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All I Want for Christmas Is Yarn: 30 Crochet Projects For Festive Gifts And Decorations
by Lindsey NewnsCrochet yourself into the Christmas spirit with these 30 gorgeous patterns for decorations, festive outerwear and personal gifts..
101 Things to Do With a Banana
by B.A. NanaA bunch of truly ap-peeling things to do with this fruit basket staple.
Painted Travels: Portraits Of Remarkable Places
by SJ AxelbyAn armchair discovery tour of truly remarkable places, captured in SJ Axelby’s inimitable watercolours. This follow-up volume to SJ Axelby’s Interior Portraits transports the reader to bars, cafes, museums, shops, hotels, tearooms, restaurants, lobbies, vineyards, trains, casinos, members’ clubs and more, around the world.
Hammer & Nail: Making And Assembling Furniture Designs Inspired By Enzo Mari
by Erik Eje AlmqvistInspired by radical Italian designer Enzo Mari, this practical book with step-by-step DIY projects for hand built, beautiful furniture is a tribute to his simple ideas that challenged the consumerism of the furniture industry.
The Sustainable Home: Easy Ways To Live With Nature In Mind
by Ida MagntornHandy and inspirational tips and lists – how to reduce plastic consumption, clean with eco-friendly products and working with the seasons to bring the outdoors inside. A beautifully produced book on interiors with a focus on sustainability and wellbeing and creating a home with the environment in mind.
Dungeness: Coastal Architecture
by Dominic BradburyThe Kent coastal strip of Dungeness is a unique environment. Harshly vulnerable to the elements yet protected from inland development, it has enticed many architects, artists, photographers and creative thinkers, including of course renowned artist and film-maker Derek Jarman.
The Joy of Weeds: A Celebration Of Wild Plants
by Paul FarrellA colourful, illustrated celebration of wild plants around the world, and why we should love them not loathe them, with 50 graphic illustrations by Paul Farrell.
Plants for Free: Seeds And Cuttings To Fill Your Garden
by Sharon AmosIn this book, Sharon Amos explains how to design and create a beautiful garden for little or no money, offering tips on bartering for clippings, getting a bargain at garage sales or neighbourhood fairs, digging up suckers or adapting wild species and controlling them in a garden environment.
Dahlias: Beautiful Varieties For Home And Garden
by Naomi SladeFor years dahlias have been dismissed for being garish, gaudy additions to gardens and arrangements, but when you find the right variety it's hard to think of a better garden plant or more striking cut flower.
Botanical Block Printing: A Creative Step-by-step Handbook To Make Art Inspired By Nature
by Rosanna MorrisDiscover the world of botanical block printing through an approachable guide that unveils a plethora of practical techniques and processes. This guide invites you to create stunning prints inspired by the natural world, all crafted by your own hands.
Gardens of the National Trust (National Trust)
by Stephen Lacey National Trust BooksThe definitive guide to hundreds of Britain’s most outstanding gardens, in the care of the National Trust
How To Clean Your House at Christmas
by Lynsey, Queen of Clean‘A cracker of a book packed with tips – you’ll feel instantly organised.’ Aggie MacKenzie
The Gardener’s Almanac 2024 (National Trust)
by Greg Loades National Trust BooksInformation, inspiration, tips and trivia to help you make the most of your gardening year
How to Build a Home (Little Experts #Book 5)
by George ClarkeGet designing and building with architect and TV presenter GEORGE CLARKE. From marvellous materials to future tech – discover the stories behind our homes.
GROW: Fill your world with plants (National Trust)
by Robyn Booth National Trust BooksDiscover the joy of growing and using plants indoors and outdoors, no matter how limited your space.
The Essential Handbook (Adopt Me!)
by Uplift GamesAn essential game companion for new players and long-time fans of the popular online game, Adopt Me!
Positively Green: Everyday tips to help the planet and calm climate anxiety (National Trust)
by Sarah LaBrecque National Trust BooksPositively Green is a guide to caring for the planet – and yourself.
The First-Time Forager: A Complete Beginner's Guide To Britain's Edible Plants (National Trust)
by Andy HamiltonA friendly, honest guide for wary would-be foragers Only plants that are easy to find, easy to identify and tasty Clear photographic guides to the species
Making Things Move DIY Mechanisms (PDF)
by Dustyn RobertsIn Making Things Move: DIY Mechanisms for Inventors, Hobbyists, and Artists, you'll learn how to successfully build moving mechanisms through non-technical explanations, examples, and do-it-yourself projects--from kinetic art installations to creative toys to energy-harvesting devices. Photographs, illustrations, screen shots, and images of 3D models are included for each project. This unique resource emphasizes using off-the-shelf components, readily available materials, and accessible fabrication techniques. Simple projects give you hands-on practice applying the skills covered in each chapter, and more complex projects at the end of the book incorporate topics from multiple chapters. Turn your imaginative ideas into reality with help from this practical, inventive guide.
