Cleve West is one of Britain's top garden designers, with six RHS gold medals to his name & a high profile Daily Telegraph sponsored garden at Chelsea Flower Show 2011. He is also a true allotmenteer, heading off to his plot whenever he can to get his hands dirty, find peace & contemplate life & nature. His book is a joy to read, humorous & humble, full of practical commonsense, & a belief in the values of community & sustainable living. There is plenty of advice here for plot holders
- often of the what-not-to-do sort & written from sorry experience
- & plenty of inspiration too in the creative ways that Cleve & his partner Christine make the most of their plot & enjoy the company of their fellow allotmenteers. There are easy to follow sections on Vegetables & Herbs, Flowers & Fruit, with recipes & troubleshooting tips as well as chapters on Community, Creativity & Children. Amply illustrated with Cleve's own beautiful photographs, fantastical drawings by Cleve & Christine & shots of the two of them at work taken by Cleve's cousin the garden photographer Derek St Romaine, Our Plot is also a visual cornucopia.

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Not only has Queen Elizabeth II, one of the most popular public figures on Earth, reigned through Britain's transformation from an imperial power to a multicultural, multimedia nation, but she has steered the Monarchy through more reforms than in the prev ...

The inside story of a thoroughly modern monarch told by the maker of ITVs upcoming documentary on Queen Elizabeth IIs jubilee. This bestselling acclaimed biography of our Queen contains previously unseen material.

History has known no monarch like her.

She has travelled farther than all her predecessors put together & lived longer than any of them. She has known more historic figures than anyone alive
- from Churchill to Mandela, de Gaulle to Obama.

Now, the distinguished royal writer Robert Hardman has been granted rare & privileged access to the world of Queen Elizabeth II to produce this enthralling new portrait of one of the most popular public figures on Earth.

So much has changed around the Queen yet she has remained utterly true to herself, says Hardman. There is this timeless quality about her. The more you talk to Her Majestys family & to her people, the more you look at her life, the more impressive the scale of her achievement becomes.

Here is the inside story.










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Have hours of fun piecing together this Our Solar System image. This picture perfect puzzle

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In this beautiful follow-up to 2012s hit, Our Garden Birds, street artist Matt Sewell offers more watercolours & quirky descriptions of British songbirds. In Matts world, the peewit sings the blues, & the bittern fills his neck like a tweed pair of bellows.

Distinctive & enchanting, with a songbird for each week of the year, this delightful gift book will appeal to birders, children & adults, & art & design fans alike.

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When Queen Elizabeth II was crowned in 1953, many proclaimed the star of a new Elizabethan Age. Few had any inkling, however, of the stupendous changes that would occur over the next 50 years, both in Britain & around the world. A. N. Wilson takes the reader on an exhilarating journey through post-war Britain. This book propels the reader from post-war austerity, to the end of the British Empire & the emergence of America as a superpower, to the multicultural Britain of today. With Our Times, Wilson triumphantly concludes the acclaimed trilogy that opened with the Victorians & was followed by After the Victorians. Our Times makes compelling reading for anyone interested in the forces that have shaped our world. This book has 484 pages & is 23.4cm x 15.9cm x 3.1cm ...

Have hours of fun piecing together this Our Universe image & learn fun facts along the way. This picture perfect puzzle



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In this powerful & moving narrative, Christopher Somerville skilfully links personal testimonies to present an epic which embraces

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As seen on the BBC’s This Farming Life!

Our Wild Farming Life is what happens when you follow your dreams of living

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An Easy Introduction to the Study of the Heavens. First published in 1928, this introduction to 'the study of the heavens'



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