In this wonderful gardening journal, which accompanies the BBC2 series of the same name, Carol Klein, with characteristic warmth & eloquence, tells us the story of a year in her beautiful garden at Glebe Cottage. With superb photography throughout, she takes us on a procession through the seasons, as she plans & plants, sows seeds & nurtures cuttings, tends the borders, & harvests her crops.

Her energy, knowledge & enthusiasm are an inspiration in every month of the year.

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'I wake to the sun striking gold on a stone wall. If I lean out of the window I can see Mount Canigou newly iced with snow. It is wonderful to live in a building with windows all around, to see both sunrise & sunset, to be constantly aware of the passage of the sun & moon.'

In 1988, Rosemary Bailey & her husband were travelling in the French Pyrenees when they fell in love with, & subsequently bought, a ruined medieval monastery, surrounded by peach orchards & snow-capped peaks. Traces of the monks were everywhere, in the frescoed 13th century chapel, the buried crypt, the stone arches of the cloister.

For the next few years the couple visited Corbiac whenever they could, until in 1997, they took the plunge & moved from central London to rural France with their six-year-old son. Entirely reliant on their earnings as freelance writers, they put their Apple Macs in the room with the fewest leaks & sent Theo to the village school. With vision & determination they have restored the monastery to its former glory, testing their relationship & resolve to the limit, & finding unexpected inspiration in the place.

Life in a Postcard is not just Rosemary Bailey





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Reptiles & amphibians ruled the world for nearly 200 million years & today there are still over 12, 500 of them. Some are huge, the deadliest creatures on earth. Some are tiny, among the strangest to be found anywhere. Together they not only outnumber mammals or birds but in their colourful variety & extraordinary behaviour, they far surpass them.

So where did these ancient creatures come from? How have they transformed themselves into the bizarre & beautiful forms that are alive today? & what

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David Attenborough reveals a secret universe it is teeming with life & is all around us, yet we never see it. It is the world of the very small, & it is a world of sex, drugs & violence. Here David shows us not just bugs, beetles & creepy-crawlies, but scorpions & centipedes, mites & mantids, spiders & dragonflies. & not just life in the undergrowth, but the dramatic battles between predator & prey that are happening in the corner of your living room & in your larder. See magnificent spectacles: swarming antler moths; millions of desert locusts; a mountain of locusts. For every pound of humans on Earth, there are 300 pounds of insects. ...

Douglas Rushkoff was mugged outside his apartment on Christmas Eve, but when he posted a friendly warning on his community website, the responses castigated him for potentially harming the local real-estate market. When did these corporate values overtake civic responsibilites?

Rushkoff examines how corporatism has become an intrinsic part of our everyday lives, choices & opinions. He demonstrates how this system created a world where everything can be commodified, where communities have dissolved into consumer groups, where fiction & reality have become fundamentally blurred. &, with this system on the verge of collapse, Rushkoff shows how the simple pleasures that make us human can also point the way to freedom.

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' Brilliant' OK! ' Engagingly warm' Heat ' Sensational' The Mirror' Ronan Keating demolishes his ' Mr Perfect of Pop image in a new warts-&-all book of his amazing ride to stardom.' The Mirror Ronan Keating is a very real idol. In a life-story that received extensive press & ecstatic reviews as 'a classic
- honest, funny & gripping', Ronan Keating tells the full story of his incredible journey. He may be only 23 but he has lived an extraordinary life so far, from playing football on a housing estate in North Dublin to headlining Madison Square Garden with Elton John. But Ronan has never forgotten it's his fans that got him there. It's an inspirational story of a boy from modest beginnings who confounded the critics & made his mark with talent, boyish good looks &, above all, an integrity that has helped him move from the teen market to a broader, adult audience. In a surprisingly honest, remarkably frank style he talks openly of his background & his beloved mother, Boyzone's extraordinary catapult to fame, his friends & b&-mates & his new solo career & his wife & son. Brimming with anecdote & revelation, this is a brilliantly written book by a true star
- Ronan.

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