Books
This unique book is a real pleasure. Explaining the tradition of French rural gardens, the author takes you through the process of creating and maintaining a wonderfully natural garden using traditional methods. It is both beautiful and useful, with hundreds of colour photographs and practical illustrations, as well as details of growers providing old-fashioned plant varieties.
Whether you are buying an old house, worrying about damp stone walls, struggling to understand lime render, shopping for partition walling, hunting for builders, doing your own plumbing, trying to get planning permission...in short, if you are involved in any way with a renovation project in France, this book will be essential reading.
The essential all-new home improvement, restoration and self-build supplier guide from the publishers of Period Living, Homebuilding & Renovating and Real Homes magazines and the organisation of Homebuilding & Renovating and National Improvement shows.
Brand new selections of barn conversions in one of our most popular books. This new collection is lavishly illustrated with hundreds of high quality colour photographs and the full story of each conversion as well as design, building and supplier contact details. Please note that some material also appeared in the first edition of the book.
Property, whether you are buying house to live in or to let, represents an enormous financial commitment. This book, by bricks-and-mortar expert Michael Holmes, will show you how to maximise the value of your investment, and will reveal the kind of home improvements that make economic sense.
We have an enduring love affair with Georgian homes – so why do many of the attempts at “Georgian” style on our housing estates look so wrong? This book offers 17 of the finest examples of new homes built in a Georgian style and offers advice on how to get it right.
Celebrate Charles Dickens' Bicentenary year with Charles Dickens at Home, a new book that examines Dickens the man and writer through the houses he lived in and the homes he loved.
Get inspiration and ideas on how to decorate your home and table this festive season with this fabulous selection of books.
Get ideas for festive treats and goodies with this selection of foodie books.
Do you want to make your Christmas gifts or decorations this year, but are stuck for ideas? See a selection of the books available.
The ideal gift for anyone who revels in the magic of Christmas, new book All About Me by John and Juliette Atkinson will get you in the mood for all the joys of the season.
Villages are the very embodiment of Englishness. The beauty and diversity of the English village are recorded in this book in absorbing commentary and magnificent photography by James Bentley and Hugh Palmer.
In Kaffe Fassett's "Simple Shapes Spectacular Quilts", world-renowned quilter Kaffe Fassett demonstrates how basic geometric forms - squares, rectangles, triangles, diamonds, circles and quarter circles - found in natural and manmade environments inspire his quilt designs. This is evident in the 23 magnificent, inventive quilts showcased in this book and step-by-step instructions are provided for each one.
Here, for the first time, is a completely authoritative guide on how to look after your old house - whether it's a timber framed medieval cottage, an eighteenth century urban terrace or an example of Victorian or Edwardian speculative development.
This is a brand new edition of the best-selling book on planning consent. Used by the public and professionals alike this fourth edition is fully updated and completely re-designed.
