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Cover illustration: from Thomas Hennell (see pages 2–3)
NEW TITLE
Great Dixter
Then & Now
CHRISTOPHER LLOYD
PHOTOGRAPHY BY
& CAROL CASSELDEN
WORDS BY FERGUS GARRETT
A photographic record of the gardens at
Great Dixter, past and present.
Christopher Lloyd, icon and iconoclast of the CHRISTOPHER LLOYD
(1921–2006) was one of the greatest
gardening world, was born at Great Dixter, in East gardeners of the twentieth century
Sussex, in 1921 and died there in 2006. In the and has been described as the
years between he developed the garden at Dixter world’s finest-ever garden writer. A
charismatic and controversial figure,
into a mecca for plantsmen and a hub of ideas and he devoted his life to his garden
connections that spread throughout the world. And at Great Dixter, and he produced
from the 1930s almost until his death he was also some of the most influential
gardening books of the last hundred
photographing the garden, recording it in intimate years. He was made OBE in 2000
detail as it changed and developed. and held the highest award of the
A carefully chosen selection of Christopher's Royal Horticultural Society, the
Victoria Medal of Honour.
photographs is published here, the majority for the
first time. They are juxtaposed with images from CAROL CASSELDEN is an
the Lloyd family's earliest days at Dixter, and with award-winning photographer of
gardens and plants. She lived
photographs taken by Carol Casselden of the garden at Sandhurst in Kent, close to
as it is today. Great Dixter, until a recent move
to Edinburgh.
FERGUS GARRETT was chosen
by Christopher Lloyd as his head
gardener at Dixter in 1992. He
worked closely with Christo until
Lloyd’s death in 2006. He is now
PUB L IC ATIO N Chief Executive of the Great Dixter
Charitable Trust, and also combines
February 2021 his full-time, hands-on gardening
S PE C IF IC ATIO N S role at Dixter with writing and
Paperback, £12.99 lecturing. He was awarded the
Veitch Memorial Medal by the RHS
230 x 170mm, 80 pages in 2015 and in 2019, the coveted
978-1-910258-89-7 RHS Victoria Medal of Honour.
colour and b/w illustrations throughout
1NEW TITLE
Thomas Hennell
the land and the mind
JESSICA KILBURN
The first major reappraisal of the life and work of
watercolourist and war artist Thomas Hennell in over
thirty years.
Thomas Hennell (1903–1945) said his aim was to ‘surprise JESSICA KILBURN is a
his subject’ – to capture the transient quality of the writer and researcher from
Northumberland. She read
moment. In watercolour he found his perfect medium, English at Merton College,
producing work which was, as his fellow artist Edward Oxford, followed by History
Bawden said, ‘fully expressive and technically perfect’. of Art at the University of
Glasgow. She contributed
During an idyllic childhood in rural Kent Hennell articles to the Oxford Dictionary
discovered his love of the English countryside. He of National Biography, has
explored its fields, farms and woods, and later, travelling written for Illustration magazine
and curated an exhibition
on a rusty old bicycle, developed an appreciation of about Lancelot ‘Capability’
England’s traditions and crafts. Much of his work Brown at his birthplace in
records the countryside in a state of change, imbuing his Northumberland.
sense of loss with poetic intensity. THOMAS HENNELL was
In the early 1930s, Hennell suffered a severe born into a remarkable
breakdown and later described the three years he spent generation of English artists that
included Eric Ravilious, John
in mental hospitals in his memoir The Witnesses (1938), Piper, Graham Sutherland and
an astonishing document in a period when stigma still Barbara Hepworth. His peers
attached to mental illness. Hennell’s remarkable talent regarded him as one of their
finest creative talents; Jessica
for friendship survived his years of mental turmoil. Kilburn’s sensitive and deeply
Jessica Kilburn’s new biography brings Hennell the man researched new biography
vividly to life through extracts from his letters to friends restores this unjustly neglected
artist to his rightful place in the
and personal accounts by people who knew him. history of twentieth-century
As this richly illustrated book shows, the artist’s final English art.
years were exceptionally productive. In 1943 Hennell was
appointed an official war artist, yielding commissions in P U B L I CATI O N
Iceland and northern Europe. At the war’s end, Hennell March 2021
received a final posting to the Far East. Tragically, he was SP E CI F I CATI O NS
caught up in the struggle for independence in Java and in Hardback, £60
late October 1945 he disappeared, in circumstances upon 287 x 230mm, 352 pages
which Jessica Kilburn sheds new light. 978-1-910258-62-0
Colour and b/w illustrations
throughout
3NEW TITLE NEW TITLE
Head Gardeners Vintage Shops
AMBRA EDWARDS London
PHOTOGRAPHY BY CHARLIE HOPKINSON MICHELLE MASON
An updated and expanded edition of the acclaimed
Head Gardeners – winner of the Garden Media A stunning photographic guide to London’s
Guild Inspirational Book of the Year Award. best vintage shops.
