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	The Cook and the Gardener (Paperback) by Amanda Hesser (Author) A beautiful paperback edition of this bestselling Radio 4 Book of the Week. The ancient link between the gardener and the cook is at the heart of this remarkably evocative cookbook in which Amanda Hesser relates the story of a year she spent as a cook in a seventeenth-century chateau in Burgundy and her relationship with Monsieur Milbert, the charmingly sly peasant caretaker of the chateau's kitchen gardens. A rare culinary and literary experience.COVER PRICE £12.99 ISBN: 9781904573395 Price: £11.69


The Day Job: Adventures of a Jobbing Gardener (Paperback) by Mark Wallington (Author) Mark Wallington has a dream. He is going to change the face of British comedy. Unfortunately for the residents of north London, he's going to finance this dream by becoming a gardener. The result is "The Day Job", an account of a year spent working in other people's gardens: people like Mrs Fleming, who is convinced there is buried treasure in the bottom bed; Mr Walters, who is trying to create a fascist state policed by gnomes in his well-guarded plot in Gospel Oak; Mrs Glover, who is probably the most attractive women living in Britain; and poor Mr Nugent, who likes to save his urine in jam jars, and pour it over his compost. Over four seasons Wallington crosses Hampstead Heath from job to job. He survives brushes with the evil contract gardeners, who keep trying to knock him off his bicycle. He strives to impress literary agent Herman Gapp who might represent him - depending on what sort of job he does on Gapp's Alpine Terrace. He even finds time to fall for a housecleaner-cum-actor named Helen, as he becomes part of a strange band of artistes, each with a day job of their own, all waiting for that first break. This is the story of long nights spent in the back room of a pub trying to write unsolicited scripts, and of much longer days spent trying to understand the British and their strange obsession with gardening. isbn: 0099472678 Price: £7.99


	An Englishman's Home: The Adventures of an Eccentric Gardener (Hardcover) by Tom Hart Dyke (Author) Tom Hart Dyke has a bit of a thing about plants. You might call it an obsession. You might call him certifiable, in fact. But it's a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a large ramshackle country estate and an obsession with plant collecting could want for only one thing - in Tom's case it's a walled garden containing examples of plants collected from every corner of the globe. Tom's infectious enthusiasm for anything with chlorophyll in it and the hugely ambitious World Garden project he has undertaken at his family home, Lullingstone Castle, in Kent are currently being documented in a 12-part television series for BBC 2. The first six parts ("Save Lullingstone Castle") were shown in spring 2006, and the second six episodes ("Return to Lullingstone Castle") will go out in spring 2007 to coincide with publication. Tom's attempts to set up the World Garden aren't exactly straightforward. For example, you might imagine that the easiest way to start preparing the ground inside the walled Elizabethan garden, which he transforms into the main part of the world garden would be to enlist the help of a few people and a lot of hard digging. Well not for Tom, who enlists instead two large pigs, who do indeed do a great job of turning over the earth and fertilising it with great organic manure. But the problem is that they keep escaping into the Hart Dyke family burial plot next door where they start digging up Tom's ancestors... The point of the WorldGarden is to both to bring together a truly amazing collection of plants from every continent and so to show the global origins of the plants we all grow in our gardens. It's already establishing itself as a tourist attraction of some note as well as an educational resource. This is a book for all those who bought Tim Smit's "Lost Gardens of Heligan". It's stuffed full of fascinating botanical information as well as the story of Tom's hapless struggle to overcome huge logistical nightmares. It's a riveting, hilarious story of English eccentricity in full bloom. COVER PRICE £18.99 ISBN: 9780593056981 Price: £17.10


The Ingenious Mr.Fairchild: The Forgotten Father of the Flower Garden (Hardcover) by Michael Leapman (Author) Thomas Fairchild shook the horticultural world by revealing sexual reproduction in plants. This is a biography dedicated to the life and work of a man who could not help interferring with natural design, and as a result has given us the huge variety of flowers in our parks and gardens today. ISBN: 9780747273592 Price: £4.99


	Geoffrey Jellicoe: The Studies of a Landscape Designer Over 80 Years: "Studies in Landscape Design" v. 3 (Studies of a Landscape Designer Over 80 Years) (Hardcover) by Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe This is a celebrated body of work, long out of print. It is based on lectures presented internationally to European and American professional societies but intended as a complete survey. The book provides comprehensive coverage of major aspects of modern landscape philosophy, design and practice and is illustrated throughout with photographs, original pictures and drawings. COVER PRICE £35.00 Price: £12.99


