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Cover illustration: from Potted History (see page 4)NEW TITLE
On Psyche’s Lawn
the gardens at plaz metaxu
ALASDAIR FORBES
‘Probably the most significant new garden to have been
made in Britain in recent decades.’
Tim Richardson
Alasdair Forbes has been developing his lovely and
innovative garden, Plaz Metaxu, in Devon, for the Born in London, AL ASDAIR
past thirty years. The thirty-two acre garden has been FORBES graduated with an
honours history degree from
internationally acclaimed both as an unusually ambitious McGill University, in Montreal,
contemporary example of the making of place and for its before completing an MA
poetic and psychological insights. in the history of art at the
Courtauld Institute. He has
Trained as an art historian, Alasdair always wanted worked in Paris and Vancouver,
his garden to be open to the worlds of myth, literature and lived for short periods in
and the other arts, while remaining keenly aware of the India and Italy. Before moving
to Devon, he lived and taught
strengths, vulnerabilities and delights a garden has to in London. For the last thirty
offer in its own right. He has been the only full-time years he has been preoccupied
gardener at Plaz Metaxu from its beginning until the with creating and looking after
his garden. He is currently
present day, though invaluable part-time assistance has preparing a series of lectures
been provided by Cyril Harris (who is not a professional on the meaning of place to be
gardener either). The whole garden, with its lawns and given at Exeter University.
fritillary meadows and hedges, its bowers, groves and
woods, its lake and its courtyards, its ‘carousel beds’,
and its landscaped walks to far horizons, is entirely the
creation of these two men.
This beautiful, richly illustrated book is Alasdair’s
own account of how and why the garden was made.
He writes of its many inspirations, from Psyche herself
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to poets, painters and the mysterious paredros . . . not
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forgetting the valley landscape, with its noble precedent SP ECIFICAT ION S
at Studley Royal, and its wise mentors from the Far East. Hardback, £50
In everything he has done, Alasdair has been the pupil 320 x 220mm, 304 pages
of the spaces that surround him; his rare gift has been 978-1-910258-81-1
to become their ventriloquist, in finding out how they colour photographs
themselves want to ‘speak’. throughout
1NEW TITLE NEW TITLE
Dachshunds Thinking the Plant
the long and the short the watercolour drawings
of them of rebecca john
CAROLINE DONALD REBECCA JOHN
CAROLINE DONALD was ‘Nothing will turn a man's home into a castle more Rebecca John describes her journey towards becoming a
gardening editor of The Sunday
Times from 2000–2019. A
quickly than a dachshund.’ botanical painter. REBECCA JOHN is a
writer and editor with a Queen Victoria celebrated botanical painter
particular interest in the cross- whose work has been exhibited
Rebecca John was born into a family of painters, the widely in the UK and the US
pollination of the arts – both
high and domestic – she has
Dachshunds are everywhere. Walk down any fashionable most famous among them being her grandfather, and also in Italy and Japan.
also curated successful talks at metropolitan street today and you will be tripping over little Augustus John, and her great-aunt, Gwen John. And the Her work is represented
the Somerset outpost of the in the Fitzwilliam Museum,
sausages. They are the dog du jour: compact enough for city last thing she wanted was to become a painter herself. Cambridge, in the National
international art gallery Hauser
& Wirth and at Messum’s,
living yet feisty enough for a good country walk; cute but So how did this happen? Museum of Wales, Cardiff,
Wiltshire. Her first book, clever and independent. Advertising campaigns, aprons, In Thinking the Plant she traces the path that led to her and in private collections
The Generous Gardener, was worldwide. With Michael
Christmas decorations, Instagram accounts from Canada to beautiful botanical watercolours. She takes us through her Holroyd, she edited the letters
published by Pimpernel in 2018.
She lives in Somerset, under
Japan to Australia are all peppered with them. They have childhood – the cottage in the Cotswolds ‘where I first of her grandmother, Ida John,
the tutelage of her two beloved a universal appeal and come in two official sizes: standard became intensely aware of nature in its wild state’, her published in 2017 as The Good
dachshunds, Mitzi von Schnitzel Bohemian (Bloomsbury).
