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Marketing Services NG31 7XQ E E E Far East Trade orders: E: [email protected] E: [email protected] T: 01732 746093 T: 01476 541000 E E E E E E E E All other sales enquiries: E: [email protected] Rights enquiries: E E E E E: [email protected] E E E E Publicity enquiries: Emma O‘Bryen E: [email protected] T: 020 7619 0098 E E E E NEW TITLE 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 .