The most successful gardens work with nature to create natural environments in which jobs such as pollination & pest control are left to the wildlife. In this definitive guide, Alan Titchmarsh shows how to create natural ecosystems in your garden to encourage beneficial insects, birds & other wildlife & establish the best environment in which your garden will thrive.

* Design ideas & planting plans for wildlife-friendly gardens
* Wildlife gallery showing common birds, mammals, amphibians & insects & how to attract them to your garden
* How to create natural habitats
* Recommended trees, shrubs & flowers for biodiversity
* Seasonal tasks for the year





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Best-selling author Alan Titchmarsh brings us the definitive guide to gardening throughout the year.

This ideal gardening

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Fill My Stocking is a collection of Christmas anecdotes, stories, poems & sketches from Alan Titchmarsh, beautifully illustrated with his own watercolour vignettes.

A great raconteur & entertainer, Alan gets together every Christmas with family & friends to celebrate the season & performs much-loved favourites old & new.

Fill My Stocking combines these well-known favourites with his own self-penned festive pieces.

Collected together for the first time, this is the perfect stocking filler for his legions of fans.

Alan Titchmarsh has presented numerous television programmes including the hugely popular How To Be A Gardener & British Isles: A Natural History. He is also a best-selling writer & novelist.







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Today, genes are called upon to explain almost every aspect of our lives, from social inequalities to health, sexual preference & criminality. Based on Darwin's theory of evolution & natural selection, Evolutionary Psychology with its claim that 'it's all in our genes' has become the most popular scientific theory of the late 20th century. Books such as Richard Dawkins's The Selfish Gene, Edward O. Wilson's Consilience & Steven Pinker's The Language Instinct have become bestsellers & frame the public debate on human life & development: we can see their influence as soon as we open a Sunday newspaper. In recent years, however, many biologists & social scientists have begun to contest this new biological determinism & shown that Evolutionary Psychology rests on shaky empirical evidence, flawed premises & unexamined political presuppositions. In this provocative & ground-breaking book, Hilary & Steven Rose have gathered together the most eminent & outspoken critics of this fashionable ideology, ranging from Stephen Jay Gould & Patrick Bateson to Mary Midgley, Tim Ingold & Annette Karmiloff-Smith. What emerges is a new perspective on human development which acknowledges the complexity of life by placing at its centre the living organism rather than the gene. ...

Today, genes are called upon to explain almost every aspect of our lives, from social inequalities to health, sexual preference & criminality. Based on Darwin's theory of evolution & natural selection, Evolutionary Psychology with its claim that 'it's all in our genes' has become the most popular scientific theory of the late 20th century. Books such as Richard Dawkins's The Selfish Gene, Edward O. Wilson's Consilience & Steven Pinker's The Language Instinct have become bestsellers & frame the public debate on human life & development: we can see their influence as soon as we open a Sunday newspaper. In recent years, however, many biologists & social scientists have begun to contest this new biological determinism & shown that Evolutionary Psychology rests on shaky empirical evidence, flawed premises & unexamined political presuppositions. In this provocative & ground-breaking book, Hilary & Steven Rose have gathered together the most eminent & outspoken critics of this fashionable ideology, ranging from Stephen Jay Gould & Patrick Bateson to Mary Midgley, Tim Ingold & Annette Karmiloff-Smith. What emerges is a new perspective on human development which acknowledges the complexity of life by placing at its centre the living organism rather than the gene. ...

Albert Camus is among the most significant French writers of the twentieth century. His novels, THE PLAGUE & THE OUTSIDER, have a timeless power & appeal & are studied all over the world, & his philosophical work has had an enduring influence. Oliver Todd has been authorised by Camus' family to write the definitive life. Opening with his impoverished childhood in Algiers, Todd brings the historical context to life, shedding light on Camus' later agonising conflict between sympathy for the working class Algerians & for the French colonials with a stake in their adopted l&. His life pre-sented impossible choices & perpetual struggle: his intimacy with the Gallimard family, despite their collaborationist activities; his involvement in the conflict between Satre & de Beauvoir; his own battles with debilitating bouts of tuberculosis & with the passion-ate, restless nature that would never let him settle. Because Todd understands his subject & his times so well, he brings to this rich, generous biography a rare immediacy & perception, evoking a great writer & his would with memorable force & engaging subtlety ...

In this powerfully atmospheric novel, Jacqueline Rose retells the story of Albertine from Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu, from her point of view. But this remarkable retelling stands on its own, needing no knowledge of the original. Instead this woman's story carries us into a a lush, dream-like world, in which a drama of passion
- suggestive & erotic, intriguing & provocative
- is played out on bodies & minds alike. The beautiful orphan, Albertine, is trapped in her lover's Paris apartment. She longs for his wealth & status, & hopes he will make her safe. Sickly & pampered, he is lured by her verve, the ease of her body, the pleasures he suspects are lurking in her past. Gradually, as they circle each other, their love starts to suffocate them both. This is a strange & captivating liaison, which starts on the wide sands of Normandy & ends in the city streets, in a hidden world behind closed doors. & as Albertine struggles to escape, her only delight lies in her free, sensual women friends. Yet even to them she remains mysterious. Can anyone answer the question
- who is Albertine?


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