Phases of the moon, sunrise and sunsets, tide tables, the changing sky at night, gardening tips, sowing times, recipes, holidays, festivals... and delightfully illustrated too. LL is an al... read more
This is a journey as imaginative and cerebral as it is physical: Lees, now an eminent neurologist, used to frequent the Liverpool docks as a child, with his father, and watch the ships unloa... read more
Cars, guns, computers etc have stopped working. Safe in rural Maine, the protagonists are visited by an old acquaintance in a retro-fitted tunnel-digger powered by a nuclear reactor. It can'... read more
A substantial book on a marvellous Norwegian artist still little known in this country, other than through a small exhibition at the National Gallery in 2014. The Gundersen collection compri... read more
Lulu Lytle’s love of this palm prompted her to buy Britain’s last rattan workshop in 2010 when it was facing bankruptcy. This book celebrates all things rattan, from the Titanic’s cafÃ... read more
A sumptuous volume on the so-called father of English geology, replete with Smith's own remarkable hand-coloured maps, stratigraphies, Sowerby's fossil illustrations, and photographs. Very l... read more