(between 7 kg and 14.5 kg) and miniature (under 5 kg), with grandfather’s home at Fryern Court in Hampshire and her
and Heidi Wirth.
lots of ‘unofficials’ in between; three types of coat: smooth, parents’ London house, both of them forever associated in
long-haired and wire-haired; and myriad variations of her mind with ‘growing things’; the Fine Jewellery course
colouring. By the writer's reckoning there are more than 150 where 'I learned to draw – and to concentrate on things
varieties that will pass muster with the UK Kennel Club. close up’; her days as a picture researcher and her growing
In this lighthearted look at them, Caroline Donald delight in botanical paintings.
shares her experience of life with a dachshund: what to look Rebecca John was in her thirties when she began to
for and what to avoid, how to train and how to look after ‘make tentative pencil studies of flowering plants’. In
them. Included too are reports from dachsy homes: from 1994 she enrolled for the new Botanical Painting course
Crusoe the Celebrity Dachshund in Canada, River the Mini at the Chelsea Physic Garden. Soon after, she began to
Dachshund on the Gold Coast in Australia, to the Dixter spend more time at her mother's cottage in Wales, where
dachshunds, and Willow, the elegant long-haired English she could work close to nature. She achieved recognition
cream belonging to Claire Waight Keller, artistic director of as an artist when she was in her fifties.
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Givenchy and designer of Meghan’s wedding dress. There Drawing on contemporary diary entries and notes,
September 2020 October 2020
are also stories of artists' dachshunds, including Picasso’s Thinking the Plant is a unique record, illustrated with S PE CI FI CAT I ONS
S PE CI FIC ATION S
Hardback, £9.99 Lump, Andy Warhol’s Archie and Amos and David Rebecca's exquisite watercolour drawings. Paperback original, £20
120 x 200mm, 96 pages Hockney’s Stanley and Boodgie; and royal dachshunds 230 x 170mm, 160 pages
978-1-910258-27-9 (Queen Victoria’s, the Kaiser’s, Princess Margaret’s). It 978-1-910258-31-6
Colour illustrations all goes to show that the dachshund is one of the world’s Colour illustrations
throughout favourite dogs. throughout
2 3NEW TITLE NEW TITLE
Potted History Thomas Hennell
how houseplants took over the land and the mind
our homes
JESSICA KILBURN
CATHERINE HORWOOD
Long-awaited, extensively illustrated biography of
Thomas Hennell, leading watercolourist, poet and war
The houseplant is undergoing a renaissance in popularity artist – contemporary and friend of Eric Ravilious and
– this revised and updated edition of Catherine Edward Bawden.
Horwood's fascinating history will delight lovers of
CATHERINE HORWOOD JESSICA KILBURN is
is a social historian with indoor plants. When John Rothenstein, Director of the Tate Gallery, a London-based artist,
a passion for plants and published the third volume of his Modern English Painters researcher and writer. She
gardens. Her most recent There is no shortage of books on how to look after in 1984, he subtitled it Hennell to Hockney. While David studied English Literature
book, Beth Chatto: A life with at Merton College, Oxford,
plants (Pimpernel, 2019), was houseplants but no one has shown us how and when and Hockney still needs no introduction, Thomas Hennell followed by History of Art
enthusiastically received. why these plants came to be in our homes. Catherine (1903–1945) has somehow slipped off the radar and at the University of Glasgow.
Her other books include: Horwood’s combination of social history, plant history and undoubtedly deserves to be more widely recognized today. Her work has appeared in the
Gardening Women: Their poetry journal 14 and Illustration
Stories from 1600 to the the history of interior design explains why, as Flanders and Thomas Hennell struggled with serious mental illness, magazine. She contributed to
Present (Virago, 2010), Rose Swann sang in the 1950s, ‘the garden’s full of furniture / was diagnosed as schizophrenic and spent the years the Oxford Dictionary of National
(Reaktion, 2018) and Keeping and the house is full of plants.’ from 1932 to 1935 in three different 'mental hospitals', Biography (OUP, 2004) and
Up Appearances: Fashion curated a permanent exhibition
and Class Between the Wars In this fascinating book we learned how potted plants the Maudsley Hospital among them. Edward Bawden on Lancelot ‘Capability’
(Sutton, 2005). She also writes are as much subject to fashion as pieces of furniture. For encouraged him to 'centre and compose' the experience Brown for his birthplace in
for newspapers and magazines the Victorians, it was the aspidistra in the front parlour, of schizophrenia by writing about it, and Hennell's Northumberland.