AMBR A EDWARDS is a journalist This paperback edition includes interviews with two An antidote to online retail and fast fashion, the MICHELLE MASON is a designer,
with a special interest in garden new head gardeners, Stephen Griffith of Abbotsbury enduring beauty of a vintage item - purchased with illustrator and co-owner of successful
history, and the people, passions vintage emporium Mason &
and often surprising stories that Subtropical Gardens, Dorset; and Fiona Dennis on all its imperfections and age-worn beauty - is the Painter, which opened in Columbia
lie behind our gardens. Three her work at Charleston Farmhouse, East Sussex. inspiration behind this new book from Michelle Road, London E2 in 2013 to great
times voted the Garden Media There are also updates on all the gardeners featured Mason, stylist and founder of Mason & Painter in acclaim. Her first book, Flower Market:
Guild’s Garden Journalist of the Botanical Style at Home was published
Year, she is a regular contributor in the hardback edition: Ned Price, Fergus Garrett, London’s Columbia Road. by Pimpernel Press in 2019.
to the Guardian, Telegraph, Gardens Paul Pulford, Mick Evans, Beatrice Krehl, Troy Reclaimed and repurposed objects have the
Illustrated, Hortus and Country Living. Scott Smith, Lucille Savin, Alistair Clark, Carol ability to inspire a whole room, an outfit or just
Her most recent book is The Story
of the English Garden (Pavilion, Sales, Andrew Woodall, Michael Walker, Martin evoke a special feeling: fragments of a previous
2018). Ambra Edwards lives Ogle, Jim Buckland and Sarah Wain. life. Michelle adds her own inspirational style
in Dorset. steal tips and ideas for quick updates for the
CHARLIE HOPKINSON is a ‘Edwards is so skilled at unearthing the often smallest spaces in your home without spending a
portrait and landscape photographer conflicting passions of her subjects you feel as though huge amount of time or money, and shows how
specializing in the arts, gardening and you are eavesdropping on an intimate conversation, you can recreate your own ‘vintage look’ capturing
landscape. As well as being published
in magazines and books worldwide, illuminating person and place. Charlie Hopkinson’s the spirit of each place.
his work is exhibited at the National eloquent photographs capture the essence of Featuring more than 50 vintage shops, markets
Portrait Gallery. His most recent their subjects. The book is also a covert plea for and stalls, illustrated with sumptuous special
book is Restoration Stories: Patina
and Paint in Old London Houses, investment in gardeners at all levels.’ photography and including special behind-the-
with Philippa Stockley, published Gardens Illustrated scenes tips, Vintage Shops London will appeal to
by Pimpernel in 2019. He lives everyone interested in interiors, styling, responsible
in London.
‘Rarely do garden books move me to tears, but shopping, reclaimed and vintage objects and
PUB LI C ATIO N
certain pages in Head Gardeners were so moving authentic, beautifully styled shops.
March 2021 that I found myself welling up. This is a book which
P U B L I CATI O N
celebrates a gardener’s resilience and imagination as
S PE CI FI C ATIO N S April 2021
Paperback, £20 well as the traditional gardening virtues.’
S P E CI F I CATI O NS
230 x 170mm, 280 pages Gillian Mawrey, Historic Gardens Review
Paperback, £12.99
978-1-910258-32-3 190 x 170mm, 144 pages
Colour and b/w illustrations ‘Visually appealing and revealing . . . brilliant.’ 978-1-910258-99-6
throughout Ursula Buchan, The Garden Colour illustrations throughout
4 5BACKLIST BACKLIST
Pimpernel Garden Classics Gardens & Gardening
Beth The Gertrude Meadows The Beth Chatto Brilliant Double
Chatto's Gardener's Jekyll at at Great Apprehensive a life with plants & Wild Flowers
Shade Book of Munstead Dixter Gardener CATHERINE a garden from the remarkable
Garden Colour Wood and Beyond managing HORWOOD scratch in a story of extra-
garden plants year petalled blooms
shade-loving ANDREW LAWSON JUDITH TANKARD & CHRISTOPHER
plants for ‘Catherine Horwood's
LLOYD & GRISELDA KERR LUCY BELLAMY NICOLA FERGUSON
MARTIN WOOD book is a triumph,
year-round ‘Thoroughly revised FERGUS GARRETT PHOTOGRAPHS BY CHARLES
WITH
interest and updated . . . ‘[A] delicious volume ‘Ideal for novices . . . beautifully crafted by
PHOTOGRAPHS BY JASON INGRAM QUEST-RITSON
[with] spectacularly by two leading with a cheerful, an author who has
BETH CHATTO JONATHAN BUCKLEY
illuminating experts . . . this encouraging tone, it thoroughly researched WINNER, PRACTICAL
‘Scholarly and
PHOTOGRAPHS BY & CAROL CASSELDEN BOOK OF THE YEAR,
illustrations, the book explains the conveys a wealth of and understood her GARDEN MEDIA GUILD fascinating.’
