Following the huge success of last summer's best-selling Wild Swimming (a guide to the very best inland dips) Punk Publishing is launching its brand new companion guide
- Wild Swimming: Coast. With this salty 'sea-quel' you can discover & enjoy over 300 magical swims adventures & days out at some of the least discovered parts of our stunning coast. From the dolphin-inhabited waters off the Cornish coast to desert islands in Norfolk award-winning author Daniel Start leads us away from the crowded commercial beaches to the lesser-known magical inlets secret smugglers' coves majestic rock formations & deep blue lagoons. Illustrated with over 250 spectacular photos & five useful maps this beautifully produced book is sure to inspire you to discover & enjoy all that's great about our British coast.
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Everybody in the unlicensed fight game knows that only one man has the honour of being titled ' Guv'nor'
- & that man is Lew '
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Wild Things is a brand new Channel 4 show that will bring botany to a whole new audience. This groundbreaking & informative programme will uncover the mysteries behind the dramatic changes in the distribution of wild plants in Britain over the last fifty years & will show how these changes affect biodiversity on a local & national scale. Did you know for example that our national tipple the gin & tonic could be under threat? Juniper bushes are disappearing in much of England & Wales
- but in Scotland it's a different story. The Wild Things will tell you the reasons for this development. This attractive illustrated book will examine the stories behind the redistribution of our plants in a variety of habitats including woodland mountains & wetlands. It will include stunning colour photographs of the plants in their native environments & will use maps from the Botanical Society of the British Isles to illustrate the striking contrast of our landscape between the present day & fifty years ago. This fascinating guide written by the botanists who present the Wild Things programme will inspire everyone to look at the world around them in a completely new way.
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Fiona Danks & Jo Schofield are back with more wonderful ideas for fun outdoors even in the most challenging weather! Imagine
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Melissa Lamb & her cousin Ernestine are at the centre of the Wild Young Bohemians an exclusive dining club at Oxford for the beautiful & ambitious. Melissa is in the grip of an obsession. Ernestine however mild & practical does not see through Melissa's ruthless determination to restore her derelict family mansion
- a Gothic legacy of lust greed & death with a spectacular secret that has slept for a hundred years. Melissa will let nothing stand in her way
- until a vengeful stranger enters their magic circle. But he is only a catalyst: the seed of evil is already sown.

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Like a wilderling
- a cultivated flower that manages to live in the wild
- Lucienne Rochford has survived her terrible early

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It's Jake's birthday. He has lost his wife his son is in prison & he is about to lose his past. Jake has Alzheimer's. As the disease takes hold of him the key events of his life shift & what until recently seemed solid fact melts into surreal imaginings. Is his daughter alive or long dead? & why exactly is his son in prison? There was a cherry tree once & a yellow dress but what do they mean? Is there anything he'll be able to salvage from the wreckage? From the first sentence to the last The Wilderness holds us in its grip. This is writing of extraordinary power & beauty. ...

Theres no need to water your garden! Or weed prune spray or dig it! In her decades of watching the bush & the animals around her & of experimenting with hundreds of new growing strategies Jackie has learnt to grow things by letting the plants
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- do most of the work for her. & with The Wilderness Garden" you can learn to do that too!"

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A leathery bog-man transforms an old love affair; a sweet gruesome gift is sent by the wife of an ex-lover; landscape paintings are haunted by the ghost of a young girl. This dazzling collection of ten short stories takes us into familiar Atwood territory to reveal the logic of irrational behaviour & the many textures lying beneath ordinary life. ...

Falling for the M.D. After his fathers death Dr Peter Wilder must fight to save his small-town hospital from a huge conglomerate. Everyone is on his side except for beautiful Bethany Holloway. Will Bethany give Dr Wilder a taste of bitter medicine
- or give in to their unmistakable fire of attraction? First-Time Valentine Ella Wilder wants to follow in her fathers footsteps & practise medicine at Walnut River General & when JD Sumner executive shatters his leg new orthopaedist Ella is on hand to help. But as the sparks fly JDs beautiful talented doctor might just be the antidote to his hardened heart. Paging Dr Daddy When hotshot plastic surgeon David Wilder assists in Walnut River his world is turned upside down by a gorgeous little girl & her captivating mother... Single mum Courtney Albright wants the best for her daughter but she cant deny the electricity between her & the bad-boy surgeon.
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