including The Times, the Daily
Mail, Gardens Illustrated and The the Edwardians loved a palm, and, for today’s millennials, remarkable book The Witnesses was published in 1938. THOMAS HENNELL was
English Garden, and is a popular no home is complete without the ubiquitous fiddle-leaf Eric Ravilious, too, helped Hennell with his recovery, born in Ridley, Kent in 1903. He
speaker on gardening history. fig. This book show that there is little new when it comes providing a series of wood engravings as illustrations for was educated in Broadstairs
and at Bradfield College,
to plants in the home. In the mid-eighteenth century, The Poems of Thomas Hennell (1936). Berkshire and studied art at
Wedgwood created a market for special bulb pots and in In 1939 Hennell wrote to the War Artists Advisory Regent Street Polytechnic. He
the 1950s, some of Terence Conran’s earliest designs were Committee offering his services. From 1943 he was a full- qualified as a teacher in 1928
and taught for some years at
for houseplant containers. time salaried war artist. He served in Europe and the Far the Kingswood School, Bath,
Across the ages, the choice of potted plants has been East and was in Java when he was captured by Indonesian and at the King’s School, Bruton
influenced by the layout of houses, the levels of dirt nationalist fighters in November 1945. He is presumed in Somerset.
and pollution and the equipment to hand. Now, with to have been killed soon after. At the time of his death,
so much choice, we seem happy to treat houseplants as Hennell was widely considered to be one of Britain's most
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disposables. This book gives a better understanding of significant watercolourists and notable cultural figures.
Publication October 2020
the miracles that were once achieved with indoor plant This beautifully written and extensively illustrated
October 2020 S PE CI FI CAT I ONS
S PE CI FIC ATION S
displays, inspired by Sir Hugh Platt’s 1608 vision of a biography is the fruit of the many years the author has Hardback, £60
Paperback, £9.99 garden ‘within doores’. spent researching Hennell's paintings and poems and 287 x 230mm, 320 pages
198 x 129mm, 192 pages This new edition has been revised with new material the memoirs of those who knew him best – and talking 978-1-910258-62-0
978-1-910258-94-1 added to bring the history of the houseplant and its to those who still remember him as a vivid presence in Colour and b/w illustrations
15 b/w illustrations massive explosion in popularity right up to date. their lives. throughout
4 5NEW TITLE NEW TITLE
Freestyle Embroidery Head Gardeners
on Wool AMBRA EDWARDS
how to create your own PHOTOGRAPHY BY CHARLIE HOPKINSON
embroidered wool
appliqué designs WINNER , INSPIR ATIONAL BOOK OF THE YEAR ,
GARDEN MEDIA GUILD AWARDS
KARIN DERLAND
K ARIN DERL AND is a In Freestyle Embroidery on Wool you will learn how This paperback edition includes two new head AMBR A EDWARDS is a journalist
passionate embroiderer who with a special interest in garden
has taken freestyle embroidery
to kickstart your creativity and become confident at gardeners, Fiona Dennis of Charleston Farmhouse, history, and the people, passions
on wool to new heights. She is making your own colourful and expressive designs using East Sussex and Stephen Griffith of Abbotsbury and often surprising stories that
self-taught and has experimented appliqué and embroidery on felted wool fabric. Subtropical Gardens, Dorset, as well as updates on lie behind our gardens. Three
and learned from her own times voted the Garden Media
experiences. Her studies at
Using her own detailed and imaginative embroidery all the gardeners featured in the hardback edition: Guild’s Garden Journalist of the
various art schools in drawing, as examples, Karin Derland teaches you how to go Ned Price, Fergus Garrett, Paul Pulford, Mick Year, she is a regular contributor
painting, sculpture and graphics, about creating your own designs using appliqué Evans, Beatrice Krehl, Troy Scott Smith, Lucille to the Guardian, Telegraph, Gardens
as well as her work with layouts Illustrated, Hortus and Country Living.
