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Hold The Front Page the wit and wisdom of anne scott-james clare hastings

In 1953 pioneering journalist Anne Scott-James started to write a weekly column for the Sunday Express. ‘The CLARE HASTINGS started her working life at Harpers & Anne Scott-James Page’ set the bar for a new way of Queen magazine, before leaving writing. She perfected the art of the short, sharp column to work as a stylist and then – and many of the topics she covered are equally on-trend as a costume designer. Thirty years later Clare changed tack today. The column was filled with her views on men, to work alongside her daughter, children, fashion, beauty, food, interiors, travel, and Calypso, in The Indytute. She is anything else that took her fancy. Political views might the author of Gardening Notes from a Late Bloomer (Pimpernel be squashed between a piece on eyebrow tweezing and Press, 2018) and The House in an opinion on swimsuit lines. Anne was a great believer Little Chelsea (Pimpernel in entertaining her readers. She wrote with a mixture of Press, 2019). intelligence, wit and style – and sheer funniness. In Hold the Front Page!, a selection of her Sunday Express columns is brought together with a commentary by her daughter, writer Clare Hastings, to provide a fascinating insight into the 1950s – and into the public and private life of the first female star of London's Fleet Street.

Anne Scott-James (1913–2009) was Women's Editor of Picture Post during the Second World War and Editor of Harper's Bazaar from 1945 to 1951. She wrote ‘The Anne Scott-James Page’ for the Sunday Express from 1953 to 1957 and was a columnist for the Daily Mail from 1960 to 1968. She also wrote for magazines including Vogue Publication March 2020 and Queen and was the author of many books – among Specifications them In the Mink, Down to Earth and Gardening Letters to Hardback, £14.99 my Daughter. She was married three times, first to Derek 229 x 152mm, 208 pages Verschoyle, second to Macdonald Hastings – with whom 978-1-910258-71-2 she had a son, Max, and a daughter, Clare – and third to b/w photographs and line Osbert Lancaster. drawings throughout 1 NEW TITLE NEW TITLE

Pots for All Seasons The Garden of Vegan

tom harris how plants can save the animals, the planet and our health

clEVE WEST

In Pots for All Seasons, gardening guru Tom Harris offers There was a time when garden designer Cleve West Professional horticulturist a visual feast of container plantings, combined with solid, thought making a garden was a frivolous pursuit for the CLEVE WEST is one of TOM HARRIS has been a practical advice born out of his years of experience. privileged. Two things changed his mind: designing a Britain’s top garden designers. keen grower of plants of all No less than nine of the gardens types since childhood. His The author suggests a wide range of seasonal garden for a hospital and adopting a vegan lifestyle. he has designed for the Chelsea particular interest is in greening plantings - as well as a variety of themes including Cleve’s transition to veganism was a profound and varied Flower Show have won RHS unpromising small spaces, and seaside, tiny plants, climbers and trees and shrubs – and learning experience. He learned more about nutrition Gold Medals and two years he has held a lifelong love for running his gardens have been container gardening. In his guides the reader on choosing what to plant (and the than when he studied it as part of a sports science degree. awarded Best in Show. He is also time he has planted thousands most suitable container to put it in), planting up and He learned a great deal about propaganda in the food a passionate vegan and animal of containers to adorn not maintenance, and combining pots for best visual effect so industry and how, contrary to what he’d been led to rights activist. His first book, only his own plot but gardens Our Plot (Frances Lincoln, 2011), throughout the UK and Europe. that the display is always lively and appealing. believe, the cows in the dairy industry are far from ‘happy’. was described as ‘A joy to read, He occasionally contributes He learned that animal agriculture is a leading cause harmonious and humble, full articles to national publications. Chapters include: of climate change and a whole range of environmental of common sense and belief in community and sustainable living.’ catastrophes. He found that many illnesses have their - Collecting pots: using the pot as the inspiration, origins in the consumption of animal products. He Harris shows how to use different types and styles, learned that a plant-based diet can alleviate some of these explaining their advantages and disadvantages and illnesses and sometimes even reverse them. He learned how to choose between them. that a drive towards a plant-based diet could offset many - What to grow: making the right choices between of the environmental aspects of animal agriculture and plants that play a permanent role and temporary make a positive transition to a more sustainable future. ‘visitors’. Everything started falling into place. It was all about - Planting for success: how to plant up your pots and plants. Suddenly, his role as a garden designer didn’t seem maintain them so they are always in top condition. so trivial after all. - Making pictures: how to arrange and compose pots to The Garden of Vegan charts Cleve’s journey from show them off at their best. its tentative beginnings to an understanding of the Publication May 2020 restorative power of gardens and a realization that some Publication Packed with practical advice and ‘how-to’ illustrations, Specifications of the most destructive aspects of the anthropocene can be May 2020 Pots for All Seasons also includes page after page of Hardback, £20 mitigated or even fixed by plants. Specifications 235 x 200mm, 176 pages photographs of glorious container plantings to inspire Informative, thought-provoking and disturbing, this Paperback original, £20 978-1-910258-79-8 readers to be bold in their choice of plants, containers book poses the most important question of our time: 230 x 170mm, 208 pages Colour illustrations and arrangements. how can we save the Earth? 978-1-910258-47-7 throughout Pots for All Seasons is the essential handbook for all Colour and b/w illustrations Rights sold: French container gardeners. throughout 2 3 NEW TITLE BACKLIST

