explores the innovative urban landscape how gardens can be better for human beings and all the organisation Cityscapes, realizing creative approaches other lifeforms that inhabit them. Recent developments to greening city spaces through in horticulture and plant science show us that we need novel design ideas that ensure to rethink our attitude to plants beyond purely aesthetic ecological, economic and social sustainability. He lives in London. concerns, and to adopt more holistic approaches to how we design, inhabit and enjoy our gardens. He looks at the history of garden design, to show how we got to where PUBL ICAT ION we are today, and recommends ways of changing to new October 2022 principles of sustainable ecological horticulture. SPECIFICAT IONS This challenging and important new book will be Hardback, £20 essential reading for professionals and students of 234 x 153mm, 240 pages horticulture and garden and landscape design, as well 978-1-910258-28-6 as for anyone interested in making gardens part of the Two 8-page colour solution to the future of life on Earth. plate sections 5
NEW TITLE London Chamber Orchestra 101 years of transformation JESSICA DUCHEN JESSICA DUCHEN is WITH A FOREWORD BY a music critic, author and HRH THE DUCHESS OF CORNWALL librettist. Following twelve years with the Independent, she is a contributor to publications that have included The London Chamber Orchestra is the longest- the I Newspaper, The Sunday standing professional chamber orchestra in Britain. Times and BBC Music Magazine. Encompassing over a century of music, its roller Her librettos include extensive work with composer Roxanna coaster story is told for the first time in this beautiful Panufnik, notably Silver Birch, illustrated book. shortlisted for an International Opera Award in 2018. Among her other books are biographies This engaging book traces the LCO’s history from its of Korngold and Fauré and seven foundation in 1911 by conductor Anthony Bernard, to novels on music-related topics. the present day, under Artistic Director Christopher She lives in East Sheen, London. Warren-Green. It teems with entertaining stories: the composer who relished riding naked on a motor bike in the Gloucestershire countryside, the oboe player who taught her daughter’s boyfriend, Paul McCartney, to play the recorder for a much-loved Beatles song, and the times the LCO travelled the length and breadth of the US in a country & western tour bus straight out of Nashville. It adds up to a fascinating celebration of over 100 years of classical music, as well as giving unique insider glimpses into this vibrant and PUB LIC ATIO N much-loved orchestra. October 2022 S PE C IFIC ATIO N S Hardback, £25 235 x 200mm, 152 pages 978-1-399917-82-7 Colour and b/w illustrations throughout 6
BACKLIST Pimpernel Garden Classics Beth The Gertrude Meadows Chatto’s Gardener’s Jekyll at at Great Shade Book of Munstead Dixter Garden Colour Wood and Beyond shade-loving ANDREW LAWSON JUDITH TANKARD & CHRISTOPHER plants for MARTIN WOOD LLOYD & year-round ‘Thoroughly revised FERGUS GARRETT interest and updated . . . ‘[A] delicious volume PHOTOGRAPHS BY BETH CHATTO [with] spectacularly by two leading JONATHAN BUCKLEY illuminating experts . . . this & CAROL CASSELDEN PHOTOGRAPHS BY illustrations, the book explains the STEVEN WOOSTER book sets out above processes and the ‘An inspiring AFTERWORD BY book, factual and all to help you find very human side of DAVID WARD enchanting. A highly both what individual a garden designer ‘A masterclass in colours and what whose legacy recommended read.’ garden design.’ combinations endures.’ The Cottage Gardener Francine Raymond, work best for you Country Life SPECIFICAT IONS The Daily Telegraph throughout the year. Hardback, £30 SP ECI FI CAT IONS In short, invaluable.’ 230 x 170mm S PE C IF IC ATIO N S Hardback, £30 David Sexton, 240 pages Hardback, £30 230 x 170mm 978-1-910258-03-3 230 x 170mm Evening Standard 208 pages Colour illustrations 232 pages 978-1-910258-05-7 SP ECI FI C ATI O N S throughout 978-1-910258-22-4 Colour illustrations Hardback, £30 throughout Colour illustrations 230 x 170mm throughout 232 pages Rights sold: Simplified 978-1-910258-02-6 Chinese Colour illustrations throughout Rights sold: French, German, Simplified Chinese, US & Canada 7