STEVEN WOOSTER subject. From start to
book sets out above processes and the ‘An inspiring information.’ AWARDS 2018 Rachel de Thame,
AFTERWORD BY
all to help you find very human side of book, factual and Daily Mail finish, this publication The Sunday Times
DAVID WARD
‘Bellamy makes
both what individual a garden designer enchanting. A highly gives us a real Gardening Book of the
‘Destined to become gardening simple,
‘A masterclass in colours and what whose legacy recommended read.’ understanding of Beth's Year 2018
a classic.’ expressive and joyful.
garden design.’ combinations endures.’ The Cottage Gardener life. There is so much
Garden Design Journal Anyone can do it ‘Both erudite and
work best for you here to keep the reader
Francine Raymond, Country Life SPECIFICAT IONS cheaply and with seductively readable,
throughout the year. ‘Maintenance gripped.’ Fergus Garrett,
The Daily Telegraph Hardback, £30 little spare time.’ comparable to
SP EC I FI C AT IONS Gardens Illustrated
In short, invaluable.’ 230 x 170mm becomes a creative Evening Standard
S PE CI FI C ATIO N S Hardback, £25 the writings of
David Sexton, 240 pages force in Griselda's
Hardback, £30 230 x 170mm ‘This fascinating, Christopher Lloyd
978-1-910258-03-3 hands and her tips ‘Both practical and
230 x 170mm Evening Standard 208 pages beautifully-written - and there simply
Colour illustrations inspirational.’
232 pages 978-1-910258-05-7 are interesting and
S PE C I FI C ATI ON S throughout biography paints a fond hasn’t been a book on
978-1-910258-22-4 Colour illustrations well presented.’ Country Living
Hardback, £25 throughout and intimate portrait of the subject before.’
Colour illustrations Country Living
230 x 170mm one of the true greats of S P E CI F I CATI O NS David Sexton,
throughout
232 pages the gardening world.’ Hardback, £20
SPECIFICAT I O NS Evening Standard
978-1-910258-02-6 235 x 187mm
Colour illustrations Paperback original, The Irish Times
176 pages
throughout £16.99, 245 x 187mm S P E CI F I CATI O NS
978-1-910258-63-7 Hardback, £30
288 pages SP E CI F I CATI O NS
Rights sold: French,
Hardback, £30, Colour illustrations 230 x 170mm
978-1-910258-23-1
German, Simplified
230 x 170mm throughout 296 pages
Chinese, US & Canada 40 colour illustrations
288 pages Rights sold: Dutch, 978-1-910258-88-0
978-1-910258-82-8 French, German Colour illustrations
Colour and b/w throughout
illustrations throughout
Rights sold: German
6 7BACKLIST BACKLIST
Gardens & Gardening
Flower The Garden Gardening Gardening The Generous Herterton A Landscape Landscape of
Market of Vegan Across Notes From Gardener House Legacy Dreams
botanical style how plants can the Pond a Late private paradises and a New JOHN BROOKES MBE the gardens of
at home save the animals, anglo-american Bloomer shared Country isabel & julian
FOREWORD BY
the planet and exchanges from Garden bannerman
MICHELLE MASON CLARE HASTINGS CAROLINE DONALD CLEVE WEST
our health the settlers FOREWORD BY
‘It is to all the in virginia to DRAWINGS BY ‘Absorbing and FRANK LAWLEY PREFACE BY
HRH THE PRINCE OF
CLEVE WEST ANDREW DUFF
followers of floral prairie gardens OSBERT entertaining.’ PHOTOGRAPHS BY WALES
designers on ‘A personal, persuasive in england LANCASTER Matthew Biggs, VAL CORBETT ‘Essential reading ‘Makes an excellent
Instagram that this take on why an animal- ‘An enchanting The Garden for anyone interested
RICHARD BISGROVE FOREWORD BY
present . . . Isabel’s
book will appeal. free diet might be for you read, packed full CHARLES in garden design
and the wider world . . . ‘I was completely ‘These very personal vividly coloured style
Every chapter has of good advice and QUEST-RITSON and history.’
this challenging, deeply riveted from the encounters, each is punctuated with
pages of impeccably quirky observations Tim Richardson,
personal book is an very first page . . . rendered in little ‘Lovingly penned, acute insight. The
styled, elegant images. on the joys – and The Daily Telegraph
important read.’ illuminating.’ more than a thousand deeply personal and Bannermans describe
For anyone after a occasional heartache
Gardens Illustrated Gardens Illustrated words, like miniature strangely moving, ‘This memoir is a and illustrate designs
“look book” of what – of gardening.’ paintings, tell us so it speaks volumes book all landscape which bring the
flowers are available ‘Well researched and ‘Bisgrove deftly Daily Mail much…Enjoying about the intense designers should past into the present
from a local market backed up by facts and establishes the
‘An amusing read my journey through relationship that a have on their without losing their
and how to combine figures. West writes with links between those
. . . but there is also her book I felt at the gardener gradually shelves.’ capacity to startle as
them, this will be a a forceful honesty that who have shaped
plenty of practical end that I’d been to a forges with the space The Garden well as delight.’