Modern Pimpernel Garden Classics Plant Hunters adventures in pursuit of extraordinary plants

DR sandy primrose

Almost all the books that have been published on plant Beth The Gertrude Meadows Dr Sandy Primrose MBE hunting focus on the so-called ‘golden age’ that ended Chatto's Gardener's Jekyll at at Great PhD has spent his professional life as a biologist, initially in with the death of Frank Kingdon Ward in 1958. One Shade Book of Munstead Dixter academia and then as a senior might be forgiven for thinking that plant hunting itself Garden Colour Wood and Beyond manager in pharmaceutical, came to an end in 1958. On the contrary, there have shade-loving andrew lawson judith tankard & CHRISTOPHER diagnostic and life science plants for companies. He has also worked been more new plant introductions in the past thirty martin wood LLOYD & with various government years than ever before. This book tells the stories of the year-round ‘Thoroughly revised fergus garrett interest and updated . . . departments on topics such modern-day plant hunters – such pioneering adventurers ‘[A] delicious volume PHOTOGRAPHS BY as the detection of food fraud [with] spectacularly as Mikinori Ogisu, Dan Hinkley, Roy Lancaster, beth chatto by two leading jonathan buckley and the safety of genetically illuminating experts . . . this engineered foods. He now Ed de Vogel, Lin Yu-Lin, Michael Wickenden and PHOTOGRAPHS BY & carol casselden illustrations, the book explains the works as a consultant helping Claire Scobie. steven wooster early-stage companies in the book sets out above processes and the ‘An inspiring afterword BY healthcare field. Sandy is a The author also examines the search for medicinal all to help you find very human side of book, factual and david ward keen gardener and lectures plants and the work of scientific institutions, both of both what individual a garden designer enchanting. A highly extensively on plants, which have been largely ignored, and considers such ‘A masterclass in colours and what whose legacy recommended read.’ horticulture and gardening. The Cottage Gardener He is passionate about developments as the effect of habitat destruction on plant garden design.’ combinations endures.’ work best for you teaching and tries to be both loss and plant diversity. Francine Raymond, Country Life SPECIFICATIONS entertaining and educational. The Daily Telegraph throughout the year. Hardback, £30 He lives in Buckinghamshire. In short, invaluable.’ SPECIFICATIONS 230 x 170mm Hardback, £25 SPECIFICATIONS 240 pages David Sexton, 230 x 170mm Hardback, £30 978-1-910258-03-3 Evening Standard 208 pages 230 x 170mm Colour illustrations 978-1-910258-05-7 232 pages throughout 978-1-910258-22-4 SPECIFICATIONS Colour illustrations Hardback, £25 Previously announced Colour illustrations throughout 230 x 170mm throughout 232 pages Publication 978-1-910258-02-6 January 2020 Colour illustrations Specifications throughout Hardback, £30 Rights sold: German, 235 x 156mm, 272 pages Simplified Chinese, US & Canada 978-1-910258-78-1 (paperback) Colour and b/w illustrations throughout 4 5 BACKLIST BACKLIST