and printing, have trained her eye
and embroidery on wool felt. Karin shares plenty of Savin, Alistair Clark, Carol Sales, Andrew Woodall, Her most recent book is The Story
in colour, form and composition. instruction and helpful tips on making colour choices, Michael Walker, Martin Ogle, Jim Buckland and of the English Garden (Pavilion,
She gains her inspiration from how to apply ribbons, mirrors and other accessories, Sarah Wain. 2018). Ambra Edwards lives
both Swedish and Indian in Dorset.
traditions. Karin has over
making and using cardboard templates for appliqué
5500 followers on instagram shapes and how to combine different types of threads ‘Edwards is so skilled at unearthing the often CHARLIE HOPKINSON is a
(@karin_derland). and stitches for best effect. conflicting passions of her subjects you feel as though portrait and landscape photographer
specializing in the arts, gardening and
Sketches, diagrams and detailed photographs of you are eavesdropping on an intimate conversation, landscape. As well as being published
different types of embroidered pillows, cushions, cases illuminating person and place. Charlie Hopkinson’s in magazines and books worldwide,
and other items will give you a head start on creating eloquent photographs capture the essence of his work is exhibited at the National
Portrait Gallery. His most recent
and applying your own designs. their subjects. The book is also a covert plea for book is Restoration Stories: Patina
The book also offers plenty of inspirational images investment in gardeners at all levels.’ and Paint in Old London Houses,
through Karin’s colourful embroidery that draws on both Gardens Illustrated with Philippa Stockley, published
by Pimpernel in 2019. He lives
the Swedish and Indian traditions. These can be used as in London.
an inspirational library of ideas when creating your own ‘Rarely do garden books move me to tears, but
work. How simple or complex a piece becomes is up to certain pages in Head Gardeners were so moving
Publication you and your own level of experience and personal choice. that I found myself welling up. This is a book which Publication
June 2020 September 2020
Although the emphasis is on developing your own celebrates a gardener’s resilience and imagination as
S P E CI FIC ATIONS S PE CI FI CAT I ONS
Paperback, £16.99 expressive embroidery, some step-by-step projects are well as the traditional gardening virtues.’
Paperback, £20
225 x 180mm, 144 pages included to help build confidence before launching out Gillian Mawrey, Historic Gardens Review 230 x 170mm, 272 pages
978-1-910258-29-3 on your own. 978-1-910258-32-3
Colour illustrations This is wool appliqué embroidery at its best – free, ‘Visually appealing and revealing . . . brilliant.’ Colour and b/w illustrations
throughout beautiful and generous. Ursula Buchan, The Garden throughout
6 7BACKLIST 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 ‘Catherine Horwood's
plants for GRISELDA KERR LUCY BELLAMY NICOLA FERGUSON
MARTIN WOOD LLOYD & book is a triumph,
year-round ‘Thoroughly revised FERGUS GARRETT PHOTOGRAPHS BY CHARLES
WITH
interest ‘Ideal for novices . . . beautifully crafted by
and updated . . . ‘[A] delicious volume JASON INGRAM QUEST-RITSON
PHOTOGRAPHS BY
with a cheerful, an author who has
BETH CHATTO
[with] spectacularly by two leading JONATHAN BUCKLEY
encouraging tone, it thoroughly researched WINNER, PRACTICAL
‘Scholarly and
illuminating experts . . . this & CAROL CASSELDEN BOOK OF THE YEAR,
PHOTOGRAPHS BY contains a wealth of and understood her fascinating.’
illustrations, the book explains the GARDEN MEDIA GUILD
STEVEN WOOSTER information.’ subject. From start to AWARDS 2018 Rachel de Thame,
book sets out above processes and the ‘An inspiring
AFTERWORD BY book, factual and Daily Mail finish, this publication The Sunday Times
all to help you find very human side of ‘Bellamy makes
DAVID WARD enchanting. A highly gives us a real Gardening Book of the
both what individual a garden designer ‘Destined to become gardening simple,
recommended read.’ understanding of Beth's Year 2018
‘A masterclass in colours and what whose legacy a classic.’ expressive and joyful.
life. There is so much
garden design.’ combinations endures.’ The Cottage Gardener
Garden Design Journal Anyone can do it ‘Both erudite and
here to keep the reader
Francine Raymond, work best for you Country Life cheaply and with seductively readable,
SP ECIFICAT ION S gripped.’ Fergus Garrett,
throughout the year. ‘Maintenance little spare time.’