useful resource. If this anyone who has heard our gardens and
advice. Comical grand garden party, that he/she tends.’ Robin Lane Fox,
encourages and entices him speak will recognise. landscapes on both SP E CI F I CATI O NS
illustrations by catching up with a few The Irish Times Financial Times
a new generation to go He is self-reflective and sides of the Atlantic.’ Hardback, £40
Osbert Lancaster old pals and making 270 x 210mm
out and find flowers refuses to spare himself The English Garden S P E CI F I CATI O NS ‘Now here’s real glitz,
add to the book's several new friends.’ Paperback original, £30 280 pages
. . . it gets my vote.’ from his own criticisms. of a truly wonderful
SP E C I FICAT IONS charm.’ David Wheeler, Hortus 228 x 240mm 978-1-910258-93-4
Simon Lycett, The Garden The narrative may be Colour illustrations romantic kind.’
Hardback, £40 House and Garden 264 pages
personal, but it resonates.’ 230 x 170mm, 240 pages
SPECIFICAT I O NS 978-1-910258-58-3 throughout Stephen Anderston,
S PE CI FI C ATIO N S
Hardback, £30 Colour illustrations The Sunday Times
Hardback, £20 Darryl Moore, 978-1-910258-24-8 SPECIFICAT IONS
230 x 170mm, 208 pages throughout
235 x 187mm Two 16-page colour plate Hardback, £12.99
Garden Design Journal 978-1-910258-97-2 SP E CI F I CATI O NS
176 pages sections, b/w illustrations 198 x 129mm
Colour illustrations Paperback, £25
978-1-910258-20-0 SP EC I FI C ATI ON S throughout 128 pages
throughout 285 x 230mm, 296 pages
Colour illustrations Paperback original, £20 978-1-910258-98-9
Line drawings 978-1-910258-26-2
throughout 230 x 170mm, 224 pages
throughout Colour illustrations
978-1-910258-47-7 throughout
8 Colour and, b/w illustrations 9
throughoutBACKLIST BACKLIST
Gardens & Gardening
Led by the Modern Plant On Psyche's Paradise and Pots Potted Scent Magic Setting
Land Hunters Lawn Plenty for all seasons History notes from a the Scene
landscapes by adventures the garden at a rothschild how gardener a garden design
TOM HARRIS
kim wilkie in pursuit of plaz metaxu family garden houseplants ISABEL BANNERMAN masterclass
extraordinary ‘Packed with all the took over from repton to
‘A revelatory story ALASDAIR FORBES MARY KEEN FOREWORD BY
plants practical advice and our homes the modern age
of how landscapes PHOTOGRAPHS BY
inspiration you need RICHARD E GRANT
SANDY PRIMROSE ‘The ideal introduction CATHERINE GEORGE CARTER
in human hands can TOM HATTON to create stunning
and companion to a HORWOOD ‘Part diary and part
become inhabited SPECIAL PHOTOGRAPHY BY
‘An incredibly garden that is emerging ‘Exceptional.’ container plant practical guide to
works of art, written ‘One of my favourite perfumed plants, MARIANNE MAJERUS
thorough and bang- as highly significant in Anna Pavord, The Garden displays . . . this
by one of the most up-to-date account of an international context. contemporary look books on gardening. ‘Sheer originality,
illustrated with
gifted of today’s contemporary field It is copiously filled with ‘Gloriously illustrated.’ at container planting It’s a story of potted verve, wit and
[the author's] own
landscape architects.’ botany and horticulture. Forbes’s own evocative Woman and Home will encourage many plants from the bustle photographs, it is invention burst from
Sir David Attenborough It is a great read . . . to try something new of Covent Garden the images on these
photographs, while the ‘Packed with a dream of a book,
written in a fresh, text is a deeply argued, and have some fun.’ in the 17th century wandering off down pages. The author
practical information
‘If you want to make conversational style. scholarly tour de force, Gardens Illustrated to the Instagram age scented pathways of modestly tells us
and guidance.’
a landmark, do not Hunt down this replete with references via the Titanic (yes) about Repton - but it
Ths Daily Telegraph ‘Brilliant . . . inspired memories, moods and
grow gentians. Get botanical gem of a book to philosophy, painting, and Dr Hessayon, but moments past.’ is Carter from whom
Wilkie to shape for yourself before it ‘The book gives a . . . Page after page of Horwood’s cleverness The Sunday Times
poetry and psychology. we learn. He gives
the myths of your sells out.’ rare and profound glorious photographs is to use the story to
As such it stands as an Gardening Book of the the amateur designer
dreams.’ The Garden understanding of really make this book give wider insights
admirable riposte and Year 2019 the confidence to
Robin Lane Fox, the sophistication and help to inspire into how we live, and,
‘A thoroughly researched corrective to all those experiment with
Financial Times of gardening at its readers to be bold indeed, how cities S P E CI F I CATI O NS
and well-written book from other disciplines ornament and be bold
most masterly . . . in their choice of have changed over Hardback, £30
SPE C I FI C ATIO N S . . . it is entertaining, who still insist on 270 x 210mm with evergreen shapes.’
