Delightful and clever selection: Bannerman's nose must spend much of its time dusted with pollen, like one of Eva Ibbotson's heroines (Anna Grazinsky, in the book with a dachshund that swall... read more
A slim but energetic reminiscence about the gardens the Bannerpeople have made as a couple: they are now three years into making their fourth, at their Elizabethan manor house in Somerset. E... read more
By the gardener who radically changed garden design in the latter part of the C20th by focusing on the achievable and vernacular: low maintenance, beautiful gardens for all, with no need for... read more
The ideal present for that rare breed of person mostly to be found head-down in the compost bin, with just a pair of legs with gumboot finials waving ecstatically at passers-by or spouses, l... read more
AF has created an immense green Arcadia in Devon, informed by philosophy, art history, symbolism, alchemy and the classical world. This is a beautiful book with many illustrations and AF's d... read more
Most lives are untidy, and mine is no exception... She made herself a success in Fleet Street when journalism was still a very male domain, edited Elizabeth David and inspired the look - if ... read more
RJ came to botanical painting relatively late, and later still to success. This memoir of her life as a painter also talks about her childhood, and about both Augustus John and Gwen John, he... read more
A biography of the fine watercolourist renowned for his pastoral evocations of rural England between the wars and who served as War Artist in WW2. Illustrated throughout.