BACKLIST Gardens & Gardening The Beth Chatto Brilliant Flower Apprehensive a life with plants & Wild Market Gardener CATHERINE a garden from botanical style managing HORWOOD scratch in a at home garden plants year WINNER, EUROPEAN MICHELLE MASON GRISELDA KERR GARDEN BOOK OF THE LUCY BELLAMY YEAR, 2019 ‘It is to all the PHOTOGRAPHS BY ‘Ideal for novices . . . followers of floral ‘A triumph, beautifully JASON INGRAM with a cheerful, designers on crafted by an author WINNER, PRACTICAL encouraging tone, it Instagram that this who has thoroughly BOOK OF THE YEAR, conveys a wealth of GARDEN MEDIA GUILD book will appeal. researched and information.’ AWARDS 2018 Every chapter has understood her subject. Daily Mail pages of impeccably There is so much here ‘Bellamy makes styled, elegant images. ‘Destined to become to keep the reader gardening simple, For anyone after a a classic.’ gripped.’ expressive and joyful. “look book” of what Garden Design Journal Fergus Garrett, Anyone can do it flowers are available Gardens Illustrated cheaply and with ‘Maintenance from a local market little spare time.’ becomes a creative ‘This fascinating, and how to combine Evening Standard force in Griselda's beautifully-written them, this will be a hands and her tips biography paints a fond ‘Both practical and useful resource. If this are interesting and and intimate portrait of inspirational.’ encourages and entices well presented.’ one of the true greats of Country Living a new generation to go Country Living the gardening world.’ out and find flowers SP ECI FI CAT IONS The Irish Times Hardback, £20 . . . it gets my vote.’ S PE C IFIC ATIO N S 235 x 187mm Simon Lycett, The Garden Paperback original, SPEC I FI CAT I ON S 176 pages £16.99, 245 x 187mm Hardback, £30, 978-1-910258-63-7 SPECIFICAT IONS 288 pages 230 x 170mm Hardback, £20 Colour illustrations 978-1-910258-23-1 288 pages 235 x 187mm throughout 40 colour illustrations 978-1-910258-82-8 176 pages Rights sold: Dutch, Rights sold: Dutch, Colour and b/w French, German 978-1-910258-20-0 French illustrations throughout Colour illustrations Rights sold: German throughout 8
BACKLIST The Garden Gardening A Garden The Generous of Vegan Notes From Well Placed Gardener how plants can a Late the story of private paradises save the animals, Bloomer helmingham and shared the planet and other gardens CLARE HASTINGS CAROLINE DONALD our health XA TOLLEMACHE DRAWINGS BY ‘Absorbing and CLEVE WEST OSBERT FOREWORD BY entertaining.’ ‘A personal, persuasive LANCASTER FERGUS GARRETT Matthew Biggs, take on why an animal-free ‘An enchanting ‘Xa Tollemache is The Garden diet might be for you and read, packed full an innately sensitive the wider world . . . this ‘These very personal of good advice and garden designer challenging, deeply personal encounters, each quirky observations . . . She reads the book is an important read.’ rendered in little on the joys – and scene so beautifully Gardens Illustrated more than a thousand occasional heartache well, embracing words, like miniature ‘Well researched and – of gardening.’ the qualities of paintings, tell us so backed up by facts and Daily Mail history, landscape, much…Enjoying figures. West writes with architecture and ‘An amusing read my journey through a forceful honesty that people, within . . . but there is also her book I felt at the anyone who has heard him her work.’ plenty of practical end that I’d been to a speak will recognise. He is Fergus Garrett advice. Comical grand garden party, self-reflective and refuses to illustrations by SP ECI FI CAT IONS catching up with a few spare himself from his own Hardback, £35 old pals and making Osbert Lancaster criticisms. The narrative 270 x 210mm, 176 pages add to the book's several new friends.’ 978-1-910258-80-4 may be personal, but it charm.’ David Wheeler, Hortus Colour illustrations resonates.’ House and Garden throughout Darryl Moore, SPECIFICAT IONS Hardback, £30 Garden Design Journal SP ECI FI C ATI O N S 230 x 170mm, 208 pages Hardback, £12.99 978-1-910258-97-2 S PE C IFIC ATIO N S 198 x 129mm Colour illustrations Paperback original, £20 128 pages throughout 230 x 170mm, 224 pages 978-1-910258-98-9 978-1-910258-47-7 Line drawings Colour and, b/w illustrations throughout throughout 9
BACKLIST Gardens & Gardening Great Dixter Head Herterton How to Then & Now Gardeners House Design a PHOTOGRAPHS BY AMBRA EDWARDS and a New Garden CHRISTOPHER LLOYD Country PHOTOGRAPHS BY JOHN BROOKES MBE & CAROL CASSELDEN CHARLIE Garden EDITED AND WITH A WORDS BY HOPKINSON FERGUS GARRETT FRANK LAWLEY FOREWORD BY GWENDOLYN VAN WINNER , INSPIR ATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHS BY ‘A fascinating record of PAASCHEN BOOK OF THE YE AR , VAL CORBETT how Dixter has been GARDEN MEDIA GUILD PREFACE BY AWARDS 2017 FOREWORD BY shaped and enriched ANDREW DUFF CHARLES over the years. Like the ‘Ambra Edwards’s QUEST-RITSON ‘Practical, insightful garden it celebrates, fascinating interviews ‘Lovingly penned, and innovative, this is a multi-layered, show what diversity deeply personal and Brookes’ reflections diverse display of there is in British strangely moving, as set down in delights.’ Gardens gardens. It's a book it speaks volumes this anthology are Illustrated about people and how about the intense enduringly sharp - ‘This book bursts with they tick – people an essential book to who happen to be relationship that a life and combines gardener gradually have in your garden Garrett’s commentary gardeners.’ The Times library.’ forges with the space with brilliant that he/she tends.’ RakesProgress ‘Brilliant.’ Ursula photography to tell the The Irish Times Buchan, The Garden SPECIFICAT IONS story of a garden that Paperback, £20 beautifully fuses the SP EC I FI CAT I ON S SP EC I FI CAT IONS 230 x 170mm old and the new.’ Paperback, £20 Paperback original, £30 224 pages 230 x 170mm, 280 pages 228 x 240mm 978-1-910258-91-0 Daily Mail 264 pages 978-1-910258-32-3 Colour and b/w S PE C IFIC ATIO N S Colour and b/w 978-1-910258-58-3 illustrations throughout Paperback, £12.99 illustrations throughout Colour illustrations Rights sold: Russian 230 x 170mm, 80 pages throughout 978-1-910258-89-7 Colour and b/w illustrations throughout 10
BACKLIST A Landscape Landscape of Led by the Modern Plant Legacy Dreams Land Hunters JOHN BROOKES MBE the gardens of landscapes by adventures isabel & julian kim wilkie in pursuit of FOREWORD BY bannerman extraordinary CLEVE WEST ‘A revelatory story FOREWORD BY plants PREFACE BY of how landscapes HRH THE PRINCE SANDY PRIMROSE ANDREW DUFF OF WALES in human hands can become inhabited ‘An incredibly ‘Essential reading ‘Makes an excellent works of art, written thorough and bang- for anyone interested present . . . Isabel’s by one of the most up-to-date account of in garden design vividly coloured style gifted of today’s contemporary field and history.’ is punctuated with landscape architects.’ botany and horticulture. Tim Richardson, acute insight.’ Sir David Attenborough It is a great read . . . The Daily Telegraph Robin Lane Fox, ‘If you want to make written in a fresh, ‘This memoir is a Financial Times conversational style. a landmark, do not book all landscape ‘An absolutely magical Hunt down this grow gentians. Get designers should book. Such brilliant botanical gem of a book Wilkie to shape have on their writing, vivid, engaged for yourself before it the myths of your shelves.’ . . . a most potent record sells out.’ dreams.’ The Garden of true brilliance.’ The Garden Robin Lane Fox, S PE C IFIC ATIO N S Anna Pavord Financial Times ‘A thoroughly researched Hardback, £40 and well-written book 270 x 210mm ‘Now here’s real glitz, SP ECI FI CAT IONS 280 pages of a truly wonderful Hardback, £35 . . . it is entertaining, 978-1-910258-93-4 romantic kind.’ 230 x 170mm, 216 pages informative, educational Colour illustrations 978-1-910258-52-1 and a joy to read.’ Stephen Anderton, throughout Colour and b/w The Sunday Times Reckless Gardener illustrations throughout SP EC I FI CAT I ON S SPECIFICAT IONS Paperback, £25 Hardback, £30 285 x 230mm, 296 pages 235 x 156mm, 272 pages 978-1-910258-26-2 978-1-910258-78-1 Colour illustrations Colour illustrations throughout throughout 11
BACKLIST Gardens & Gardening On Psyche’s Paradise Pots Potted Lawn and Plenty for all seasons History the garden at a rothschild TOM HARRIS how plaz metaxu family garden houseplants ‘Packed with all the took over ALASDAIR FORBES MARY KEEN practical advice and our homes PHOTOGRAPHS BY ‘A beautifully designed inspiration you need CATHERINE and produced book, TOM HATTON to create stunning HORWOOD intensively illustrated ‘Exceptional.’ container plant ‘One of my favourite by atmospheric Anna Pavord, The Garden displays . . . this photographs, but – contemporary look books on gardening. above all – illuminated ‘Gloriously illustrated.’ at container planting It’s a story of potted by a thoughtful text, Woman and Home will encourage many plants from the bustle muscularly written and to try something new of Covent Garden ‘Packed with in the 17th century unflinchingly readable.’ practical information and have some fun.’ Hortus Gardens Illustrated to the Instagram age and guidance.’ via the Titanic (yes) ‘An extraordinary book Ths Daily Telegraph ‘Brilliant . . . inspired and Dr Hessayon, but about an extraordinary ‘The book gives a . . . Page after page of Horwood’s cleverness place . . . Very lavishly rare and profound glorious photographs is to use the story to illustrated and beautifully understanding of really make this book give wider insights produced in a large the sophistication and help to inspire into how we live, quarto format. The whole of gardening at its readers to be bold and, indeed, how design and production most masterly . . . in their choice of cities have changed mirror the devoted care Inspiring.’ Kim Wilkie, plant, containers and over time.’ and thought that has House & Garden arrangements.’ Christopher Woodward, gone into creating these Country Smallholding Director, Garden remarkable gardens SP EC I FI CAT I ON S Museum, London Paperback, £30 SP ECI FI CAT IONS themselves.’ Classics for All 270 x 210mm, 304 pages Hardback, £20 SPECIFICAT IONS 978-1-910258-75-0 235 x 200mm, 176 pages Paperback, £9.99 S PE C IFIC ATIO N S Colour illustrations 978-1-910258-79-8 198 x 129mm, 192 pages Hardback, £50 throughout, Colour illustrations 978-1-910258-94-1 320 x 220mm, 304 pages seven double gatefolds throughout 15 b/w illustrations 978-1-910258-81-1 Rights sold: German Rights sold: French, Colour illustrations Simplified Chinese throughout 12
