Lancelot Brown changed the face of eighteenth-century England designing country estates & mansions moving hills & making flowing lakes & serpentine rivers a magical world of green. This English landscape style spread across Europe & the world. At home it proved so pleasing that Browns influence spread into the lowland landscape at large & into landscape painting. He stands behind our vision & fantasy of rural Engl&. In this vivid lively biography based on detailed research Jane Brown paints an unforgettable picture of the man his work his happy domestic life & his crowded world. She follows the life of the jovial yet elusive Mr Brown from his childhood & apprenticeship in rural Northumberland through his formative years at Stowe the most famous garden of the day. His innovative ideas & his affable & generous nature led to a meteoric rise to a Royal Appointment in 1764 & his clients & friends ranged from statesmen like the elder Pitt to artists & actors like David Garrick. Riding constantly across England Brown never ceased working until he collapsed & died in February 1783 after visiting one of his oldest clients. He was a practical man but also a visionary always willing to try something new. As this delightful & beautifully illustrated biography shows Brown filled England with enchantment
- follies cascades lakes bridges ornaments monuments meadows & woods
- creating views that still delight us today.

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Lancelot Brown changed the face of eighteenth-century England designing country estates & mansions moving hills & making flowing lakes & serpentine rivers a magical world of green. This English landscape style spread across Europe & the world. At home it proved so pleasing that Browns influence spread into the lowland landscape at large & into landscape painting. He stands behind our vision & fantasy of rural Engl&. In this vivid lively biography based on detailed research Jane Brown paints an unforgettable picture of the man his work his happy domestic life & his crowded world. She follows the life of the jovial yet elusive Mr Brown from his childhood & apprenticeship in rural Northumberland through his formative years at Stowe the most famous garden of the day. His innovative ideas & his affable & generous nature led to a meteoric rise to a Royal Appointment in 1764 & his clients & friends ranged from statesmen like the elder Pitt to artists & actors like David Garrick. Riding constantly across England Brown never ceased working until he collapsed & died in February 1783 after visiting one of his oldest clients. He was a practical man but also a visionary always willing to try something new. As this beautifully illustrated biography shows Brown filled England with enchantment
- follies cascades lakes bridges ornaments monuments meadows & woods
- creating views that still delight us today.

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The Collins Nature Library is a new series of classic British nature writing
- reissues of long-lost seminal works. The titles
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A fabulous slice of wartime nostalgia a facsimile edition of the manual used by the Land Girls during the Second World War. With millions of men away to fight in the Second World War Britain was struggling for labour. In order to replace the agricultural workers now fighting the Nazis the Women's Land Army (originally founded in the First World War) was relaunched in June 1939 by the Ministry of Labour. The majority of the Land Girls already lived in the countryside but more than a third came from London & the industrial cities of the north of Engl&. By the end of the war over 100 000 women of the WLA or ' Land Girls' as they were more affectionately known had helped feed the nation in its darkest hour. First published in 1941 LAND GIRL was a practical guide for the city slickers who were recruited into the Women's Land Army & sent to work on farms in the English countryside to replace the men who had joined up. An amazing period piece hundreds of thousands of copies were printed & sold & it became one of the year's best selling books. ...

With the countrys men at war it falls to the land girls to pitch in & do their bit... Stella arrives at Hallows Farm in her Rayon stockings having just waved goodbye to the love of life
- naval officer Philip. Agatha has just graduated from Cambridge; life on the Farm is certainly going to offer her a different kind of education. Prue a hairdresser from Manchester is used to painting the town red not manual labour. Joe dreams of leaving the family farm & becoming a fighter pilot. But with the arrival of these three beautiful young women theres enough to keep him busy on the farm for the time being... Work is hard & the effects of war start to take their toll on the three women. But as the bonds of friendship start to form & excitement builds as the RAF dance looms maybe life in the countryside isnt so bad after all?
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A New York Times bestseller & winner of the UK's John Creasey Award for Debut Crime Novel of the Year. Mesmerizing. Intensely felt & beautifully told". (New York Times). One Sunday nine-year-old Jess Hall watches in horror as his autistic brother is smothered during a healing service in the mountains of North Carolina. Wiley Cash uses this haunting image
- inspired by a horrific true event
- to spin us into a spellbinding heartbreaking story about cruelty & innocence & the failure of faith & family to protect a child. This is a novel thick with stories & characters connected by faith infidelity & a sense of hope that is both tragic & unforgettable."

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The world's most famous travelling reporter sets out for the Middle East in his latest adventure. Boom! Doctored petrol is blowing up vehicles all around the country. Determined to find the culprits Tintin heads for the Middle East but he is in for a nasty shock when he encounters a familiar face in the desert. Join the most iconic character in comics as he embark on an extraordinary adventure spanning historical & political events & thrilling mysteries. Still selling over 100 000 copies every year in the UK & having been adapted for the silver screen by Steven Spielberg & Peter Jackson in 2011 The Adventures of Tintin continue to charm more than 80 years after they first found their way into publication. Since then an estimated 230 million copies have been sold proving that comic books have the same power to entertain children & adults in the 21st century as they did in the early 20th. ...

Judith & her father dont have much
- their house is full of dusty relics reminders of the mother shes never known. But Judith sees
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An extraordinary & peculiarly haunting novel". (Chris Cleave author of " The Other Hand"). My name is Judith Mc Pherson. I am ten years old. On Monday a miracle happened. Judith doesnt have much. The house she shares with her devoutly religious father is full of dusty relics reminders of the mother Judith never knew. Bullied at school she finds comfort in creating a miniature world in her bedroom
- a world of wonder she calls The Land of Decoration. Perhaps she thinks if she makes it snow in The Land of Decoration there will be no school on Monday. Sure enough when Judith opens her curtains the next day the world beyond her window has turned white. & thats when her troubles begin. See Judys Review See Richards Review Download A Sample Chapter Of The Land of Decoration See Grace Mc Cleen talk about her book Exclusive Bonus Content Write a Review for The Land of Decoration Judys Review This is such an eerie funny thought-provoking book. What if miracles are real? What if a little girl can perform them? How would she use such power? & what if she believes God is speaking directly to her when she is alone in her room? Judith wrestles with such questions. Remorselessly bullied by her sadistic classmate Neil & his posse of followers Judith realises she has the power to work her revenge on them. But she worries that her strength should only be used for good. God comes to the rescue. Theres the Old Testament you know he tells her in one of their conversations. (These are very funny by the way). Eye for eye; tooth for tooth... I got tired of being messed around you see. If people hurt Me I hurt them back. Its My Fundamental Law. Judith doesnt need telling twice. Neil & his horrible gang arent going to know what hits them. But at the very heart of this compelling story is Judiths relationship with her father. It is deep & complicated & often difficult but it revolves around powerful elemental love. The closing pages are truly affecting & a demonstration of what a child is prepared to do for a parent they believe needs to be saved. Even from Armageddon. Richards Review
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A RICHARD & JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK 2013 ' An extraordinary & peculiarly haunting novel' Chris Cleave author of The Other Hand My name is Judith Mc Pherson. I am ten years old. On Monday a miracle happened. Judith doesn't have much. The house she shares with her devoutly religious father is full of dusty relics reminders of the mother Judith never knew. Bullied at school she finds comfort in creating a miniature world in her bedroom
- a world of wonder she calls The Land of Decoration. Perhaps she thinks if she makes it snow in The Land of Decoration there will be no school on Monday. Sure enough when Judith opens her curtains the next day the world beyond her window has turned white. & that's when her troubles begin.
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