The Great Fire that swept through London in 1666 is estimated to have destroyed at least 13,000 houses and some 88 churches, including St. Paul’s Cathedral. But this tragedy had a silver lining: it pr
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. "Vaguely she began to wonder ... which of these worldly men round her was the mysterious `Scarlet Pimpernel,'
When Griselda Kerr set out to rescue the "dismal-looking" plants in her garden, she looked for a general guide book to help her—and failed to find one. Instead, she started to collect
Nobody sees things quite like Polly Devlin. Her writing is witty, entertaining, spontaneous and idiosyncratic—and it nudges your vision of the world into a slightly different skew. In this colle
This first-ever biography focuses on the couple at the center of the mid-century movement: Cedric Morris (1889-1982) and Arthur Lett Haines (1894-1978). Morris was a celebrated artist, teacher an
In Pots for all Seasons, gardening guru Tom Harris shows you how to combine pots to make a container garden and how to rearrange and replace them so that the display is always lively and appealing. He
In 2013 designer and illustrator Michelle Mason co-founded Mason & Painter, a vintage emporium in east London on a street famed for its Sunday flower market. Many of the vintage items sold in the
Isabel and Julian Bannerman have been described as "mavericks in the grand manner, touched by genius" (Min Hogg, World of Interiors) and "the Bonnie and Clyde of garden design" (Ru
This fascinating book imagines the lives of the inhabitants of 53 Finborough Road, in London’s ‘Little Chelsea’, from 1871, when it was built, to the outbreak of the Second World War
For four hundred years there has been a special relationship between Britain and what is now the United States of America in many aspects of life, not least in gardening. From the early settlers
A career spent traveling the world looking at gardens, and meeting their sometimes eccentric custodians, has resulted in a fund of unlikely experiences and encounters. There was, for example, that all
What do the celebrated actors, the bestselling novelist, the Nepalese Sherpa and the famous model have in common? Like millions of us, they love their gardens—and with good reason, too. Gardenin
This new edition provides a comprehensive description of the remarkable Sir John Soane's Museum in London's Lincoln's Inn Fields and reflects recent changes to the Museum including the imm
Chelsea Gold Medalist George Carter shows us how successful gardens are designed and made. He takes us through the process in meticulous detail, leading us from the initial site plan to the glory of t
It is no exaggeration to say that John Brookes transformed 20th-century garden design, not only in his native Britain but throughout the world. He fundamentally changed the way people think about thei
The daughter of garden writer Anne Scott-James, Clare Hastings was a latecomer to gardening, daunted as a child by the Latin names, and with the belief that pruning was "something best left to gr
With umbels, spires, and bright button-like dots, new perennial planting is perfect for the beginner gardener: intensely beautiful, swift to establish, simple to upkeep, beloved by bees, and incredibl
As long as there are plants and gardens, there will be plant enthusiasts who will want to grow variations, rarities, and oddities, including double flowers. Double flowers are simply flowers with a gr
Sir John Soane's Greatest Treasure describes one of the most important antiquities ever found in Egypt—the beautiful calcite sarcophagus of the pharaoh Seti I. Discovered in 1817 in the tomb
Building bridges across rivers, canyons, straits, and sea represents one of man’s greatest endeavors. It has stretched human ingenuity, engineering, and material technology to their limits. Brid
Michael Holroyd, perhaps the most distinguished of contemporary biographers, has in recent years turned his attention to the stories hidden within his own fascinating (not to say eccentric) family. In
The co-founders of London’s World Food Café recreate the tantalizing tastes of street stalls and night markets, trattorias and tea-houses, camp-fire cook-ups and comfort food in back-packer cafes. Car
Most gardens have dark areas—a north-facing border, an area shaded by a hedge, fence or house wall, a bed in the shade cast by shrubs or trees with greedy roots—and for many gardeners these are a chal
Whether you are a beginner or more experienced, any stitching project can be enhanced by a well-chosen color palette. However, many people are nervous or even scared of color. This book makes creating
Sir John Soane (1753-1837) was a highly literary architect, who appears to have valued Shakespeare for the architectural pictures he conjured up, and also as a moral teacher. He had a deep knowledge o
Since the first edition in 1897, dogs have featured prominently in Country Life Magazine, and Posh Dogs is a selection of the best. From wolfhounds to dachshunds, working dogs to lapdogs, puppies to p
If John Fowler was—in the words of the late Duchess of Devonshire—the Prince of Decorators, and Nancy Lancaster undoubted doyenne of English country house style, Imogen Taylor was their crown princess
This book of essays is published to coincide with an exhibition of the same title at Sir John Soane's Museum, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London (October 23, 2015 - March 26, 2016) commemorating the 200th a
Drawing on the enormous quantity of material available in the Woburn Archives, as well as the historic images and details preserved in the art in the Abbey itself, this book describes how the park and
