There is something special about the English country house garden: from its quiet verdant lawns to its high yew hedges, this is a style much-desired & copied around the world. The English country house is most often conceived as a private, intimate place, a getaway from working life, & here you will see gardens with meandering walks amongst greenery & contemplative pools of water. A sundial, a pergola, a croquet lawn, a herbaceous border of soft planting; here is a space to share secrets, to wander & relax, & above all to enjoy English afternoon tea. But even the most peaceful of gardens also take passion & hard work to create. This new book takes a fresh look at the English country house garden, starting with the owners & the stories behind the making of the gardens. With spectacular photos by Marcus Harpur, the text presents thirty gardens
- some gr&, some personal, some celebrated, some never-before-photographed
- to explore why this garden style has been so very enduring & influential. From the Victorian grandeur of Tyntesfield & Cragside, to the Arts & Crafts simplicity of Rodmarton Manor & Charleston; from Scampston, in the same family since the 17th century, to new gardens by Dan Pearson, Tom Stuart-Smith & the Bannermans; & with favourites such as Hidcote & Great Dixter alongside new discoveries, this book will be a delicious treat for garden-lovers.

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Garden design in England was entirely reinvented during the 18th-century. The strictly symmetrical gardens of the French Baroque were replaced by artificial landscapes which soon became almost indistinguishable from natural scenery. What continues to govern our notions of a beautiful landscape, even today, is the ideal image of Nature conceived by 18th-century English landscape gardeners. This journey through the history of the English garden introduces us to twelve of the most important, original & beautiful parks in Britain, all of which can be visited today. On the way, we learn how the new landscape garden was born of the spirit of political opposition. ...

Linda Rutenbergs images capture an astonishing world hidden from plain sight. By photographing public & botanical gardens at night, Rutenberg reveals a luminous landscape of plants, colours, shadows & light. Ten gardens throughout England are included, each with intimate portraits of their flowers & plants glowing in the blackness, revealing a secret nighttime world of subtle yet vibrant beauty, & illuminating the mystique of gardens. A perfect rose blooms at midnight. Leaves & flowers seem to glow in the darkness of the nocturnal world, & the peace of night affords these portraits an intimate quality. ” The English Garden at Night” will enchant art-lovers & garden-lovers alike. ...

This powerful, meticulously researched novel is a moving tale of one girl's struggle against a world in turmoil. In 1930s Berlin, choked by the tightening of Hitler's fist, the Klein family are gradually losing everything that is precious to them. Their fifteen-year-old daughter, Rosa, slips out of Germany on a Kindertransport train to begin a new life in Engl&. Charged with the task of securing a safe passage for her family, she vows that she will not rest until they are safe. But as war breaks out & she loses contact with her parents, Rosa finds herself wondering if there are some vows that can't be kept.. .A sweeping tale of love & loss, with the poignant story of the Kindertransport at its heart, this is an exceptional accomplishment from one of Britain's bravest & most vibrant young writers. ...

This powerful, meticulously researched novel is a moving tale of one girl`s struggle against a world in turmoil. In 1930s Berlin, choked by the tightening of Hitler`s fist, the Klein family are gradually losing everything that is precious to them. Their fifteen-year-old daughter, Rosa, slips out of Germany on a Kindertransport train to begin a new life in Engl&. Charged with the task of securing a safe passage for her family, she vows that she will not rest until they are safe. But as war breaks out & she loses contact with her parents, Rosa finds herself wondering if there are some vows that can`t be kept.. .A sweeping tale of love & loss, with the poignant story of the Kindertransport at its heart, this is an exceptional accomplishment from one of Britain`s bravest & most vibrant young writers. ...

Blue plaques, bearing names both familiar & intriguing, can be found all across the capital. From Virginia Woolf to Vincent Van Gough, Christopher Wren to Alan Turing, Mahatma Ghandi to Emmeline Pankhurst, the plaques celebrate an incredible array of London’s past residents. Whether they be musicians, scientists, sports stars, artists, actors, inventors or politicians, this compact English Heritage guide reveals, with wit & insight, the stories of London’s most extraordinary men & women & the homes in which they lived. ...

Jeff Krotz`s The English Hoard uncovers the lost historical images of south-east Engl&. In particular, Jeff focuses on the photography of Oxford, Isle of Wight, Bedfordshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Essex, Hampshire, Hertfordshire, Kent & Sussex in the 1900`s. As seen in photographer Francis Friths`s documentary photographs of Engl&, Jeff`s image have an added romantic & sensorial quality not always found in photo documents. The English Hoard explores how images are a simple play of dark & light; shadows that emerge to consume the light that shape our perception. For Jeff, a single image preserved at a single time; with that blink of the aperture & that connection made, that micro-moment is already long passed for the chronicler of time. It is an experience with infinity. These images are to share what has passed with what is now & what may be yet to come. Jeff believes the photograph is the latency of the time & the place, a mortality yet to be realised. The English Hoard uncovers some of these fascinating images.” Just as a smell or a sound may stir memories & remind us of a time & place or open a door to a familiar past experience; the same can be said of the image, ” comments photographer Jeff. This book will appeal to fans of photography & also those with an interest in historical architecture, travel & collectable antiquity. ...