Inspiring.’ Kim plant, containers and time.’
Hardback, £35 condescending to garden- 256 pages Tim Richardson,
informative, educational arrangements.’
230 x 170mm, 216 pages making as little more Wilkie, House & Garden Christopher Woodward, 978-1-910258-49-1 Gardens Illustrated
978-1-910258-52-1 and a joy to read.’ Country Smallholding Director, Garden Colour illustrations
Colour and b/w Reckless Gardener than a hobby or pastime.’ SPECIFICAT IONS
Museum, London throughout S P E CI F I CATI O NS
illustrations throughout Tim Richardson, Paperback, £30 SPECIFICAT IONS
Hardback, £50
S P EC I FI C ATI ON S The Sunday Telegraph 270 x 210mm, 304 pages Hardback, £20 SP E CI F I CATI O NS 270 x 210mm
Hardback, £30 978-1-910258-75-0 235 x 200mm, 176 pages Paperback, £9.99 208 pages
235 x 156mm, 272 pages SP E C I FI C ATIONS Colour illustrations 978-1-910258-79-8 198 x 129mm, 192 pages 978-1-910258-59-0
978-1-910258-78-1 Hardback, £50 throughout, Colour illustrations 978-1-910258-94-1 Colour illustrations
Colour illustrations 320 x 220mm, 304 pages seven double gatefolds throughout 15 b/w illustrations throughout
throughout 978-1-910258-81-1 Rights sold: German Rights sold: French
Colour illustrations
10 throughout 11BACKLIST BACKLIST
Gardens & Gardening Architecture & Interiors
Topiary, Woburn You Should After the Fire Bridges Henbury New York On the
Knots and Abbey Have Been london churches spanning an extraordinary places to write Fringe
Parterres the park Here in the age of wren, the world house home about a life in
& gardens Last Week hooke, hawksmoor decorating
WINNER, EUROPEAN MARCUS BINNEY JEREMY MUSSON POLLY DEVLIN
GARDEN BOOK OF THE and gibbs
YEAR, 2018 KEIR DAVIDSON sharp cuttings ‘Binney's examples FOREWORD BY PHOTOGRAPHS BY IMOGEN TAYLOR
from a garden ANGELO HORNAK HRH THE PRINCE ANNIE SCHLECHTER
SPECIAL PHOTOGRAPHY are drawn from
‘Demonstrates that writer THE RT
FOREWORD BY OF WALES ‘As sharp as an
BY BRIDGET DAVEY around the world
this most ancient REVD STEPHEN PLATTEN upholsterer's tack,
‘Features styles for
INTRODUCTION BY TIM RICHARDSON and across the INTRODUCTION BY
Miss Taylor worked
of traditions is GILLY ZIANI DE
every taste, from the
THE DUCHESS OF ‘For those who may not centuries, from at Colefax for 50
alive and kicking, ‘A collection of lively FERRANTI
totally bonkers to the
BEDFORD wish to negotiate the the works of years and offers a
reinterpreted by articles by one of the restrained and elegant.’
contemporary garden ‘The best most intelligent irregular opening hours, ancient masons and ‘This beautiful book The Times rare account of a
and landscape country-house garden critics writing Angelo Hornak’s After medieval carpenters pays splendid tribute lost world . . . As
the Fire transports you to projects by to the finest late ‘Outstandingly rare
designers to look as history published today. Richardson is well as unflagging
relevant today as it in recent years.’ not afraid to prod, to each of the surviving contemporary 20th-century Classical and precious.’ aperçus, [she] gives
was to the Romans. John Martin Robinson, tease and question Wren churches with architects and house in England . . . a The Guardian a warm account of
You will be reaching Country Life received opinion.’ masterly photographs of engineers.’ fascinating record of a ‘Invites you into the the craftspeople she
for those shears.’ The Sunday Times their best perspectives Architecture Today unique building, as well homes of more than two worked with, many of
S P E C I FI C ATI ON S and sharp close-ups of as a visual treat.’
The Sunday Times dozen New Yorkers who whose intricate trades
Hardback, £40 ‘The most their salient details
SPECIFICAT IONS
270 x 210mm Hardback, £40 John Martin Robinson, live all over the city. are now lost. Here is
‘Every page brings a independent, . . . This handsome 245 x 300mm Country Life a woman with a great
240 pages There are maximalists
new wonder.’ 978-1-910258-13-2 thoughtful, book captures the visual 256 pages appetite for life.’