Wildwood: A Journey Through Trees
by Roger DeakinRoger Deakin's Wildwood is a much loved classic of nature writingWildwood is about the element wood, as it exists in nature, in our souls, in our culture and our lives.From the walnut tree at his Suffolk home, Roger Deakin embarks upon a quest that takes him through Britain, across Europe, to Central Asia and Australia, in search of what lies behind man's profound and enduring connection with wood and with trees.Meeting woodlanders of all kinds, he lives in shacks and cabins, travels in search of the wild apple groves of Kazakhstan, goes coppicing in Suffolk, swims beneath the walnut trees of the Haut-Languedoc, and hunts bush plums with Aboriginal women in the outback.Perfect for fans of Robert Macfarlane and Colin Tudge, Roger Deakin's unmatched exploration of our relationship with trees is autobiography, history, traveller's tale and incisive work in natural history. It will take you into the heart of the woods, where we go 'to grow, learn and change''Enthralling' Will Self, New Statesman'Extraordinary . . . some of the finest naturalist writing for many years' Independent'Masterful, fascinating, excellent' Guardian'An excellent read - lyrical and literate and full of social and historical insights of all kinds' Colin Tudge, Financial Times'Enchanting, very funny, every page carries a fascinating nugget. Should serve to make us appreciate more keenly all that we have here on earth . . . one of the greatest of all nature writers' Craig Brown, Mail on Sunday'Breathtaking, vividly written . . . reading Wildwood is an elegiac experience' Sunday TimesRoger Deakin, who died in August 2006, shortly after completing the manuscript for Wildwood, was a writer, broadcaster and film-maker with a particular interest in nature and the environment. He lived for many years in Suffolk, where he swam regularly in his moat, in the river Waveney and in the sea, in between travelling widely through the landscapes he writes about in Wildwood. He is the author of Waterlog, Wildwood and Notes from Walnut Tree Farm.
The Handmade House: A Love Story Set in Concrete
by Geraldine Bedell"We didn't intend to build a house. We just wanted to move - somewhere a bit bigger, with more of a garden: commonplace enough ambitions, especially for families with young children, especially in Britain, where property is wealth, and so, in some vague and unexamined sense, identity. Not that we were thinking about anything like that." The true and very funny story of how journalist, Geraldine Bedell and her husband Charlie Leadbeater, with no savings and no knowledge of architecture nearly make themselves bankrupt in an attempt to build their dream home. Far more than that, it's about the ultimate fantasy - creating your own made to measure living space. The Handmade House tells the story, alternately comical and horrifying, of one family's ambitious and inept attempt to build the perfect home.
The Thrift Book: Live Well and Spend Less
by India KnightThe Thrift Book is a guide to how to live well while spending less by bestselling writer India Knight.Feeling poor because of the credit crunch? Feeling guilty because of global warming? Feeling like you'd like to tighten your belt, but aren't ready to embrace DIY macramé handbags? No need to panic. Put down the economy mince and buy this book instead - it's a blueprint for living beautifully, while saving money and easing your conscience. India Knight will show you:- How to make wonderful dinners with every little money- How to dress on a budget and still look fabulous- How to make friends and start sharing with your neighbours- How to holiday imaginatively - with barely a carbon footprintTry it - you have nothing to lose but your overdraft.'A blueprint for living well, however broke you are, with thrifty tips on looking fab, cooking, pampering and partying' Cosmopolitan'The Thrift Book might be the only sure-fire investment out there' Harper's Bazaar'A triumphant treat and a useful and sensible manual' IndependentIndia Knight is the author of four novels: My Life on a Plate, Don't You Want Me, Comfort and Joy and Mutton. Her non-fiction books include The Shops, the bestselling diet book Neris and India's Idiot-Proof Diet, the accompanying bestselling cookbook Neris and India's Idiot-Proof Diet Cookbook and The Thrift Book. India is a columnist for the Sunday Times and lives in London with her three children.Follow India on Twitter @indiaknight or on her blog at http://indiaknight.tumblr.com.
The Hidden Life of Otto Frank
by Carol Ann LeeOtto Frank was the father of the most famous girl of the 20th Century. It was he who found her diaries after her death and his determination to see them published around the world. This is the first time his story has been told.Born into a prosperous Jewish family in Berlin, his life was a portrait in miniature of the century: decorated after the Battle of the Somme, forced to flee Germany in the 1930s, betrayed and imprisoned by the Nazis in the Holocaust and finally gaining recognition bybearing witness to the century's horrors though the writings of his young daughter.Carol Ann Lee has written a powerful biography of an extraordinary man's life caught up in history.
Ask Aggie: For All Your Cleaning Solutions
by Aggie MacKenzieHundreds of solutions to all your housekeeping needs! Banish those stains and transform your home into a palace of sparkling surfaces, clutter-free cupboards and carpets to be proud of. From ovens to fridges to bathrooms, red wine rings, and foul smelling microwaves - Aggie has all the answers to any cleaning question you can think of. From top to bottom, inside and outside, you'll find oodles of nifty ideas to take the drudgery out of cleaning. Erase each and every one of your domestic nightmares - after all, nobody knows housekeeping quite like Aggie!