The Daily Telegraph Hardback, £30 comparable to
S PE C IFIC AT ION S becomes a creative Gardens Illustrated
In short, invaluable.’ 230 x 170mm Evening Standard the writings of
S PE CI FIC ATION S Hardback, £25 force in Griselda's
David Sexton, 240 pages ‘This fascinating, Christopher Lloyd
Hardback, £30 230 x 170mm ‘Both practical and
978-1-910258-03-3 hands and her tips
230 x 170mm Evening Standard 208 pages beautifully-written - and there simply
Colour illustrations are interesting and inspirational.’
232 pages 978-1-910258-05-7 biography paints a fond hasn’t been a book on
S PE C IFIC ATIONS throughout Country Living
978-1-910258-22-4 Colour illustrations well presented.’ and intimate portrait of
Hardback, £25 throughout the subject before.’
Colour illustrations Country Living
230 x 170mm one of the true greats of S PE CI FI CAT I ONS David Sexton,
throughout Hardback, £20
232 pages SP ECIFICAT I ONS the gardening world.’ Evening Standard
978-1-910258-02-6 235 x 187mm
Paperback original, The Irish Times
Colour illustrations 176 pages S PE CI FI CAT I ONS
£16.99, 245 x 187mm
throughout S PE CI FI CAT I ONS 978-1-910258-63-7 Hardback, £30
288 pages
Rights sold: French, Hardback, £30, Colour illustrations 230 x 170mm
978-1-910258-23-1
German, Simplified 230 x 170mm throughout 296 pages
40 colour illustrations
Chinese, US & Canada 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
8 9BACKLIST 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 bannerman
MICHELLE MASON
our health CLARE HASTINGS CAROLINE DONALD Garden CLEVE WEST
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
followers of floral prairie gardens OSBERT LANCASTER entertaining.’ PHOTOGRAPHS BY
ANDREW DUFF WALES
designers on There was a time when in england Matthew Biggs, VAL CORBETT ‘Essential reading
‘An enchanting read, ‘Makes an excellent
Instagram that this garden designer Cleve The Garden
RICHARD BISGROVE packed full of good FOREWORD BY for anyone interested present . . . Isabel’s
book will appeal. West questioned the CHARLES in garden design
‘I was completely advice and quirky ‘These very personal vividly coloured style
Every chapter has importance of his role QUEST-RITSON and history.’
riveted from the observations on the encounters, each is punctuated with
pages of impeccably as a garden designer. Tim Richardson,
very first page . . . joys – and occasional rendered in little ‘Lovingly penned, acute insight. The
styled, elegant images. Two things changed The Daily Telegraph
illuminating.’ heartache – of more than a thousand deeply personal and Bannermans describe
For anyone after a his mind: designing a
gardening.’ Daily Mail words, like miniature strangely moving, ‘This memoir is a and illustrate designs
“look book” of what garden for a hospital Gardens Illustrated
and adopting a vegan ‘An amusing read paintings, tell us so it speaks volumes book all landscape which bring the
flowers are available ‘Bisgrove deftly
lifestyle. The Garden . . . but there is also much…Enjoying about the intense designers should past into the present
from a local market establishes the
of Vegan charts Cleve’s plenty of practical my journey through relationship that a have on their without losing their
and how to combine links between those
journey from its advice. Comical her book I felt at the gardener gradually shelves.’ capacity to startle as
them, this will be a who have shaped
tentative beginnings illustrations by end that I’d been to a forges with the space The Garden well as delight.’
useful resource. If this our gardens and
to an understanding of Osbert Lancaster add grand garden party, that he/she tends.’ Robin Lane Fox,
encourages and entices landscapes on both S PE CI FI CAT I ONS
the restorative power of to the book's charm.’ catching up with a few The Irish Times Financial Times
a new generation to go sides of the Atlantic.’ Hardback, £40
gardens and a realization old pals and making 270 x 210mm
out and find flowers The English Garden House and Garden S PE CI FI CAT I ONS ‘Now here’s real glitz,
that some of the most several new friends.’ Paperback original, £30 280 pages
. . . it gets my vote.’ of a truly wonderful
destructive aspects of the S PE C IFICAT ION S
SP ECIFICAT ION S David Wheeler, Hortus 228 x 240mm 978-1-910258-93-4
Simon Lycett, The Garden Hardback, £12.99 Colour illustrations romantic kind.’