‘Beautifully illustrated, and traditionalists, a
Anna Pavord, Colour illustrations challenging gardening drama at the heart of 978-1-910258-17-0
Memphis mecca in Country Life
House & Garden throughout critic writing now. Colour illustrations full of wonderful
what proved to be an
Every article here unparalleled flowering of
throughout photography, drawings, Chelsea − even a SP E CI F I CATI O NS
SPE C I FI C ATIO N S Rights sold: letters and portraits.’ Baptist church-cum- Hardback, £50
Hardback, £50 makes entertaining English architecture . . . a Japanese home in Harlem.’
Apollo 285 x 230mm
270 x 210mm reading as well as being dizzy kaleidoscopic treat.’ Isabel Wilkinson, 224 pages
288 pages well worth pondering.’ World of Interiors 978-1-910258-77-4
SP E CI F I CATI O NS The New York Times
978-1-910258-18-7 Colour illustrations
Evening Standard Hardback, £50
Colour illustrations SPECIFICAT IONS throughout
305 x 229mm, 240 pages S P E CI F I CATI O NS
throughout Hardback, £50
SP EC I FI C ATI ONS 978-1-910258-11-8 Hardback, £40
Rights sold: French, Paperback, £9.99 270 x 210mm, 384 pages Colour and b/w illustrations 305 x 229mm, 224 pages
German 198 x 129mm 978-1-910258-08-8 throughout 978-1-910258-07-1
224 pages Colour illustrations Colour illustrations throughout
978-1-910258-86-6 throughout Rights sold: US & Canada
12 13BACKLIST BACKLIST
Biography
Architecture & Interiors Art & Craft & Memoir
Osbert Restoration Colour Freestyle Old Masters Portrait Rex Whistler: Ancestors in
Lancaster's Stories Confident Embroidery Rock Revolution Inspirations the Attic
Cartoons, patina and paint Stitching on Wool how to look inspiration, including: including:
Columns and in old london how to create how to create at art with tips & family, friendships, my great-
Curlicues houses beautiful your own children techniques landscapes; grandmother's
colour palettes embroidered MARIA- for creating love & war book of ferns;
including: PHILIPPA STOCKLEY
wool appliqué CHRISTINA SAYN- portraits my aunt's book of
pillar to post PHOTOGRAPHS BY KAREN BARBÉ HUGH AND silent actors
designs WITTGENSTEIN FROM THE ARTISTS MIRABEL CECIL
homes sweet homes CHARLIE HOPKINSON
‘It is a pleasure to NOTTEBOHM OF JULIA KAY'S SIR MICHAEL HOLROYD
drayneflete KARIN DERLAND
‘A celebration of the review this fabulous PORTRAIT PARTY S P E CI F I CATI O NS
revealed FOREWORD BY
‘Packed with gorgeously Hardback boxed set, £30 ‘Offered almost as
poetry of decay and the new book . . . GARY TINTEROW EDITED BY
OSBERT LANCASTER detailed and imaginative 230 x 180mm, 176 pages, religious texts, one is
practical responsibilities the analysis of color JULIA L. KAY 978-1-910258-42-2
embroidery, this book ‘Would be a a beautifully pressed
‘Lancaster’s delightfully of looking after period palettes and how to Illustrated throughout
shows how to go about wonderful prelude to ‘As a visual feast, collection of ferns
sardonic spoof buildings. Charlie develop them is very
creating your own a museum visit or a it offers an endless made by his great-
architectural histories Hopkinson’s pictures inspiring. I highly
designs using applique rainy-day excursion source of inspiration.’ grandmother in India in
are handsomely are a joy; the writing is recommend this
and embroidery on wool in itself.’ Paint & Draw the mid-19th century;
republished by the equally captivating.’ book for all levels of
stitchers.’ felt . . . Includes step- The Wall Street Journal the second is a series of
Pimpernel Press.’ The Sunday Times S P E CI F I CATI O NS
by-step projects to build Paperback original photographs of silent-
The Spectator feelingstitchy.com SPECIFICAT IONS
‘Seduces on so many up your confidence Paperback, £9.99 £18.99, 240 x 187mm movie stars gathered
‘Contains pretty levels . . . Yet this is not SP E C I FI CAT IONS 275 x 215mm 224 pages by his aunt Yolanda in
before launching your
solely a picture book. Paperback original 112 pages 978-1-910258-50-7 the 1920s. Through
much everything you own designs to create
£16.99, 254 x 203mm 978-1-910258-95-8 Colour illustrations
need to know about [Stockley's] relaxed personalised works throughout these images Holroyd
128 pages Colour illustrations
architecture.’ text combines a portrait unravels the lives, tragic
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Biography & Memoir Fiction History
Hold the A Lesson in Thinking Virginia Writing The House Black Lily At Home
Front Page! Art & Life the Plant Woolf at Home in Little PHILIPPA STOCKLEY with
the wit and the colourful the watercolour Home selected essays Chelsea the Soanes
wisdom of anne world of drawings of FINALIST FOR THE PEOPLE'S
upstairs,
HILARY MACASKILL POLLY DEVLIN CLARE HASTINGS BOOK PRIZE, 2019/20
scott-james cedric morris rebecca john downstairs in
& arthur FOREWORD BY FOREWORD BY
‘This beguiling ‘A deliciously 19th century
CLARE HASTINGS REBECCA JOHN CECIL WOOLF JOAN BAKEWELL
lett-haines little book mixes satisfying read . . . london
‘A selection of Scott- HUGH ST. CLAIR ‘. . . remarkable work. ‘A confident, well- ‘Eloquent and fact and fiction to one to be gobbled
SUSAN PALMER
James’s articles The book is a thing written book with a open-minded, recreate the life of up greedily.’