Gardens & Gardening

The Beth Chatto Brilliant Double Flower Gardening Gardening The Generous Apprehensive a life with plants & Wild Flowers Market Across Notes From Gardener Gardener catherine a garden from the remarkable botanical style the Pond a Late private paradises managing horwood scratch in a story of extra- at home anglo-american Bloomer shared year petalled blooms garden plants michelle mason exchanges from CAROLINE DONALD ‘Catherine Horwood's clare hastings lucy bellamy nicola ferguson the settlers Griselda kerr book is a triumph, ‘It is to all the in virginia to drawings BY ‘Absorbing and photographs BY with charles ‘Ideal for novices . . . beautifully crafted by followers of floral prairie gardens osbert lancaster entertaining.’ jason ingram quest-ritson in england with a cheerful, an author who has designers on ‘An enchanting read, Matthew Biggs, thoroughly researched WINNER, PRACTICAL ‘Scholarly and Instagram that this The Garden encouraging tone, it BOOK OF THE YEAR, RICHARD BISGROVE packed full of good and understood her fascinating.’ book will appeal. contains a wealth of GARDEN MEDIA GUILD advice and quirky ‘These very personal subject. From start to AWARDS 2018 Every chapter has ‘I was completely information.’ Rachel de Thame, observations on the encounters, each finish, this publication pages of impeccably riveted from the Daily Mail ‘Bellamy makes The Sunday Times joys – and occasional rendered in little gives us a real styled, elegant images. very first page . . . gardening simple, Gardening Book of the heartache – of more than a thousand ‘Destined to become understanding of Beth's For anyone after a illuminating.’ expressive and joyful. Year 2018 gardening.’ Daily Mail words, like miniature a classic.’ life. There is so much “look book” of what Gardens Illustrated Anyone can do it paintings, tell us so Garden Design Journal here to keep the reader ‘Both erudite and flowers are available ‘An amusing read cheaply and with seductively readable, ‘Bisgrove deftly much…Enjoying ‘Maintenance gripped.’ Fergus Garrett, from a local market . . . but there is also little spare time.’ comparable to establishes the my journey through becomes a creative Gardens Illustrated and how to combine plenty of practical Evening Standard the writings of links between those her book I felt at the force in Griselda's them, this will be a advice. Comical ‘This fascinating, Christopher Lloyd who have shaped end that I’d been to a hands and her tips ‘Both practical and useful resource. If this illustrations by beautifully-written - and there simply our gardens and grand garden party, are interesting and inspirational.’ encourages and entices Osbert Lancaster add biography paints a fond hasn’t been a book on landscapes on both catching up with a few well presented.’ Country Living a new generation to go to the book's charm.’ and intimate portrait of the subject before.’ sides of the Atlantic.’ old pals and making Country Living out and find flowers House and Garden one of the true greats of SPECIFICATIONS David Sexton, The English Garden several new friends.’ Hardback, £20 . . . it gets my vote.’ SPECIFICATIONS the gardening world.’ Evening Standard SPECIFICATIONS David Wheeler, Hortus 235 x 187mm Simon Lycett, The Garden SPECIFICATIONS Hardback, £12.99 Paperback original, The Irish Times Hardback, £40 176 pages 198 x 129mm SPECIFICATIONS £16.99, 245 x 187mm SPECIFICATIONS 230 x 170mm, 240 pages 978-1-910258-63-7 Hardback, £30 SPECIFICATIONS 128 pages Hardback, £30 288 pages SPECIFICATIONS Hardback, £20 978-1-910258-24-8 Colour illustrations 230 x 170mm 978-1-910258-98-9 230 x 170mm, 208 pages 978-1-910258-23-1 Hardback, £30, 235 x 187mm Two 16-page colour plate throughout 296 pages Line drawings throughout 978-1-910258-97-2 40 colour illustrations 230 x 170mm 176 pages sections, b/w illustrations Rights sold: Dutch, 978-1-910258-88-0 Colour illustrations 288 pages 978-1-910258-20-0 throughout French, German Colour illustrations throughout 978-1-910258-82-8 Colour illustrations throughout Colour and b/w throughout illustrations throughout Rights sold: German 6 7 BACKLIST BACKLIST

