Author: Gary Dexter
Publisher: Frances Lincol
Keywords: titles, stories, catch
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2008-10-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0711229252
ISBN-13: 9780711229259

Based on the author’s long-running column in London’s Sunday Telegraph, this diverting book offers literary history in bite sizes, presenting surprising details on each of 50 classic work’s genesis and composition. Emphasizing books that are literally inexplicable without this background knowledge, the book covers iconic works from Thomas Moore’s Utopia to Joyce’s Ulysses. Along the way readers learn what Wordsworth’s Prelude was a prelude to, the identity of the original Jeeves, why A Clockwork Orange wasn’t A Robotic Banana, and much more.

Authors:Fred Whitsey,  Tony Lord,
Publisher: Frances Lincol
Keywords: hidcote, garden
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2007-09-25
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0711225311
ISBN-13: 9780711225312

Tells the story of the garden’s creation by the enigmatic American Lawrence Johnston and how it achieved such significance that in 1948 it became the first garden to be taken into the care of National Trust.

Author: Arabella Lennox-Boyd
Publisher: Frances Lincol
Keywords: gardens, designing
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2002-06-01
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 0711217572
ISBN-13: 9780711217577

The first part of this book explores Arabella Lennox-Boyd’s philosophy and establishes the principles of her approach to design: the importance of relating the garden not only to the landscape but also to the spirit of the house and the individuality of the owner; how to establish the bare bones of a design – enclosing garden rooms, and opening up garden space; how to use vertical structures to best effect; and how to clothe bare bones with plants appropriate to the type of garden. Design ideas for everything from paving and pergolas to perennial plantings burst from every page, captur

Author: V. Sackville West
Publisher: Frances Lincol
Keywords: land
Number of Pages: 108
Published: 2004-04-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0711223599
ISBN-13: 9780711223592

Vita Sackville-West is known as much for her creation of the gardens at Sissinghurst Castle as for her numerous novels, poems and gardening articles. Written in 1926, The Land is a nostalgic celebration of the Kentish countryside through the seasons. It won the Hawthornden Prize and sold over 100,000 copies.

Author: Lucy Su
Publisher: Frances Lincol
Keywords: friends, peekaboo
Number of Pages: 16
Published: 2002-04-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 1845072227
ISBN-13: 9781845072223

Robbie is looking for his friends. First he looks in his boots, and finds Giraffe! Then together they look for someone else and find Penguin. Robbie, Giraffe, and Penguin look in a drawer and find Puppy. Lift the flaps and help Robbie find his friends in this novelty story book.

Author: Charles Jenck
Publisher: Frances Lincol
Keywords: speculation, cosmic, garden
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2003-10-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0711222169
ISBN-13: 9780711222168

Telling the story of one of the most important gardens in Europe, created by the internationally celebrated architectural critic and designer Charles Jencks and his late wife, the landscape architect and author Maggie Keswick, this book looks at The Garden of Cosmic Speculation. It is a landscape that celebrates the new sciences of complexity and chaos theory and consists of a series of metaphors exploring the origins, the destiny and the substance of the Universe. The garden is full of ideas, associations, games and memories; Jencks weaves his personal account of the garden’s creation i

Author: Carole Thomerso
Publisher: Frances Lincol
Keywords: upholsterer, complete
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 1996-04-01
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0711210926
ISBN-13: 9780711210929

Comprehensive, practical guide.