FOREWORD BY
(many of them of beauty in itself whiff of that seductive Writing Home a house in Chelsea Country Life WINNER, ACE BEST
PHILIP MOULD GENERAL PUBLICATION
hilarious, all of them and the watercolours “spirit of place”.’ stands testimony – the house in AWARD, 2017
sprucely professional) ‘Enjoyably passionate as well ‘This engrossing,
The Times Literary to a life well-lived. which the author
interspersed with revealing.’ as delicate . . . so multi-layered account ‘. . . a fascinating
Supplement It champions lives – from 1873 to
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feminism as “The F the 1920s. Perfect
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compelling window it exemplifies the for aunts, and
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on to the British virtues of family and everyone else really.’
AN Wilson, that prints them on of domestic detail, the themes of race, 19th century.’
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Richard Ingrams S P E C I FI C ATI ON S brother-in-law SP E CI F I CATI O NS
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16 17BACKLIST BACKLIST
History Travel Gift Wrapping paper books
Sir John Seeking Seeking Riding Dachshunds Maps Japanese Robert
Soane's Chicago New York Route 94 the long and the FROM THE BRITISH Woodblock Adam
Greatest the stories the stories an accidental short of them LIBRARY Prints Designs
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FROM GLASGOW FROM SIR JOHN
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of seti i loves dachshunds’
city – one of manhattan – britain
JOHN H. TAYLOR & building at one building at Aaron Bertelsen on Instagram
HELEN DORY DAVID MCKIE
a time a time
In this lighthearted book
TOM MILLER TOM MILLER ‘His writing has a
WINNER, ACE BEST Caroline Donald shares
GENERAL PUBLICATION quality of restful
AWARD, 2018 ‘Meticulously ‘Packed with drawings her experience of life
immediacy:
researched, profusely and photographs, as with dachshunds: what to
Sir John Soane's Greatest unhurried, curious,
illustrated, engagingly well as historical and look for, how to train and
Treasure tells the story and totally absorbed.
presented, richly architectural facts, it’s how to look after them.
of one of the most Rich in anecdote,
detailed, and written what we learn about Included too are reports
important antiquities aesthetically
with a completely New Yorkers, from from dachsy homes:
ever found in Egypt sensitive, historically
engaging narrative the rich and famous to ranging from Crusoe the
– the beautiful calcite accurate, and
storytelling the poor and humble, Celebrity Dachshund in
sarcophagus of the wonderfully witty.’
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pharaoh Seti I. The Tablet
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18 19P U B L I S H I N G PA R T N E R S P U B L I S H I N G PA R T N E R S
Finch Sir John Soane's Museum
Publishing Simon J Lycett
The Romance of Ruins
the search for ancient ionia – 1764
EDITED BY IAN JENKINS
ESSAYS BY PHILIP MANSEL, JASON M KELLY,
ALASTAIR BLANSHARD, KIM SLOAN,
J LESLEY FITTON, ROBERT K PITT,
TUĞBA TANYERI-ERDEMIR
A London The Flower People of CATALOGUE BY CELESTE FARGE IAN JENKINS is Senior Curator
Floral Market Year the Flower in the Department of Greece and
an illustrated 12 months at market Rome at the British Museum. PHILIP
Published to accompany the exhibition of the same MANSEL is a historian of courts and
guide new covent a year at new name at Sir John Soane’s Museum from March to cities, and of France and the Ottoman
garden flower covent garden Empire. JASON M KELLY is Director
NATASHA May 2021.
