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Love Vintage: Sourcing, Collecting & Selling Vintage & Decorative Antiques by Michelle Mason
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.46If you're already an avid collector of flea market finds, or eager to start a vintage business, or you simply enjoy the beauty of time worn objects, Michelle Mason's hands-on approach to collecting... -
Flower Market: Botanical Style at Home Michelle Mason 9781910258200
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.50In 2013 designer and illustrator Michelle Mason co-founded Mason & Painter, a vintage emporium on Columbia Road, in east London, a street famed for its Sunday flower market. Michelle's... -
The Apprehensive Gardener: Managing Garden Plants Griselda Kerr 9781910258231
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.65Griselda Kerr has drawn on over 20 years of gardening knowledge and experience to create the book that she wishes she had had access to when, as a complete beginner, she started to revive the "dismal... -
Living the Good Life in the City: A Journey to Self-Sufficiency Sara Ward 9781914902956
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £15.44Sara Ward has transformed her Victorian terraced house in London into an urban smallholding, 'Hen Corner'. Sara passionately believes that it's possible to combine the benefits of urban living with... -
Tough Plants for Tough Places: Invincible Plants for Every Situation Sharon Amos 9781914902017
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.20Most gardens do not have smooth, flat lawns and borders of rich, easily dug soil. We have to put up with damp, sunless corridors between houses, awkward slopes or plots shaded by trees or... -
Great Dixter: Then & Now Christopher Lloyd 9781910258897
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.10Christopher Lloyd, icon and iconoclast of the gardening world, was born at Great Dixter, in East Sussex, in 1921 and died there in 2006. In the years between he developed the garden at Dixter into a... -
Beth Chatto's Shade Garden: Shade-Loving Plants for Year-Round Interest by Beth Chatto
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £21.63First published as Beth Chatto's Woodland Garden by Cassell in 2002, this Pimpernel Classic edition includes a new afterword by David Ward, Garden and Nursery Director at Beth Chatto's Garden and a... -
Thinking the Plant: The Watercolour Drawings of Rebecca John Rebecca John 9781910258316
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £20.92Rebecca John was born into a family of painters, the most famous among them being her grandfather, Augustus John, and her great-aunt, Gwen John. And the last thing she wanted was to become a painter... -
Gardening in a Changing World: Plants, People and the Climate Crisis Darryl Moore 9781910258286
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.01Our planet, the Earth, is under threat, with potentially catastrophic consequences for ourselves and the other lifeforms it sustains. Yet Nature itself can still rescue us - with plants playing a... -
After the Fire: London Churches in the Age of Wren, Hooke, Hawksmoor and Gibbs Angelo Hornak 9781910258088
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £35.67'London was but is no more!' In these words diarist John Evelyn summed up the destruction wrought by the Great Fire that swept through the City of London in 1666. The losses included St Paul's... -
The Lindsays of Balcarres: A Century of an Ancient Scottish Family in Photographs Ludovic Lindsay 9781910258576
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £41.05The Lindsays of Balcarres began with the rediscovery of some dusty photograph albums at the home of the author's late father in Fife. The wealth of images within, unexplored for over eighty years,... -
Meadows: At Great Dixter and Beyond by Christopher Lloyd
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £19.08'To see a meadow in bloom is a great delight - it's alive and teeming with life, mysterious, dynamic . . .' So Christopher Lloyd began his much-admired instructive and celebratory account of... -
Pots for All Seasons Tom Harris 9781910258798
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £15.74In Pots for All Seasons, gardening guru Tom Harris offers a visual feast of container plantings, combined with solid, practical advice born out of his years of experience. The author suggests a... -
The Science of Garden Biodiversity: The Living Garden by Dr. Julian Doberski 9781914902093
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.24You step out of the back door into the garden. There may be a few birds flitting around, perhaps butterflies or bumblebees on the wing, but often the garden can seem very still. However, if you look... -
Brilliant and Wild: A Garden from Scratch in a Year Lucy Bellamy 9781910258637
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.30From back-of-an-envelope list to flower-filled paradise - Brilliant and Wild: A Garden from Scratch in a Year gives even the most inexperienced gardener the chance to create a beautiful and... -
How to Design a Garden John Brookes MBE, MBE 9781910258910
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £13.39Beginning in the 1960s, John Brookes MBE (1933-2018) revolutionized garden design, with a new design philosophy and methodology that was rooted in the notion that gardens are about the people who... -
Freestyle Embroidery on Wool: How to create your own embroidered wool applique designs Karin Derland 9781910258293
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.17In Freestyle Embroidery on Wool you will learn how to kickstart your creativity and become confident at making your own colourful and expressive designs using applique and embroidery on felted wool... -
Portrait Revolution: Inspiration, Tips and Techniques for Creating Portraits from the Artists of Julia Kay's Portrait Party Julia L. Kay 9781910258507
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £11.16Julia Kay's Portrait Party is an international collaborative project in which artists all over the world make portraits of each other and share them online. After years of exchanging portraits, tips... -
Paint & Make: Decorative and eco ways to transform your home by Philippa Stockley
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £14.43Artist and award-winning writer Philippa Stockley has designed, made and painted since childhood. Years as an impoverished painter made being frugal, ecological, and always recycling second nature... -
At Home with the Soanes: Upstairs, Downstairs in 19th Century London by Susan Palmer 9781910258446 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £2.38The product of many years' research by Susan Palmer, archivist to Sir John Soane's Museum, At Home with the Soanes paints a detailed picture of the social and domestic life at Nos 12 & 13 Lincoln's... -