Anthropocene can be Hardback, £40 264 pages
230 x 170mm, 240 pages 198 x 129mm SP ECIFICAT I ONS 978-1-910258-58-3 throughout Stephen Anderston,
S PE CI FIC ATIONS mitigated or even fixed
978-1-910258-24-8 128 pages Hardback, £30 Colour illustrations The Sunday Times
Hardback, £20 978-1-910258-98-9 230 x 170mm, 208 pages
235 x 187mm by plants. Two 16-page colour plate throughout
sections, b/w illustrations Line drawings throughout 978-1-910258-97-2 S PE CI FI CAT I ONS
176 pages Colour illustrations
S PE C IFIC ATIONS
throughout Paperback, £25
978-1-910258-20-0 Paperback original, £20 throughout 285 x 230mm, 296 pages
Colour illustrations 230 x 170mm, 224 pages 978-1-910258-26-2
throughout 978-1-910258-47-7 Colour illustrations
Colour and, b/w illustrations throughout
10 throughout 11BACKLIST BACKLIST
Gardens & Gardening
Led by the Modern Plant Pots Paradise and Scent Magic Setting Topiary, Woburn
Land Hunters for all seasons Plenty notes from a the Scene Knots and Abbey
landscapes by adventures TOM HARRIS a rothschild gardener a garden design Parterres the park
kim wilkie in pursuit of family garden ISABEL BANNERMAN masterclass WINNER, EUROPEAN & gardens
extraordinary Gardening guru Tom from repton to GARDEN BOOK OF THE
‘A revelatory story MARY KEEN FOREWORD BY YEAR, 2018 KEIR DAVIDSON
plants Harris offers a visual the modern age
of how landscapes PHOTOGRAPHS BY RICHARD E GRANT SPECIAL PHOTOGRAPHY
SANDY PRIMROSE feast of container GEORGE CARTER ‘Demonstrates that
in human hands can TOM HATTON BY BRIDGET DAVEY
plantings, combined ‘Intoxicating; there’s this most ancient
become inhabited SPECIAL PHOTOGRAPHY BY
‘The term “plant hunter” with solid, practical ‘Exceptional.’ never been a book of traditions is INTRODUCTION BY
works of art, written MARIANNE MAJERUS THE DUCHESS OF
may seem straight advice born out of his Anna Pavord, The Garden quite like it . . . Any alive and kicking,
by one of the most out of a sepia-tinted years of experience. ‘Sheer originality, BEDFORD
gardener will come reinterpreted by
gifted of today’s Victorian photograph, Packed with practical ‘Gloriously illustrated.’ verve, wit and
away from this book contemporary garden ‘The best
landscape architects.’ but biologist Dr advice and ‘how-to’ Woman and Home invention burst from
full of excited plans and landscape country-house
Sir David Attenborough Sandy Primrose is illustrations, Pots the images on these
‘Packed with for planting but it is designers to look as history published
determined to prove for All Seasons also practical information no less enthralling pages. The author relevant today as it in recent years.’
‘If you want to make that contemporary includes page after modestly tells us
and guidance.’ for those who merely was to the Romans. John Martin Robinson,
a landmark, do not adventures to find page of photographs about Repton - but it
Ths Daily Telegraph enjoy gardens, those You will be reaching Country Life
grow gentians. Get new species are just as of glorious container is Carter from whom
who have sensuality for those shears.’
Wilkie to shape riveting and important.’ plantings to inspire ‘The book gives a we learn. He gives S PE CI FI CAT I ONS
in life, which is to The Sunday Times
Hardback, £40
the myths of your The Guardian readers to be bold rare and profound the amateur designer
say, this book would 270 x 210mm
dreams.’ understanding of ‘Every page brings a
in their choice of make a genuinely the confidence to 240 pages
Robin Lane Fox, ‘A thoroughly researched the sophistication new wonder.’
plants, containers and life-enhancing present experiment with 978-1-910258-13-2
Financial Times and well-written book of gardening at its Anna Pavord, Colour illustrations
arrangements. for almost anybody.’ ornament and be bold
. . . it is entertaining, most masterly . . . House & Garden throughout
S PE CI FIC ATIONS Evening Standard Best with evergreen shapes.’
