Thursday, March 11, 2010

Books

First to Fight

Seventy years after the invasion of Poland, leading British statesmen and military leaders, from The Rt Hon The Baroness Thatcher to General The Lord Guthrie, unite to remind us: "We must never forget Poland's unique contribution to B

Mary King The Autobiography

An icon of British equestrianism, Mary King is one of the most popular and successful British Event riders Currently ranked third by the International Federation of Eventing, Mary King’s achievements as a rider span a l

Around Market Harborough Between the Wars

Local Author, Mike Hutton, who ,lives in Great Oxendon on the Leicestershire/Northamptonshire borders has completed his first non fiction work, having previously had three successful novels published.

Tout Sweet hanging up my high heels for a new life in France

In her mid-thirties Karen has it all: a career as a national-press fashion editor, a handsome boyfriend, a fab flat in west London and an array of the most gorgeous shoes.

Clean water and good food two new publications by Michael Littlewood

Responding to the ever increasing interest being shown in natural swimming pools and the demand for locally grown organic produce in season, eco-landscape architect, garden designer and organic gardener, Michae

Fork to Fork

In this 10th anniversary special reissue of Fork to Fork, one of Britain’s best-loved gardening personalities, Monty Don and his wife Sarah celebrate the vital link between growing, cooking and eating your own fruit, vegetables and herbs all

The Amazing World of Orchids

Mysterious and alluring, infinitely beautiful and breathtakingly varied, orchids have fired man’s imagination throughout the ages.

A Passion for Plants by Carolyn Fry Foreword by Alan Titchmarsh

No nation feels quite as passionately about its gardens as the British and no institution embodies this passion more than The Royal Horticultural Society.


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