market flower market of the IUPUI Art and Humanities
GOODFELLOW
SIMON LYCETT Institute and Professor of History in the
ILLUSTRATIONS BY
SIMON LYCETT The exhibition and book focus on the Society of Indiana University School of Liberal Arts
CLOVER ROBIN PHOTOGRAPHY BY PHOTOGRAPHY BY Dilettantis’ 1764 expedition to ancient Greek cities that at IUPUI. AL ASTAIR BL ANSHARD
MICHELLE GARRETT is the Paul Eliadis Professor of Classics
MICHELLE GARRETT were founded on the coast of Western Anatolia (modern and Ancient History at the University
Over eighty-five
addresses of interest, This unique record A fascinating
Turkey). This region was known to the ancients as of Queensland, Australia. KIM SLOAN
of a year at New Ionia and was part of the Greek world from the 8th is curator of British Drawings and
from parks, markets photographic record Watercolours before 1880 and Francis
and nurseries to secret Covent Garden of a disappearing century BC. Although ruined in antiquity, the beauty Finlay Curator of the Enlightenment
gardens, florists Flower Market world, with and fame of the Ionian cities lived on in the writings of Gallery at the British Museum. J LESLEY
and flower schools. includes images commentary by ancient commentators such as Herodotus and Strabo. FITTON is former Keeper of the
Presented in an of many beautiful Department of Greece and Rome at
Simon Lycett The powerful and poetic images here are by the brilliant the British Museum. ROBERT PITT
attractive slipcase and arrangements of and the market young artist William Pars. Begun on the expedition and is a Greek historian and epigrapher of
divided by area, this seasonal flowers and workers themselves, the Classical and Hellenistic periods
later worked up in the studio, they record the classical
beautifully illustrated, foliage sourced from published to mark and a faculty member of College Year in
ruins encountered on the expedition, and also the Athens. TUǦBA TANYERI-ERDEMIR
pocket-size map is the Market, and the latest chapter
practical step-by-step living landscape - its flora and fauna, and the customs, is a Research Associate at the
clear and easy to use in Covent Garden
manners and dress of the people. They are a companion Department of Anthropology, University
and will appeal to art- descriptions of floral Market's 400-year of Pittsburgh. CELESTE FARGE is
lovers, garden-lovers decorations for history.
to the published diary account of the expedition by the curator in the Department of Greece
and city-lovers alike. each month. antiquary Richard Chandler. This remarkable set of and Rome at the British Museum.
SP E C I FICAT IONS pictorial documents has never been fully published in
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S PE CI FI C ATIO N S
Fold-out map in slipcase Hardback, £30 230 x 170mm, 128 pages spite of their beauty and the Enlightenment themes of March 2021
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catalogue of works in the exhibition. throughout
20 21P U B L I S H I N G PA R T N E R S P U B L I S H I N G PA R T N E R S
Sir John Soane's Museum
Sir John Soane Medal Soane Medal Soane Medal The Return Eric Parry Hogarth, Langlands
Soane's Lecture 2017 Lecture 2018 Lecture 2019 of the Past drawing Place and & Bell
Museum: RAFAEL MONEO – From – The conversations ERIC PARRY, OWEN Progress degrees of
A Complete Soane to Unfinished on HOPKINS & DAVID EDITED BY truth
In recognition of his postmodernism
Description achievements as an
the Strip Modern LEATHERBARROW DAVID BINDMAN BEN LANGLANDS &
Project at OWEN HOPKINS & WITH CONTRIBUTIONS BY NIKKI BELL
13TH EDITION architect, educator DENISE A dialogue between
SCOTT-BROWN the End of ERIN MCKELLAR DAVID BINDMAN, EDITED BY
PREFACE BY and writer, Rafael Parry and Owen
BRUCE BOUCHER, OWEN HOPKINS
BRUCE BOUCHER Moneo was awarded Denise Scott-Brown’s Modernity, Features interviews Hopkins, Senior FRÉDÉRIC OGÉE,
A comprehensive
the inaugural Soane 2018 Soane Medal Tectonic with eight figures Curator at Sir John JACQUELINE RIDING This full-colour book
Medal in 2017. This is lecture - a narrated Form and associated with Soane’s Museum, presents an array of
description of Sir London, which was A highly illustrated work by Langlands
an annual award given history of her the Space postmodernism,
John Soane's Museum the venue for an journey through & Bell ranging from
by Sir John Soane’s reflecting on the
in London's Lincoln's
Museum to architects
early life and the of Public inspiration, ideas and exhibition of Parry’s Hogarth’s series their Traces of Living
Inn Fields. This experiences that Appearance paintings and
who have made a major shaped her later influence of a pivotal drawings in 2019. (first made in 1986)
guide has been in engravings, published to a major new work
contribution to practice, practice, illustrated KENNETH FRAMPTON moment in British
print since 1955 and is S P E CI F I CATI O NS to coincide with a major conceived for Soane’s
education and theory, by her own architecture. Paperback original, £9.95
now in its thirteenth Kenneth Frampton’s Hogarth exhibition
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broadened and enriched Bain, Jeremy Dixon, 978-1-999693-20-6 Room that explores
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