S PE C IFICAT ION S Inspiring.’ Kim
Hardback, £35 informative, educational Gardening Books for 2019 Tim Richardson, S PE CI FI CAT I ONS
Hardback, £20
230 x 170mm, 216 pages and a joy to read.’ 235 x 200mm, 176 pages
Wilkie, House & Garden Gardens Illustrated Hardback, £50
978-1-910258-52-1 Reckless Gardener 978-1-910258-79-8 SP ECIFICAT I ONS 270 x 210mm
Colour and b/w SP ECIFICAT ION S Hardback, £30 S PE CI FI CAT I ONS 288 pages
Colour illustrations Paperback, £30
illustrations throughout throughout 270 x 210mm Hardback, £50 978-1-910258-18-7
SP E C IFIC ATIONS 270 x 210mm, 304 pages 256 pages 270 x 210mm Colour illustrations
Hardback, £30 Rights sold: French 978-1-910258-75-0 978-1-910258-49-1 208 pages throughout
235 x 156mm, 272 pages Colour illustrations Colour illustrations 978-1-910258-59-0 Rights sold: French,
978-1-910258-78-1 throughout, throughout Colour illustrations German
Colour illustrations seven double gatefolds throughout
throughout Rights sold: German
12 13BACKLIST BACKLIST
Gardens &
Gardening Architecture & Interiors
You Should After the Fire Bridges Henbury New York On the Osbert Restoration
Have Been london churches spanning an extraordinary places to write Fringe Lancaster's Stories
Here in the age of wren, the world house home about a life in Cartoons, patina and paint
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JEREMY MUSSON POLLY DEVLIN
and gibbs houses
sharp cuttings ‘Binney's examples FOREWORD BY PHOTOGRAPHS BY IMOGEN TAYLOR Curlicues
from a garden ANGELO HORNAK HRH THE PRINCE ANNIE SCHLECHTER PHILIPPA STOCKLEY
are drawn from ‘As sharp as an including:
writer FOREWORD BY THE RT OF WALES pillar to post PHOTOGRAPHS BY
around the world ‘Features styles for upholsterer's tack,
TIM RICHARDSON REVD STEPHEN PLATTEN INTRODUCTION BY homes sweet homes CHARLIE HOPKINSON
and across the every taste, from the Miss Taylor worked
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most intelligent The Times practical responsibilities
garden critics writing Angelo Hornak’s After medieval carpenters pays splendid tribute lost world . . . As ‘Lancaster’s delightfully of looking after period
the Fire transports you to projects by to the finest late ‘Outstandingly rare
today. Richardson is well as unflagging sardonic spoof buildings. Charlie
to each of the surviving contemporary 20th-century Classical and precious.’
not afraid to prod, aperçus, [she] gives architectural histories Hopkinson’s pictures
Wren churches with architects and The Guardian
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14 15BACKLIST BACKLIST
Art & Craft Biography & Memoir
Colour Old Masters Portrait Rex Whistler: Ancestors in Hold the A Lesson in Virginia
Confident Rock Revolution Inspirations the Attic Front Page! Art & Life Woolf at
Stitching how to look inspiration, including: including: the wit and the colourful Home
how to create at art with tips & family, friendships, my great- wisdom of anne world of
HILARY MACASKILL
beautiful children techniques landscapes; grandmother's scott-james cedric morris
colour palettes MARIA- for creating love & war book of ferns; & arthur FOREWORD BY
CLARE HASTINGS CECIL WOOLF
CHRISTINA SAYN- portraits my aunt's book of lett-haines
KAREN BARBÉ HUGH AND silent actors
WITTGENSTEIN FROM THE ARTISTS ‘Clare Hastings has HUGH ST. CLAIR ‘A confident, well-
MIRABEL CECIL
‘It is a pleasure to NOTTEBOHM OF JULIA KAY'S SIR MICHAEL HOLROYD compiled a warm written book with a
FOREWORD BY
review this fabulous FOREWORD BY PORTRAIT PARTY SP ECIFICAT ION S hearted tribute to her
PHILIP MOULD whiff of that seductive
Hardback boxed set, £30 ‘Offered almost as mother, the journalist
new book . . . GARY TINTEROW EDITED BY “spirit of place”.’