Edwin Lutyens (Lifelines) (Paperback) by Michael Barker (Author) Ned Lutyens was England's most prolific architect since Sir Christopher Wren, and his work still enhances our lives, from the fountains of Trafalgar Square and the Cenotaph in Whitehall, to the last 'castle' built in Britain and numerous country houses among his 600 commissions. His collaboration with the garden designer Gertrude Jekyll at places such as Hestercombe in Somerset and Lindisfarne Castle can still be enjoyed by vistiors and the memorials he designed to commemorate the dead of the First World War impress all who tour the battlefields of northern France. Of these, Thiepval Memorial to the Missing is the most awesome. Price: £4.99


	Growing Out of Trouble (Hardcover) by Montagu Don Monty Don's own experience of recovering from depression and maintaining his sanity through gardening led him to set up an unusual project. In 2005 he began working with a group of disaffected young people who had never had the opportunity to work with the land, never been aware of the seasons and never eaten proper food -- let alone grown it or shared it with others. Would this experience do more to make them good citizens than the might and weight of the penal system? Looking after angry, disturbed people who resent you and almost everything else in their world proved much harder. Monty Don's extraordinarily powerful book is not only a moving and dramatic account of the work of the project but also a passionate plea for us to recognize some painful truths about modern rural.life. isbn: 034089847x Price: £14.99


A Passion for Plants: Life and Vision of Ghillean Prance, Director of Kew Gardens (Paperback) by Clive Langmead A biography of Ghillean Prance, Director of Kew Gardens, combining travel and adventure with scientific research and a range of ecological issues. isbn: 1900347768 Price: £9.95


	The Seeds of Wealth (Paperback) by Henry Hobhouse (Author) Following "Seeds of Change", with its investigation of the seminal role of plants in human social and economic history, Henry Hobhouse here focuses on the economic consequences of the exploitation of rubber, timber, tobacco and the wine grape - each of which enormously increased the wealth of those who dealt in them, created great new industries and changed the course of history. Ancient Rome's monopoly on wine production had huge economic and hygienic importance. Without rubber, there would have been no development of cars, buses and trucks, bicycles, waterproof clothing or even tennis and condoms. Tobacco has largely been condemned for its effects on health and its true role in history has been ignored. Tobacco has often been used in place of currency and its growth in Virginia supported a colony that produced much of the talent that made American independence possible. Timber shortages led the British Royal Navy to become dependent on American timber. The dearth of timber drove English coal mines deep, which led to the steam pumps, steam engines and, ultimately, the Industrial Revolution. This book presents the effect of minutiae on the great waves of history.COVER PRICE £9.99 isbn: 9780330488129 Price: £9.00


Strange Blooms: The Curious Lives and Adventures of the John Tradescants (Hardcover) by Jennifer Potter In seventeenth-century Britain, a new breed of 'curious' gardeners were pushing at the frontiers of knowledge and new plants were stealing into Europe from East and West. The man responsible for introducing many of the plants to Britain at that time was John Tradescant, whose passion for collecting sent him as far as Russian Archangel, the pirate strongholds of North Africa and the battlefields of France. Tradescant's only son John was his apprentice. "Strange Blooms" tells the Tradescants' story - as gardeners, as collectors and above all as exemplars of an age that began in wonder and ended with the dawning of science. Meticulously researched and vividly evoking the drama of their lives, Jennifer Potter's book takes its readers to the edge of an expanding universe. "Strange Blooms" is a magnificent pleasure for gardeners and non-gardeners alike. isbn: 1843543346 Price: £19.99


	Working with the Curlew: A Farmhand's Life (Paperback) by Trevor Robinson (Author) In "Working with the Curlew" Trevor Robinson shares his enthusiasm and joy for his work as a shepherd on the moor at Great Whernside in Yorkshire and later as a farmhand near Leominster in Hereford. He celebrates the intricate details of traditional farm life: selling rabbits at tuppence each, the village hop, sheep shearing, lambing, shire horses, haymaking, the warm welcome taste of tea on a snow-bound moor, muck spreading, cheese and bread making, trout-tickling, and killing the pig - "a quiet job well done". During one severe Yorkshire winter 600 sheep were lost, and he had to leave his job - 'the call of the curlew was still over two months away, when it came I was not there to hear it'. His new job in Herefordshire brought different skills: hedge laying, ploughing matches, haymaking, chain harrowing and crop rotation, and inevitably, the arrival of tractor and combine harvester. This book is an intimate and evocative account of an era before factory farming, when farmers worked closely with nature and the rhythm of the seasons, a smallholding could sustain a family, and there were enough small farms for a shepherd to climb the ladder to ownership. cover price £7.95 ISBN: 9781903998342 Price: £7.20

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