With more than 20 million visitors each year, the Lake District retains its fascination for people from all over Britain & abroad. Ian Thompson, who grew up in nearby Barrow-in-Furness & went fell-walking from an early age, is well-equipped to reveal the area's allure. He tells how it was the chance combination of a fascination with the Alps & the outbreak of the Napoleonic wars that provided the spark for a national obsession. & in brief elegant chapters he shows how Wordsworth, Coleridge, Southey & De Quincey transformed the perception of the region from one of 'horrid mountains' to 'vales of peace'. Later the work of J. M. W. Turner, John Ruskin, Beatrix Potter, Arthur Ransome & Alfred Wainwright, the great populariser of fell-walking, all in their different ways contributed to making the region what it is today. Crammed with fascinating detail & illustrated with Thompson's own superb colour photography & more than 80 other colour illustrations, The English Lakes is sheer delight. ...

A detailed topographic map from the Ordnance Survey Explorer series, covering Penrith, Patterdale & Caldbeck (showing part of the Lake District National Park). Edition A3; Publication date February 2011 About this series: These highly detailed maps show all the administrative boundaries, settlements as small as isolated farms, the road network down to unfenced roads & country tracks, & field boundaries (hedges & drystone walls) which make navigation across the countryside much easier. Steep gradients on roads are indicated. Various landmarks, e.g. powerlines, archaeological sites, windmills, churches & lighthouses are shown & additional graphics indicate natural terrain features such as cliffs, scree, mud & vegetation variations. The contour interval is 5 metres in the lower parts of the country & 10 metres in the uplands, & spot heights are marked. Each map covers an area of 30 x 20km (i.e. approx. 19 x 12 miles), with some double-sided maps covering more, as indicated in the individual descriptions. The maps are fully GPS compatible, with the National Grid shown at 1km intervals & latitude & longitude indicated by margin ticks at 1'. The Explorer series has replaced the earlier, green-cover Pathfinder maps. The Explorer series is now complete & covers all of Engl&, Wales & Scotl&. Some sheets for popular areas like the National Parks are still branded as Outdoor Leisure (OL) maps, but are now included in this series as the cartography is the same as that in the Explorer Maps. The Explorer maps offer a substantial improvement on the Pathfinder series, with greater use of colour, larger area per map, & stronger emphasis on information for ramblers & tourists. This series is ideal for walking & other outdoor pursuits & each map shows a large amount of information for ramblers & tourists. Public rights of way are shown (except in Scotland), together with other routes with public access: National Trails & Recreational Paths, permitted paths & bridleways, & selected cycle routes. Open access land created under the Countryside & Rights of Way Act 2000 is marked. Tourist information

Includes:: caravan & camp sites, Park & Ride locations, recreation/leisure/sport centres, museums, historic buildings, English Heritage & National Trust sites, rural pubs, etc. The map legend is in English only, except for the tourist information content which is also in French & German. Maps in this series are only published as folded versions. However, it is now possible for us to print Explorer maps through the OS Select system which can produce them as flat sheets, with the added advantage of centring the map on a location of your choice.

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A detailed topographic map from the Ordnance Survey Explorer series, covering Keswick, Cockermouth & Wigton (Showing part of the Lake District National Park). Edition A3; Publication date December 2010 About this series: These highly detailed maps show all the administrative boundaries, settlements as small as isolated farms, the road network down to unfenced roads & country tracks, & field boundaries (hedges & drystone walls) which make navigation across the countryside much easier. Steep gradients on roads are indicated. Various landmarks, e.g. powerlines, archaeological sites, windmills, churches & lighthouses are shown & additional graphics indicate natural terrain features such as cliffs, scree, mud & vegetation variations. The contour interval is 5 metres in the lower parts of the country & 10 metres in the uplands, & spot heights are marked. Each map covers an area of 30 x 20km (i.e. approx. 19 x 12 miles), with some double-sided maps covering more, as indicated in the individual descriptions. The maps are fully GPS compatible, with the National Grid shown at 1km intervals & latitude & longitude indicated by margin ticks at 1'. The Explorer series has replaced the earlier, green-cover Pathfinder maps. The Explorer series is now complete & covers all of Engl&, Wales & Scotl&. Some sheets for popular areas like the National Parks are still branded as Outdoor Leisure (OL) maps, but are now included in this series as the cartography is the same as that in the Explorer Maps. The Explorer maps offer a substantial improvement on the Pathfinder series, with greater use of colour, larger area per map, & stronger emphasis on information for ramblers & tourists. This series is ideal for walking & other outdoor pursuits & each map shows a large amount of information for ramblers & tourists. Public rights of way are shown (except in Scotland), together with other routes with public access: National Trails & Recreational Paths, permitted paths & bridleways, & selected cycle routes. Open access land created under the Countryside & Rights of Way Act 2000 is marked. Tourist information

Includes:: caravan & camp sites, Park & Ride locations, recreation/leisure/sport centres, museums, historic buildings, English Heritage & National Trust sites, rural pubs, etc. The map legend is in English only, except for the tourist information content which is also in French & German.

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