Gardens & Gardening

Head Herterton A Landscape Landscape of Led by the Paradise and Scent Magic Setting Gardeners House Legacy Dreams Land Plenty notes from a the Scene gardener AMBRA EDWARDS and a New john brookes mbe the gardens of landscapes by a rothschild a garden design Country isabel & julian kim wilkie family garden isabel bannerman masterclass photographs BY foreword BY bannerman from repton to CHARLIE Garden cleve west ‘A revelatory story mary keen ‘Part-practical the modern age HOPKINSON foreword by FRANK LAWLEY preface BY of how landscapes PHOTOGRAPHy BY handbook, part- HRH THE PRINCE OF george carter WINNER, inspirational andrew duff in human hands can tom hatton PHOTOGRAPHy BY WALES autobiography, BOOK OF THE YEAR, become inhabited special PHOTOGRAPHy BY GARDEN MEDIA GUILD VAL CORBETT ‘Exceptional.’ part-philosophical ‘Essential reading ‘Makes an excellent works of art, written marianne majerus AWARDS 2017 FOREWORD BY Anna Pavord, The Garden reflection on art and for anyone interested present . . . Isabel’s by one of the most CHARLES Nature . . . this book is ‘Sheer originality, ‘Ambra Edwards’s in garden design vividly coloured style gifted of today’s QUEST-RITSON ‘Gloriously illustrated.’ an absolute feast, not verve, wit and fascinating and history.’ is punctuated with landscape architects.’ Woman and Home only for gardeners, but invention burst from interviews show ‘Lovingly penned, Tim Richardson, acute insight. The Sir David Attenborough for anyone interested in the images on these what diversity there deeply personal and The Daily Telegraph Bannermans describe ‘Packed with art and Nature and in pages. The author is in British gardens. strangely moving, and illustrate designs practical information ‘This memoir is a ‘If you want to make living well.’ modestly tells us It’s a book about it speaks volumes which bring the and guidance.’ book all landscape a landmark, do not John Hoyland, about Repton - but it people and how about the intense past into the present Ths Daily Telegraph designers should grow gentians. Get Country Life is Carter from whom they tick – people relationship that a without losing their have on their Wilkie to shape ‘The book gives a we learn. He gives who happen to be gardener gradually capacity to startle as SPECIFICATIONS shelves.’ the myths of your rare and profound the amateur designer gardeners.’ forges with the space well as delight.’ Hardback, £30 The Garden dreams.’ understanding of 270 x 210mm the confidence to The Times that he/she tends.’ Robin Lane Fox, Robin Lane Fox, the sophistication 256 pages experiment with The Irish Times SPECIFICATIONS Financial Times Financial Times 978-1-910258-49-1 ‘An informative and Hardback, £40 of gardening at its ornament and be bold Colour illustrations 270 x 210mm most masterly . . . eye-opening delight.’ SPECIFICATIONS ‘Now here’s real glitz, SPECIFICATIONS throughout with evergreen shapes.’ Country Life Paperback, £30 280 pages of a truly wonderful Hardback, £35 Inspiring.’ Kim Tim Richardson, 978-1-910258-93-4 228 x 240mm romantic kind.’ 230 x 170mm, 216 pages Wilkie, House & Garden Gardens Illustrated SPECIFICATIONS 264 pages Colour illustrations 978-1-910258-52-1 throughout Stephen Anderston, Hardback, £35 978-1-910258-58-3 Colour and b/w SPECIFICATIONS SPECIFICATIONS 230 x 170mm Colour illustrations The Sunday Times illustrations throughout Paperback, £30 Hardback, £40 240 pages throughout 270 x 210mm, 304 pages 270 x 210mm 978-1-910258-74-3 SPECIFICATIONS 978-1-910258-75-0 208 pages Paperback, £25 Colour and b/w Colour illustrations 978-1-910258-59-0 285 x 230mm, 296 pages illustrations throughout throughout, seven double Colour illustrations 978-1-910258-26-2 gatefolds throughout Colour illustrations Rights sold: German throughout 8 9 BACKLIST BACKLIST

