In 1940 Doreen Wallace, prolific novelist, academic, social campaigner & farmer, wrote a book for Batsford on vegetable growing, as part of the publisher's iconic Home Front Handbook series. With its chatty, readable writing style & its beautiful Brian Cook cover, the book became a wartime classic, invaluable for everyone growing fruit & vegetables at home to help the war effort. This reissue of that important book retains all the appeal of the original. As well as being a great read, it contains a wealth of information that is still useful for vegetable gardeners today. It tells you what fruit & vegetables to grow & when, how & why, how to keep down weeds & pests, explores ' The Vexed Question of Small Fruit', gives tips on arrangement & rotation of crops, & even touches on the subject of keeping hens & pigs in your garden. Full of sensible practical advice mixed with whimsical musings & a great deal of charm, this book would make a perfect gift for any gardener. ...

Shrubs & climbers provide one of the principle tools for design & decoration. Their huge range & variety allow a great deal of choice & flexibility to shape the composition & mood of any garden. This book shows how to select the best shrubs & climbers for any garden, with inspirational ideas for a range of decorative effects. ...

Head to the vegetable plot where seeds are sown, plants nurtured, fruits tended, & crops harvested with Joe Hashman. With his guidance & your gardening any patch big or small will provide you with fresh seasonal fruit & vegetables while maintaining the natural balance of your garden. ...

No matter how you look, if you have a mind that's fascinating, creative, exciting
- if you're a good thinker
- you can be

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This book will teach you to understand your cats needs to make him or her happy & healthy, discover fun & inventive ways to feed, exercise & play with your pet. Read informative esearch to get a fascinating insight into feline behaviour, 23 x 16 x 1cm, pages 160 ...

When you want to buy or rent your dream home, you go to an estate agent. When you want to learn to cook, you buy a recipe book from TV's latest celebrity chef. But who is there for you when you want to learn about having great sex? Or when you want to revive a flagging sex life? How to Have Great Sex is the answer. This step-by-step guide takes you from the underrated pleasures of a good snog through to the best positions for having that quickie in a forbidden place & gives you all the advice you need on How do initiate sex & how to talk dirty. Whether you are a novice wanting to move on from the basics of the missionary position, or an experienced lover aching to know how to pep up your sex life, you'll find it all explained between these sheets in explicit, intimate, fun & super sexy detail. ...

Many people think that the old alchemists were trying to turn lead into gold. This work reveals that they were metaphorically working on transforming heavy leaded consciousness into gold light consciousness. Using their theories, it offers strategies for processing the harmful thoughts & emotions that hit us throughout our day. ...

It can be tough watching someone you love struggling with depression, with no idea how best to help.  Depression can be mild,

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' How to Help Your Overweight Child' will offer a uniquely understanding & sympathetic holistic approach to childhood weight problems & contain a wide variety of practical suggestions any family will benefit from. Childhood obesity is at last attracting the attention the problem deserves. We are all experts on the causes: junk food, lack of exercise, societal pressures, emotional problems... But behind every statistic is a child who needs some help
- & this is where this timely & sympathetic book comes in. The book will gently explain what constitutes overweight, why children get fat, what children really need, & how they can be persuaded to eat well & get fit. The author shows how children can learn to take pride in their bodies & health, regain their self-respect & deal with all the problems that cause & are caused by being overweight.
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Written by an experienced Dyslexia Adviser, this practical book offers help & advice to those providing & supporting the learning of dyslexic primary school children. Full of ideas, it aims to address those questions that are most frequently asked by class teachers & SENCos. ...