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Rachel Cooke: Her Brilliant Career: Ten Extraordinary Women of the Fifties
Richard Mabey: Weeds: The Story of Outlaw Plants: A Cultural History
John Hunt : Our Everest Adventure: The pictorial history from Kathmandu to the summit
Anthony Cartwright: How I Killed Margaret Thatcher (Fiction Uncovered 2013)
Lucy Caldwell: All the Beggars Riding (Fiction Uncovered 2013)
Niven Govinden: Black Bread White Beer (Fiction Uncovered 2013)
Susan Macqueen: The Children's Nurse: The True Story of a Great Ormond Street Nurse
Robert Macfarlane: Mountains of the Mind: a History of a Fascination
Christopher Lloyd: In My Garden: The Garden Diaries of Great Dixter
Niall Edworthy: The Curious Gardener's Almanac: Centuries Of Practical Garden Wisdom
The Geoff Hamilton BBC Collection (40th Anniversary Gardeners World DVD Box Set)
Keith Wiley: On the Wild Side: Experiments in New Naturalism
Josie Jeffery: Seedswap: The Gardener's Guide to Saving and Swapping Seeds
Sue Minter: The Apothecaries' Garden: A History of the Chelsea Physic Garden
Kristin Omdahl: A Knitting Wrapsody: Innovative Designs to Wrap, Drape, and Tie
Kristen Omdahl: Knitting Wrapsody: Innovative Designs to Wrap Drape and Tie + DVD
The Knitter: Knitting Masterclass: with Over 20 Technical Workshops and 15 Beautiful Patterns
Elizabeth Hake: English Quilting Old And New - With Notes On Its West Country Tradition
Gillian Clarke: At the Source: A Writer's Year
'On the first day of January I open a new journal and mark the clean page with a date, location, a first sentence...it is always an unlined, hardback black book, three inches by five..The first words print the field of snow...'
Robert Macfarlane: Mountains of the Mind: a History of a Fascination
'Contemplating the immensities of deep time, you face, in a way that is both exquisite and horrifying, the total collapse of your present, compacted to nothingness by the pressures of pasts and futures too extensive to envisage...'
Tony Judt: The Memory Chalet
'Thus I realize that as a child I was observing far more than understood. Perhaps all children do this, in which case what distinguishes me is only the opportunity that catastrophic ill-health has afforded me to retrieve those observations in a consistent manner... I have a variety of uses to which I can put them. For this alone I consider myself a very lucky man.'
Text by Simon Martin: Mark Hearld's Work Book
'The artist Mark Hearld takes his inspiration from nature, creating bold, enchanting visions of the landscapes, plants and animals that surround us...'
Jane Austen: Emma
'A woman is not to marry a man merely because she is asked, or because he is attached to her, and can write a tolerable letter,'
Philip Hensher: The Missing Ink: The Lost Art of Handwriting, and Why it Still Matters
Miriam Darlington: Otter Country: In Search of the Wild Otter
Hannah Rothschild: The Baroness: The Search for Nica the Rebellious Rothschild
Kate Summerscale: Mrs Robinson's Disgrace: The Private Diary of a Victorian Lady
Phil Dampier: What's in the Queen's Handbag: And Other Royal Secrets
Merryn Williams: Effie: A Victorian Scandal - From Ruskin's Wife to Millais's Muse
Julia Blackburn: Thin Paths: Journeys in and around an Italian Mountain Village
Simon Barnes: Birdwatching With Your Eyes Closed: An Introduction to Birdsong
Aileen Ribeiro: Facing Beauty: Painted Women and Cosmetic Art
Alan Paton: Cry, the Beloved Country: A Story of Comfort in Desolation
Matthew Hollis: Now All Roads Lead to France: The Last Years of Edward Thomas
Elizabeth Speller: The Sunlight on the Garden: A Family in Love, War and Madness
Edmund de Waal: The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance
Len Chester: Bugle Boy
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