Gardens & Gardening Architecture & Interiors

Topiary, Woburn You Should After the Fire Bridges Henbury New York On the Knots and Abbey Have Been london churches spanning an extraordinary places to write Fringe Parterres the park Here in the age of wren, the world house home about a life in hooke, hawksmoor winner, european & gardens Last Week marcus binney jeremy musson polly devlin decorating garden book of the and gibbs year, 2018 keir davidson sharp cuttings ‘Binney's examples foreword BY photography by IMOGEN TAYLOR from a garden angelo hornak hrh the prince special PHOTOGRAPHy are drawn from annie schlechter ‘Demonstrates that of wales ‘As sharp as an BY bridget davey writer FOREWORD BY the rt this most ancient around the world ‘Features styles for upholsterer's tack, revD stephen platten INTRODUCTION BY of traditions is INTRODUCTION BY tim richardson and across the every taste, from the Miss Taylor worked the duchess of gilly ziani de alive and kicking, ‘A collection of lively ‘For those who may not centuries, from totally bonkers to the at Colefax for 50 bedford ferranti reinterpreted by articles by one of the wish to negotiate the the works of restrained and elegant.’ years and offers a contemporary garden ‘The best most intelligent irregular opening hours, ancient masons and ‘This beautiful book The Times rare account of a and landscape Angelo Hornak’s After medieval carpenters pays splendid tribute lost world . . . As country-house garden critics writing ‘Outstandingly rare designers to look as the Fire transports you to projects by to the finest late well as unflagging history published today. Richardson is and precious.’ relevant today as it to each of the surviving contemporary 20th-century Classical aperçus, [she] gives in recent years.’ not afraid to prod, The Guardian was to the Romans. John Martin Robinson, tease and question Wren churches with architects and house in England . . . a a warm account of You will be reaching Country Life received opinion.’ masterly photographs of engineers.’ fascinating record of a ‘Invites you into the the craftspeople she Architecture Today for those shears.’ The Sunday Times their best perspectives unique building, as well homes of more than two worked with, many of The Sunday Times SPECIFICATIONS and sharp close-ups of as a visual treat.’ dozen New Yorkers who whose intricate trades Hardback, £40 ‘The most SPECIFICATIONS their salient details Hardback, £40 John Martin Robinson, live all over the city. are now lost. Here is ‘Every page brings a 270 x 210mm independent, 240 pages . . . This handsome 245 x 300mm Country Life There are maximalists a woman with a great new wonder.’ thoughtful, book captures the visual 256 pages 978-1-910258-13-2 ‘The death of beautiful and traditionalists, a appetite for life.’ Anna Pavord, Colour illustrations challenging gardening drama at the heart of 978-1-910258-17-0 new country houses has Memphis mecca in Country Life House & Garden throughout critic writing now. what proved to be an Colour illustrations throughout been exaggerated – as Chelsea − even a Every article here unparalleled flowering of SPECIFICATIONS SPECIFICATIONS Rights sold: you will discover on Baptist church-cum- Hardback, £50 Rights sold: French, makes entertaining English architecture . . . a Japanese reading Henbury: An home in Harlem.’ 285 x 230mm German reading as well as being dizzy kaleidoscopic treat.’ 224 pages Extraordinary House.’ Isabel Wilkinson, well worth pondering.’ World of Interiors The New York Times 978-1-910258-77-4 Evening Standard The Oldie Colour illustrations SPECIFICATIONS throughout SPECIFICATIONS SPECIFICATIONS SPECIFICATIONS Hardback, £50 Hardback, £50 Hardback, £40 Paperback, £9.99 270 x 210mm, 384 pages 305 x 229mm, 224 pages 198 x 129mm 978-1-910258-08-8 305 x 229mm, 240 pages 978-1-910258-11-8 978-1-910258-07-1 208 pages Colour illustrations Colour illustrations throughout 978-1-910258-86-6 throughout Colour and b/w illustrations throughout Rights sold: US & Canada 10 11 BACKLIST BACKLIST