BACKLIST Pure Style in Scent Magic The Star- Setting the Garden notes from a Nosed Mole the Scene creating an gardener an anthology a garden design outdoor haven ISABEL BANNERMAN of scented masterclass garden writing from repton to JANE CUMBERBATCH FOREWORD BY EDITED AND WITH WORDS the modern age RICHARD E GRANT ‘Expect simple, AND PHOTOGRAPHS BY GEORGE CARTER stylish ideas on how ‘Part diary and part ISABEL BANNERMAN SPECIAL PHOTOGRAPHY BY to use plants and practical guide to ‘Looking for a present MARIANNE MAJERUS accessories to achieve perfumed plants, ‘Pure Style’ and for a bookish garden- ‘Sheer originality, illustrated with ultimately furnish a lover? The Star-Nosed verve, wit and [the author's] own garden like a room.’ Mole evokes the joys invention burst from photographs, it is Independent of a scented garden the images on these a dream of a book, through exquisite pages. The author ‘Part diary, part wandering off down poetry, prose and modestly tells us notebook, part recipe scented pathways of pictures.’ about Repton – but it book and part photo memories, moods and Country Living is Carter from whom album, reading the moments past.’ The Sunday Times ‘A wonderful we learn. He gives four seasonal chapters Gardening Book of the collection . . . a book the amateur designer is like going to stay Year 2019 to cheer you up on the confidence to with someone and the wet, cold days . . . experiment with gradually finding SP ECI FI C ATI O N S I loved it.’ ornament and be bold out the story of their Hardback, £30 270 x 210mm Reckless Gardener with evergreen shapes.’ garden and what 256 pages Tim Richardson, makes it so special.’ 978-1-910258-49-1 SP ECI FI CAT IONS Gardens Illustrated Waitrose Weekend Colour illustrations Hardback, £20 throughout 230 x 170mm SPECIFICAT IONS S PE C IFIC ATIO N S 144 pages Hardback, £50 Hardback, £20 978-1-910258-45-3 270 x 210mm 235 x 187mm Colour illustrations 208 pages 192 pages throughout 978-1-910258-59-0 978-1-910258-06-4 Colour illustrations Colour illustrations throughout throughout 13
BACKLIST Gardens & Gardening Topiary, Woburn You Should Wild Fruits, Knots and Abbey Have Been Berries, Parterres the park Here Nuts & & gardens Last Week Flowers CAROLINE FOLEY WINNER, EUROPEAN KEIR DAVIDSON sharp cuttings 101 good recipes GARDEN BOOK OF SPECIAL PHOTOGRAPHY from a garden for using them THE YEAR, 2018 BRIDGET DAVEY writer BY B. JAMES ‘Demonstrates that INTRODUCTION BY TIM RICHARDSON FOREWORD BY this most ancient THE DUCHESS OF BARBARA SEGALL ‘A collection of lively of traditions is BEDFORD articles by one of the ‘The informative alive and kicking, ‘The best most intelligent and entertaining reinterpreted by country-house garden critics writing foreword is a perfect contemporary garden history published today. Richardson is introduction to and landscape in recent years.’ not afraid to prod, what lies beyond designers to look as John Martin Robinson, tease and question and we are grateful relevant today as it Country Life received opinion.’ to Barbara for was to the Romans. The Sunday Times bringing this You will be reaching SPEC I FI CAT I ON S for those shears.’ Hardback, £40 ‘The most amazing collection 270 x 210mm of recipes to a 21st The Sunday Times independent, 240 pages century audience . . . 978-1-910258-13-2 thoughtful, ‘Every page brings delightful.’ Colour illustrations challenging gardening a new wonder.’ throughout Reckless Gardener critic writing now. Anna Pavord, Every article here SPECIFICAT IONS House & Garden makes entertaining Hardback, £9.99 S PE C IFIC ATIO N S reading as well as being 189 x 137mm Hardback, £50 well worth pondering.’ 96 pages 270 x 210mm 978-1-914902-98-7 Evening Standard B/w illustrations 288 pages 978-1-910258-18-7 SP ECI F I CAT I ONS throughout Colour illustrations Paperback, £9.99 throughout 198 x 129mm Rights sold: French, 224 pages German 978-1-910258-86-6 14