Husbandry: Making Gardens with Mr B Isabel Bannerman 9781914902949
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.32'Making a garden together, in which to live and work, through thick and thin, fair and foul, is what we like to do best. Everything else is a sideshow. Since spring 2019 Julian and I have been making... -
Landscape of Dreams: The Gardens of Isabel and Julian Bannerman Isabel & Julian Bannerman 9781910258262
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £14.18Isabel 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' (Ruth Guilding, The... -
A Garden Well Placed: The Story of Helmingham and Other Gardens Xa Tollemache 9781910258804
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £24.81Xa Tollemache started her gardening life when she moved into Helmingham Hall in Suffolk in 1975, as a young wife and mother. She spent the next twenty years learning and consequently developing and... -
The Garden of Vegan: How Plants can Save the Animals, the Planet and Our Health Cleve West 9781910258477
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.50There was a time when garden designer Cleve West questioned the importance of his role as a garden designer. Two things changed his mind: designing a garden for a hospital and adopting a vegan... -
Modern Plant Hunters: Adventures in Pursuit of Extraordinary Plants Dr. Sandy Primrose 9781910258781
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £21.13Almost all the books that have been published on plant hunting focus on the so-called 'golden age' that ended with the death of Frank Kingdon Ward in 1958. One might be forgiven for thinking that... -
Beth Chatto: A life with plants Catherine Horwood 9781914902123
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.00"Catherine Horwood's book is a triumph, beautifully crafted by an author who has thoroughly researched and understood her subject. From start to finish, this publication gives us a real... -
Grounded in the Garden: An artist's guide to creating a beautiful garden in harmony with nature by TJ Maher 9781914902079
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £15.40"In this intimate book, TJ Maher - artist, gardener, nature-lover and contemplative - elegantly combines his painter's insight with his plantsman's knowledge to present a masterclass in garden... -
New York: Places to Write Home About Polly Devlin 9781910258071
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £27.39New York is a town of more quartiers and arondissements than Paris, more souks and bazaars than Cairo, a place of havens from overwhelming energy and of studios where that energy is generated. Above... -
Hold the Front Page!: The Wit and Wisdom of Anne Scott-James Clare Hastings 9781910258712
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £9.15In 1953 pioneering journalist Anne Scott-James started to write a weekly column for the Sunday Express newspaper. 'The Anne Scott-James Page' set the bar for a new way of writing. Scott-James... -
Gardening with Colour at Coton Manor by Susie Pasley-Tyler 9781914902086
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £17.24Voted 'The Nation's Favourite Garden' in 2019 by garden visitors in conjunction with English Garden magazine and the National Gardens Scheme, featured in the 2022 Channel 5 series on 'Great British... -
A Floral Feast: A Guide to Growing and Cooking with Edible Flowers, Foliage, Herbs and Seeds Carolyn Dunster 9781914902116
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £14.24Flowers have probably been used in cooking for as long as people have been preparing and flavouring food. In China cooks were experimenting with chive flowers in 3000 BC and the Romans frequently... -
The Indoor Garden: Get Started No Matter How Small Your Space Jade Murray 9781914902970
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.20User-friendly and highly accessible, this is a practical, fully illustrated and inspiring guide to indoor gardening by self-taught plant enthusiast Jade Murray. Here you will find invaluable tips and... -
The Gardener's Book of Colour Andrew Lawson 9781910258026
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £21.72A revised and updated edition of Andrew Lawson's classic work Andrew Lawson has an artist's eye, a scientist's training and long experience as both a gardener and a photographer of gardens. In... -
Led by the Land: Landscapes Kim Wilkie 9781910258521
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £26.42Leading landscape architect Kim Wilkie is revered for his unusual vision and his acute grasp of how people have moulded their environment over the centuries. This updated version of his classic book,... -
World Street Food: Easy Recipes for Young Travellers by Carolyn Caldicott
RRP: £5.99Booksplease Price: £4.63Full of simple, yet innovative, travellers' favourites, World Street Food is the cookbook for all young travellers and all beginner cooks. Carolyn and Chris Caldicott, co-founders of London's World... -
The Star-Nosed Mole: An Anthology of Scented Garden Writing Isabel Bannerman 9781910258453
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.50After publishing Scent Magic, an acclaimed memoir of plants, gardens and scent, Isabel Bannerman couldn't leave the subject alone. 'I came across the star-nosed mole, an adorable and preposterous... -
Paradise and Plenty: A Rothschild Family Garden Mary Keen 9781910258750
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £21.72The productive garden at Lord Rothschild's private house, Eythrope in Buckinghamshire, is legendary in the garden world for the excellence of the gardening and as a haven for traditional techniques... -
Dachshunds: The Long and the Short of Them Caroline Donald 9781910258279
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.28Dachshunds are everywhere. Walk down any fashionable metropolitan street today and you will be tripping over little sausages. They are the dog du jour: compact enough for city living yet feisty... -
Potted History: How Houseplants Took Over Our Homes Catherine Horwood 9781910258941
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.16There is no shortage of books on how to look after houseplants but no one has shown us how and when and why these plants came to be in our homes. Catherine Horwood's combination of social history,... -
Pure Style in the Garden: Creating An Outdoor Haven Jane Cumberbatch 9781910258064
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.30Increasingly, outdoor spaces are becoming our haven - somewhere to breathe again, heighten our senses and escape the onslaught of noise, clutter and technology. This book offers ideas and...