The Tyrrhenian Sea to be precise: AG drifts down the western coast of Tuscany, Lazio and Campania, and on past Naples and the Amalfi coast to northern Sicily, spilling capers, lemons, ricott... read more
A new edition of this splendid book, in a smaller format and illustrated with a few drawings rather than photographs. Roddy writes wonderfully about Testaccio (where she has lived for over a... read more
A memoir of her multifarious travels, rich with culinary ideas - Russian railway pies, Sultanahmet in the snow, Polish cloudberries... Eden's latest book is imbued with her knowledge and lov... read more
The Austrian artist's late-C18th journey to Italy and the Levant resulted in his superb Flora Graeca; at the same time he made exquisite bird paintings, published here for the first time.
In cups, mugs, jugs, pots... Attractive photos in which many flowers are displayed with lots and lots of books. And not too tidy either! Pritchard highlights snowdrops, roses, nasturtiums, s... read more
A handsome hardback edition of this book, first published privately by the Land Gardeners in 2022. Large format and beautifully designed with lots of lovely photographs of gardens, farms, fr... read more
A gardener's control is illusory - thanks to a myriad of other - "often argumentative" - organisms that have their own ideas about how things should be run.
How did Oxford colleges, chapels, pubs, societies, nooks and crannies inspire Lewis and his friends? By the Professor of English Language and Literature at Magdalen. Some illustrations.
Travel memories - some imagined, such as a performance of 'Hamlet' off the African coast, in 1607 - from the amiable author of A Pike in the Basement: Tales of a Hungry Traveller.