Architecture & Interiors Art & Craft Biography & Memoir

Osbert Restoration Rex Whistler: Old Masters Portrait Colour Ancestors in A Lesson in Lancaster's Stories Inspirations Rock Revolution Confident the Attic Art & Life Cartoons, patina and paint including: how to look inspiration, Stitching including: the colourful Columns and in old london family, friendships, at art with tips & how to create my great- world of Curlicues houses landscapes; children techniques beautiful grandmother's cedric morris love & war maria- for creating colour palettes book of ferns; and arthur including: philippa stockley christina sayn- portraits my aunt's book of lett-haines pillar to post photography by Hugh AND karen barbÉ wittgenstein from the artists silent actors homes sweet homes MIRABEL CECIL hugh st. clair charlie hopkinson nottebohm of julia kay's drayneflete ‘It is a pleasure to SIR michael holroyd foreword BY portrait party revealed The stories of 16 SPECIFICATIONS foreword BY review this fabulous Hardback boxed set, £30 ‘Offered almost as philip mould houses – 15 of them gary tinterow edited BY new book . . . osbert lancaster 230 x 180mm, 176 pages, religious texts, one is East London Georgian, julia l. kay the analysis of color ‘Enjoyably 978-1-910258-42-2 ‘Would be a a beautifully pressed ‘Lancaster’s delightfully one a tudor gatehouse Illustrated throughout palettes and how to revealing.’ wonderful prelude to ‘As a visual feast, collection of ferns sardonic spoof on the Isle of Sheppey develop them is very Gardens Illustrated a museum visit or a it offers an endless made by his great- architectural histories – and how they were inspiring. I highly rainy-day excursion source of inspiration.’ grandmother in India in ‘Provides a are handsomely rescued from oblivion recommend this in itself.’ Paint & Draw the mid-19th century; compelling window republished by the and restored to a new book for all levels of The Wall Street Journal the second is a series of on to the British Pimpernel Press.’ beauty. The author, SPECIFICATIONS stitchers.’ avant-garde and its Paperback original photographs of silent- The Spectator Philippa Stockley, SPECIFICATIONS feelingstitchy.com £18.99, 240 x 187mm movie stars gathered relationship with who lives in one of the Paperback, £9.99 ‘Contains pretty 224 pages SPECIFICATIONS by his aunt Yolanda in similar movements houses, is a painter, 275 x 215mm much everything you 112 pages 978-1-910258-50-7 Paperback, original the 1920s. Through elsewhere in Europe.’ novelist and journalist Colour illustrations £16.99, 254 x 203mm need to know about 978-1-910258-95-8 these images Holroyd Tim Richardson, dedicated to restoration, Colour illustrations throughout 128 pages architecture.’ unravels the lives, tragic Literary Review conservation and throughout Rights sold: 978-1-910258-65-1 An Anthology US & Canada Colour illustrations and comic, behind these RIBA Journal recycling, which are Rights sold: Dutch, SPECIFICATIONS of Mine Korean, Simplified throughout strangely magical and strong themes of Hardback, £30 SPECIFICATIONS Chinese, Russian Rights sold: German, 234 x 156mm Hardback boxed set, £40 REX WHISTLER peculiar assemblies.’ the book. Korean, Spanish 272 pages 230 x 180mm, 304 pages commentary by HUGH The Observer 978-1-910258-36-1 978-1-910258-37-8 SPECIFICATIONS AND MIRABEL CECIL 16-page colour and b/w Line drawings throughout Hardback, £45 SPECIFICATIONS Hardback boxed set, £35 plate section 275 x 245mm SPECIFICATIONS 224 pages Boxed hardback, £40 230 x 150mm, 120 pages, 978-1-910258-41-5 198 x 160mm, 88 pages 978-1-910258-84-2 Colour and b/w 978-1-910258-15-6 Colour and b/w illustrations illustrations throughout Illustrated throughout throughout 12 13 BACKLIST BACKLIST

