Celebrates the diversity of flower forms and colours and presents a personal and practical guide to their uses in gardens great and small.

Andi Clevely advises on how to use a variety of flowering plants to best effect around the garden and throughout the year, and offers tips and professional insights to help enhance their performance, whether alone or in combination with congenial neighbours. Here is everything you need to know about how to enjoy flowers in your garden.

The first book to explore how and why flowers feature so extensively in the extraordinary art of the Renaissance, providing an unrivalled exploration of their beauty and significance.

In this classic work gardening guru Christopher Lloyd tells us all we need to about using leaves in the garden.

An anthology of literary extracts on the subject of food, cooking and dining.

This rich blend of history, anecdotal narrative, biographical portraits and illustrations evokes 500 years of imperial China through the story of its palace, the Forbidden City.

Pocket-size photographic guide to 12 walks in the ancient Forest of Bowland on land opened up to walkers by the Countryside and Rights of Way legislation. Published with Ramblers' Association.

Judith Paris, now middle aged, returns to the Lakes to deal with the bitter feud between two branches of the family, in the third of Walpole's Herries Chronicles.

An important new history on this central gardening theme, illustrated throughout with colour photography and archive illustrations.

A fourth collection of 80 ink drawings by A. Wainwright of scenes in the Lake District.