BACKLIST Architecture & Interiors After the Fire Bridges Henbury New York london churches spanning an extraordinary places to write in the age of wren, the world house home about hooke, hawksmoor MARCUS BINNEY JEREMY MUSSON POLLY DEVLIN and gibbs FOREWORD BY PHOTOGRAPHS BY ANGELO HORNAK ‘Binney’s examples HRH THE PRINCE ANNIE SCHLECHTER are drawn from FOREWORD BY THE RT OF WALES around the world ‘Features styles for REVD STEPHEN PLATTEN INTRODUCTION BY and across the every taste, from the GILLY ZIANI DE ‘For those who may not centuries, from totally bonkers to the FERRANTI wish to negotiate the the works of restrained and elegant.’ irregular opening hours, ancient masons and ‘This beautiful book The Times Angelo Hornak’s After medieval carpenters pays splendid tribute the Fire transports you to projects by to the finest late ‘Outstandingly rare to each of the surviving contemporary 20th-century Classical and precious.’ Wren churches with architects and The Guardian house in England . . . a masterly photographs of engineers.’ fascinating record of a ‘Invites you into the their best perspectives Architecture Today unique building, as well homes of more than two and sharp close-ups of as a visual treat.’ dozen New Yorkers who SP EC I FI CAT I ON S their salient details Hardback, £40 John Martin Robinson, live all over the city. . . . This handsome 245 x 300mm Country Life There are maximalists book captures the visual 256 pages drama at the heart of 978-1-910258-17-0 ‘Beautifully illustrated, and traditionalists, a Memphis mecca in Colour illustrations full of wonderful what proved to be an throughout unparalleled flowering of Rights sold: photography, drawings, Chelsea − even a letters and portraits.’ Baptist church-cum- English architecture . . . a Japanese home in Harlem.’ Apollo dizzy kaleidoscopic treat.’ Isabel Wilkinson, World of Interiors SP EC I FI CAT IONS The New York Times Hardback, £50 S PE C IFIC ATIO N S 305 x 229mm, 240 pages SPECIFICAT IONS Hardback, £50 978-1-910258-11-8 Hardback, £40 270 x 210mm, 384 pages Colour and b/w illustrations 305 x 229mm, 224 pages 978-1-910258-08-8 throughout 978-1-910258-07-1 Colour illustrations Colour illustrations throughout throughout Rights sold: US & Canada 15
BACKLIST Architecture & Interiors On the Osbert Restoration Vintage Fringe Lancaster’s Stories Shops a life in Cartoons, patina and paint London decorating Columns and in old london MICHELLE MASON Curlicues houses IMOGEN TAYLOR PHILIPPA STOCKLEY ‘A delightful visual ‘As sharp as an including: journey through pillar to post PHOTOGRAPHS BY upholsterer's tack, homes sweet homes CHARLIE HOPKINSON London’s most Miss Taylor worked drayneflete inspiring and creative at Colefax for 50 revealed ‘A celebration of the vintage shops . . . years and offers a poetry of decay and the includes useful tips OSBERT LANCASTER rare account of a practical responsibilities and ideas on how to lost world . . . As ‘Lancaster’s delightfully of looking after period draw inspiration from well as unflagging sardonic spoof buildings. Charlie these beautiful shops aperçus, [she] gives architectural histories Hopkinson’s pictures to create unique a warm account of are handsomely are a joy; the writing is displays at home.’ the craftspeople she republished by the equally captivating.’ Paula Flynn, worked with, many Pimpernel Press.’ The Sunday Times @the_shopkeepers of whose intricate The Spectator ‘Seduces on so many ‘A must-have guide trades are now lost. ‘Contains pretty levels . . . this is not for vintage hunters.’ Here is a woman with a great appetite much everything you solely a picture book. Period Living for life.’ need to know about [Stockley’s] relaxed SPECIFICAT IONS architecture.’ text combines a portrait Paperback, £12.99 Country Life RIBA Journal of each house with 190 x 170mm, 144 pages S P E C IFIC ATIO N S local history, practical 978-1-910258-99-6 Hardback, £50 SP ECI FI C ATI O N S information and Colour illustrations 285 x 230mm Hardback boxed set, £40 throughout 224 pages 230 x 180mm, 304 pages decorative tips.’ 978-1-910258-77-4 978-1-910258-37-8 Country Life Colour illustrations Line drawings throughout throughout SP ECI FI CAT IONS Hardback, £45 275 x 245mm, 224 pages 978-1-910258-41-5 Colour and b/w illustrations throughout 16
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