Biography & Memoir Fiction History Travel

Virginia Writing The House Black Lily At Home Sir John Seeking Seeking Woolf at Home in Little philippa stockley with Soane's Chicago New York Home selected essays Chelsea the Soanes Greatest the stories the stories LONGLISTED FOR THE behind the hilary macaskill CLARE HASTiNGS PEOPLE'S BOOK PRIZE, upstairs, Treasure behind the polly devlin architecture historic 2019/20 downstairs in the sarcophagus foreword BY foreword BY of the windy architecture ‘This beguiling little 19th century of seti i cecil woolf joan bakewell book mixes fact and ‘A deliciously london city – one of manhattan – satisfying read . . . john h. taylor & building at one building at ‘A confident, well- ‘Eloquent and fiction to recreate one to be gobbled SUSAN PAlMER helen dory a time a time written book with a open-minded, the life of a house in up greedily.’ winner, ace best Chelsea – the house winner, ace best TOM MILLER TOM MILLER whiff of that seductive Writing Home general publication Country Life general pUBLICATION “spirit of place”.’ in which the author award, 2017 stands testimony award, 2018 ‘Meticulously ‘Packed with drawings The Times Literary to a life well-lived. lives – from 1873 to ‘This engrossing, ‘. . . a fascinating researched, profusely and photographs, as Supplement It champions the 1920s. Perfect multi-layered account Sir John Soane's Greatest and detailed account illustrated, engagingly well as historical and feminism as “The F Christmas present for of skulduggery and Treasure tells the story ‘Macaskill has written of social and presented, richly architectural facts, it’s Word”. I’d add that aunts, and everyone intrigue is far more of one of the most a lively and lovingly domestic experience detailed, and written what we learn about it exemplifies the else really.’ than a titillating read, important antiquities researched book, full at the turn of the with a completely New Yorkers, from virtues of family and Allison Pearson, as Stockley explores ever found in Egypt of domestic detail, 19th century.’ engaging narrative the rich and famous to fearlessness.’ Harper's Bazaar the themes of race, – the beautiful calcite which is sure to delight Journal of the storytelling the poor and humble, Country Life sexism, wealth, sarcophagus of the Bloomsbury fans.’ ‘Full of human interest London Society style . . . unique, that really reveals poverty, control and pharaoh Seti I. Sussex Life ‘. . . affectionate and the richness and extraordinary . . . the beating heart of desperation . . . [it ‘Rich in incidental sketches of friends sadness of the passing SPECIFICATIONS highly recommended.’ Manhattan.’ ‘Intriguing insight into is] crying out for an information.’ Paperback original, £9.99 including Nuala of time.’ Midwest Book Review CSMA Magazine her domestic life . . . rich ambitious TV or film Time Out 215 x 200mm O’Faolain and her Margaret Drabble with quotes.’ producer to bring 96 pages SPECIFICATIONS SPECIFICATIONS brother-in-law SPECIFICATIONS 978-1-910258-87-3 House & Garden SPECIFICATIONS it to the even wider Paperback original Paperback original Seamus Heaney . . . Hardback, £12.99 Paperback, £12.99 Colour illustrations £14.99, 200 x 140mm £12.99, 200 x 140mm audience it deserves.’ 216 x 135mm throughout SPECIFICATIONS 216 x 135mm, 176 pages 256 pages 256 pages ring with truth and 112 pages Hardback, £25, 978-1-910258-96-5 Crime Review 978-1-910258-72-9 978-1-910258-00-2 tenderness.’ 978-1-910258-44-6 230 x 170mm Colour and b/w Colour and b/w SPECIFICATIONS Colour illustrations 208 pages The Irish Times illustrations throughout illustrations throughout Paperback original throughout 978-1-910258-69-9 Rights sold: Rights sold: SPECIFICATIONS £8.99, 198 x 129mm, Colour and b/w US & Canada US & Canada Paperback original 240 pages illustrations throughout £10.99, 216 x 135mm 978-1-910258-09-5 256 pages 978-1-910258-33-0 14 15 BACKLIST

Travel Wrapping paper books

Riding Maps Japanese Robert Route 94 FROM THE BRITISH Woodblock Adam an accidental LIBRARY Prints Designs journey 978-1-910258-55-2 FROM glasgow FROM SIR JOHN through museums SOANE‘S MUSEUM the story of 978-1-910258-53-8 978-1-910258-56-9 britain david mckie ‘His writing has a quality of restful immediacy: unhurried, curious, and totally absorbed. Rich in anecdote, aesthetically sensitive, historically accurate, and wonderfully witty.’ The Tablet

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