230 x 180mm, 176 pages, religious texts, one is ‘Enjoyably
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The Times Literary
palettes and how to Illustrated throughout Scott-James. Anne revealing.’ Supplement
wonderful prelude to ‘As a visual feast, collection of ferns was a beautiful and Gardens Illustrated
develop them is very
a museum visit or a it offers an endless made by his great- formidable woman, ‘Macaskill has written
inspiring. I highly ‘Provides a
rainy-day excursion source of inspiration.’ grandmother in India in a pioneer in the then a lively and lovingly
recommend this compelling window
in itself.’ Paint & Draw the mid-19th century; male-dominated world researched book, full
book for all levels of on to the British
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Biography
& Memoir Fiction History Travel
Writing The House Black Lily At Home Sir John Seeking Seeking Riding
Home in Little PHILIPPA STOCKLEY with Soane's Chicago New York Route 94
selected essays Chelsea the Soanes Greatest the stories the stories an accidental
FINALIST FOR THE PEOPLE'S
CLARE HASTINGS upstairs, Treasure behind the behind the journey
POLLY DEVLIN BOOK PRIZE, 2019/20
downstairs in architecture historic through
FOREWORD BY ‘A deliciously the sarcophagus architecture
‘This beguiling 19th century of seti i of the windy the story of
JOAN BAKEWELL little book mixes satisfying read . . . london city – one of manhattan – britain
one to be gobbled JOHN H. TAYLOR & building at one building at
‘Eloquent and fact and fiction to DAVID MCKIE
SUSAN PALMER HELEN DORY a time a time
open-minded, recreate the life of up greedily.’
a house in Chelsea Country Life WINNER, ACE BEST
WINNER, ACE BEST TOM MILLER TOM MILLER ‘His writing has a
Writing Home GENERAL PUBLICATION
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stands testimony ‘This engrossing, AWARD, 2017
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which the author immediacy:
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It champions of skulduggery and and detailed account illustrated, engagingly well as historical and
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everyone else really.’ ever found in Egypt sensitive, historically
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Allison Pearson, – the beautiful calcite accurate, and
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Harper's Bazaar sarcophagus of the wonderfully witty.’
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Wrapping paper books Finch
Publishing Simon J Lycett
Maps Japanese Robert
FROM THE BRITISH Woodblock Adam A London The Flower People of
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GOODFELLOW
SIMON LYCETT SIMON LYCETT
ILLUSTRATIONS BY
CLOVER ROBIN PHOTOGRAPHY BY PHOTOGRAPHY BY
MICHELLE GARRETT MICHELLE GARRETT
A beautifully
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Sir John Soane's Museum
Sir John Soane Medal Soane Medal Soane Medal The Return of Eric Parry Hogarth,
Soane's Lecture 2017 Lecture 2018 Lecture 2019 the Past drawing Place and
Museum: RAFAEL MONEO – From – The conversations on ERIC PARRY, OWEN Progress
A Complete Soane to Unfinished postmodernism HOPKINS & DAVID EDITED BY
In recognition of his
Description achievements as an
the Strip Modern OWEN HOPKINS & LEATHERBARROW DAVID BINDMAN
13TH EDITION architect, educator DENISE Project at ERIN MCKELLAR
A dialogue between WITH CONTRIBUTIONS BY
the End of DAVID BINDMAN,
PREFACE BY and writer, Rafael SCOTT-BROWN Parry and Owen
Features interviews BRUCE BOUCHER,
BRUCE BOUCHER Moneo was awarded Denise Scott Brown’s Modernity, with eight figures Hopkins, Senior FRÉDÉRIC OGÉE,
the inaugural Soane 2018 Soane Medal Tectonic associated with Curator at Sir John JACQUELINE RIDING
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of Parry’s drawings Hogarth’s series
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