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In this section you'll find books on some of those subjects dear to all our hearts: food, home design, DIY and gardening (but for diet and fitness, please visit Health and Wellbeing). If you have any queries or requests, don't hesitate to email nathist@foyles.co.uk or ring us on +44 (0) 20 7437 5660.

 

Book of the Month

Spirit Spirit
Dan Pearson

Dan Pearson is one of the most influential landscape gardeners in Britain. Having trained at the RHS Garden, Wisley and the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew, he has gone on to work with Sir Terence Conran, to design five award-winning gardens at the Chelsea Flower Show and is The Observer's weekly gardening columnist. This is his vision of gardening, at the heart of which lies an unwavering reverence for the power and delicacy of nature. His own photographs illustrate a tour of the landscapes, both natural and man-made, which have inspired him, identifying the people and plants that have become such an important part of his life.

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Current Favourites - Gardening

RHS Take Chelsea Home
Chris Young

RHS Take Chelsea Home The annual Chelsea Flower Show, with its worldwide television coverage, is an inspiration to gardeners across the globe. This book features the best planning, design and decoration ideas from the last five years of shows, including masterclasses with gold-medal winners, celebrity designers and RHS experts, plus practical advice on recreating their planting schemes and gardens designs yourself.

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The RHS Allotment Handbook

The RHS Allotment Handbook Four allotment experts from the Royal Horticultural Society share their wisdom and experience on growing fruit, veg and flowers on allotments and getting the most from allotment life, from acquiring a plot to bringing home the carrots. It includes advice on choosing the right varieties, planting and harvesting plans, solutions for problems with weeds and pests and an extensive list of helpful contacts.

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Books and Naturalists
David Elliston Allen

Books and Naturalists Books have always played a vital part in the study of the natural world, allowing experts to share their discoveries and put together cogent, carefully classified analyses of the planet's plants and animals. The latest issue of New Naturalist offers an overview of nature publishing throughout history, including some of its greatest revelations and the stories of the publications that presented them.

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Grow Your Own Eat Your Own
Bob Flowerdew

Grow Your Own Eat Your Own There has been a huge increase in the number of homes producing their own fruit and veg, but for many, seasonal gluts are followed by long gaps before the next crop matures. This guide to growing your own does more than just offer growing tips: there's help on ensuring a more continuous crop and extending harvests, and advice on bottling, drying, jamming, smoking and the many other ways of ensuring year-round supplies.

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Cookery

Ministry of Food
Jane Fearnley-Whittingstall

Ministry of Food The real Ministry of Food was set up in 1939 to help people make the most of war-time rations. With food prices rising and many people struggling financially, Jane Fearnley-Whittingstall, mother of Hugh, combines the fascinating story of how people coped with wartime food shortages, tying in with a new exhibition at the Imperial War Museum, with a whole host of practical tips for kitchen frugality today.

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"Mums Know Best"
Dave Myers

"Mums Know Best" Tying in to their latest television series, the Hairy Bikers, Si and Dave, undertake a nationwide search for Britain's lost recipes. Yummy mummies, northern matriarchs, West Indian foster mums and ladies of the manor have volunteered those special never-before-published family recipes handed down from generation to generation, in a celebration of real British cookery and, in the truest sense, our favourite family dishes.

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Why Italians Love to Talk About Food
Elena Kostioukovitch

Why Italians Love to Talk About Food Food is a deeply ingrained aspect of Italian culture and a favourite topic of conversation across Italy. Every region has its own specialities, whose superior merits any local will fiercely defend. Elena Kostioukovitch explores Italy's culinary code to discover the dishes, ingredients, techniques and even language which make each region unique, exploring the roots of classics from Piedmontese bagna cauda to lamb ala Romana.

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The Accidental Vegetarian
Simon Rimmer

The Accidental Vegetarian Ever since this book's first publication in 2004, our customers have enquired after a paperback edition. Now, finally, the book that brings together favourites dishes from Manchester's hugely popular Greens restaurant, a guiding light in the growth of vegetarian eating in the UK, is available in paperback format. Dishes range from the simple pleasures of macaroni cheese to more exotic fusion dishes such as spicy beetroot and coconut soup.

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Interiors

Perfect Palettes
Stephanie Hoppen

Perfect Palettes Each of us has our own sense of colour derived from such diverse sources as the colour of our childhood bedroom to the shades of clothing which most flatter us, but combining colours effectively is a trickier matter. Interiors expert Stephanie Hoppen takes inspiration from nature, landscape, food and art to create colour combinations and provides detailed explanations on why they work and how to implement them.

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Decorating with Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen
Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen

Decorating with Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen In his continuing mission to help British households create the homes they really want, Llewelyn-Bowen shares his expertise on planning and creating your own unique style. Showcasing 30 breathtaking rooms, he shows how such ambitious projects as trompe l'oeil walls and dazzling combinations of colour and pattern can be made to work just about anywhere, as well as covering basics such as painting, tiling and wallpapering.

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We are delighted to have available for sale a wonderful collection of signed, limited edition natural history prints.

Would you like to attend lectures or events related to New Naturalist titles? Are you interested in signed first editions of forthcoming New Naturalists? Email us at Nathist@foyles.co.uk.



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