A glorious, fully illustrated celebration of the London 2012 Olympic Games, with expert analysis & comment from The Times? cast of sporting experts & brought to life with sumptuous, award-winning photographs The London 2012 Olympic Games are one of the great success stories not just in British sport but beyond that. An unprecedented number of gold's won by Team GB, countless magical moments that had the nation on the edge of their seats waving flags & cheering on Britains finest, & a mood of national pride all went towards making it a unique moment in British history. In this sumptuous, fully illustrated tribute to the Games, The Times have brought together their cast of sports experts & award-winning photos to re-live the Games & celebrate everything they achieved. This is a souvenir of a treasured moment in British sporting history that allows fans to relive that incredible fortnight, page by page & medal by medal. ...

It is the place where fortunes can be made & lost though chess, backgammon
- every game under the sun.

But those whom

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For over eight hundred years, Newgate Prison was the grimly axle around which British society slowly twisted. Immortalised by Charles Dickens, this was where such legendary outlaws as Robin Hood & Captain Kidd met their fates, where the rapier-wielding playwrights Ben Jonson & Christopher Marlowe sharpened their quills, & where flamboyant highwaymen like Claude Duval & James Maclaine made legions of women swoon. By piercing together the lives of forgotten figures as well as re-examining the prison's link with more famous individuals from Dick Whittington to Daniel Defoe, this thrilling history goes in search of a ghostly place, erased by time, which has inspired more poems & plays, paintings & novels, than any other structure in British history. ...

Details: Set in the heart of the Sussex downs, Charleston Farmhouse is the most important remaining example of Bloomsbury
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Winner of the National Trust Outdoor Book of the Year 2011 The story of one man's unlikely quest to create out of a mountainous Welsh landscape a garden fit for inclusion in the prestigious Yellow Book
- the ' Gardens of England & Wales Open for Charity' guide
- in just one year. The son of two passionate gardeners, Antony Woodward was born with chlorophyll running through his veins. Unfortunately, growing up with Latin plant names took its toll, & he was ingrained early on with a profound loathing of both gardens & gardening. Buying Tair-ffynnon, a derelict smallholding 1, 300 feet up in the Black Mountains of Wales, changed everything. Hooked by its beauty
- when not buried in cloud
- Woodward battles to meet the strict requirements of the famous ' Yellow Book' in this unlikely terrain. He finds himself driven by apparently inexplicable compulsions: wood chopping, hauling a 20-tonne railway carriage up a mountain, even beekeeping. Soon, his voyage along the rocky path to his own patch of paradise takes on a more personal tenor as he unearths the deep roots linking gardening & his childhood in this warm, funny & unlikely memoir. Beautifully written & effortlessly engaging, ' The Garden in the Clouds' is a compelling read for anyone who has ever gardened
- or ever dreamt of doing so.




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A sensational bestseller when it appeared in 1986, The Garden of Eden is the last uncompleted novel of Ernest Hemingway, which he worked on intermittently from 1946 until his death in 1961. Set on the Cote d' Azur in the 1920s, it is the story of a young American writer, David Bourne, his glamorous wife, Catherine, & the dangerous, erotic game they play when they fall in love with the same woman. "A lean, sensuous narrative...taut, chic, & strangely contemporary, The Garden of Eden represents vintage Hemingway, the master doing what nobody did better" (R. Z. Sheppard, Time). ...

Every season in the garden has its compensations, whether it is the lusty resurgence of life in spring, the brimming bounty of summer, the brilliant colours of autumn or the ethereal, sculptural beauty of plants in winter. Every season also has its tasks to be performed but while some times are far busier than others, gardening is definitely a year-round occupation if the garden is going to look good 12 months a year. The gardening year divides into the four seasons of spring, summer, autumn & winter, & these are each subdivided into early, mid & late season. This book will remind you of all the things you want & need to do, & also encourage & inspire you to try out some new ideas, while reminding you of all that is best in the garden in the various seasons. But most of all The Gardener's Year will help you to enjoy every aspect of your garden & your gardening to the full, whatever the time of year. ...

Plan a garden thats pretty & productive all year round with this essential garden guide!

Gardeners Year will help you create,

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The sensuous delight of colour is one of the greatest pleasures that gardening offers. In this compact, accessible volume, Tom Fischer profiles 100 top-performing flowering plants (including perennials, bulbs & flowering shrubs) in ten different colour categories, concentrating on those that are both widely growable in a variety of climates & that are the most striking representatives of their colour group. Included are familiar favourites such as tulips & poppies as well as less common flowers such as fritillaries, corydalis & species lilies. Each entry provides a general description of the plant, including common & botanical names; height & spread; bloom time; hardiness; &, light & water requirements. Fischer also discusses what is distinctive about each plant & recommends companion plants for the garden. This information, paired with Clive Nichols' stunning photographs, makes " The Gardener's Colour Palette" an invaluable source of both practical advice & inspiration. ...

A garden is the best alternative therapy
- Germaine Greer. Seasoned gardeners, urbanites with window boxes & those who simply
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