Home & Garden Books
Scribner Book Company Home Comforts The Art and Science of Keeping
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£22.80
Simon & Schuster A Queen for All Seasons
Book SynopsisThe "Queen of Clean" presents a year's supply of practical cleaning, housekeeping, and gardening tips, including advice on how to allergy-proof a home, clean jewelry, stress-proof the holidays, and create natural fertilizers.
£9.90
Simon & Schuster Talking Dirty with the Queen of Clean
Book SynopsisIn a revised and updated edition of the housekeeping classic, the Queen of Clean offers advice on how to clean a multitude of household objects, including everything from the kitchen sink to leather car upholstery, and provides tips on how to use tea to clean wood and vinegar to remove rust. Origin
£13.39
DK My Houseplant Changed My Life
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£13.49
DK Grow Easy Vegetables
Book SynopsisDiscover how to grow it yourself with experts tips, simple step-by-step guides and gorgeous illustrations in this fantastic veg-growing guideGrowing your own vegetables is a rewarding venture that’s both affordable and delicious, but a novice gardener might not know where to begin. This is your no-fuss guide to vegetable gardening.Do you want to learn how to start and sustain your own vegetable garden throughout the year? This vegetable gardening book for beginners will help you choose and care for more than 40 different varieties, all specially selected for successful growing. You don't have to be a horticulture expert to get started, this indispensable reference book will take you through every single step! It includes: • Tips on how to care for more than 40 different vegetable varieties • Practical, jargon-free know-how and simple gardening techniques
£11.69
DK How to Garden When You Rent
Book SynopsisTransform your garden into your own and feel at home even when you are renting.Your outdoor space does not need to look dull when you are renting your home. You can still brighten it up with a tailored gardening guide designed especially for your gardening needs. Find some gardening inspiration! This simple, easy-to-follow gardening book will help you achieve an impressive garden. Inside, you’ll find: • Three central chapters focus on different rental lease lengths, each showcasing key plant types. • Gallery of inspirational ideas for front and back gardens, balconies and patios, and any other available outdoor spaces the reader can plant up and enjoy. • Essential planning chapter to encourage readers to identify what they can achieve in their rental garden, how much time they have to make it happen, and how much money they want to spend.
£16.99
DK How to Garden New Edition A Practical
Book SynopsisWhatever your level of expertise, you'll find everything you need to know in this easy-to-follow gardening guide.This book contains the principles of good gardening - how plants work and how to give them what they need, as well as step-by-step advice, top tips, and essential techniques.Keen on starting your own garden or looking for gardening tips to improve your existing gardening skills? This simple guide will show you where to start, what tools and techniques to use, and how to troubleshoot common garden problems. From bulbs to borders, weeds to watering, pick up gardening techniques, practical basics, and simple skills which will have your garden blooming, this gardening guide is the perfect text to help you master the essentials of gardening.Start A Garden And Watch It GrowShare in the delight of gardening when you start using RHS How to Garden New Edition as your guide. You’ll quickly become engrossed in the fun, re
£22.50
DK Crochet Step by Step
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£17.09
DK Woodwork Step by Step
Book SynopsisTrade Review"[P]erfect for the first-timer, novice, or those who may want to resume an earlier love and anyone who loves the beauty of wood." – The Urban News
£16.19
DK Grow Compost
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£11.69
DK Grow Houseplants
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£11.69
DK Hydroponics for Beginners
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£17.59
DK Companion Planting for Beginners
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£17.99
DK The Vegetable Growers Handbook
Book SynopsisGarden efficiently and grow more food - Huw Richards shows you how.Following the success of Veg in One Bed and Grow Food for Free, in The Vegetable Grower's Handbook Huw shares his tried-and-tested approaches from his own garden so you can unearth your garden's potential.With simple yet effective methods, such as nurturing healthy soil, optimizing space, and following a planting plan, anyone can be a productive vegetable grower while working in harmony with nature. As well as Huw's recommendations on good planning and infrastructure, he has tips for plenty of quick wins too, such as how to attract beneficial pollinators.You'll be amazed at what you can achieve by setting goals, planning ahead, and trialling new ideas. Every successful business has a strategy. Why not apply one to your vegetable patch?
£19.99
DK Grow Herbs
Book SynopsisDiscover a wide variety of herbs you can grow successfully at home. Ideal for first-time gardeners, Grow Herbs contains everything you need to know to grow a wide variety of perennial and annual herbs. Learn how to sow, grow, harvest, and propagate your plants, with advice on caring for home-grown herbs as well as tips on making the most of store-bought pots. Explore a huge variety of herbs available to home gardeners with a wide-ranging directory, including popular herbs such as mint, basil, and sage as well as lesser-grown options like shiso and bergamot.Packed with practical, jargon-free know-how, this easy-to-use guide has everything you need to know to help your garden Grow.
£11.69
DK Flight
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£40.00
DK The Bees Birds Butterflies Sticker Anthology
Book SynopsisCapture the delicate beauty of flora and fauna with this enchanting collection of stickers.Enjoy over a thousand vintage drawings that encapsulate the majesty of a wild country garden. Detailed illustrations of picturesque landscapes and gorgeous woodland portray the simple beauty of the great outdoors.This luxuriously bound hardback book with decorative foil is the perfect gift for crafters, scrapbookers, and those who enjoy beautiful imagery of the natural world.Use these beautiful stickers to decorate your personal items or simply enjoy this book as an exquisite keepsake.
£25.19
DK Succulents
Book SynopsisWith their unique shapes and striking colors, succulents make the most beautiful houseplants. They are simple to care for and grow easily indoors—perfect for novice plant caretakers and seasoned gardeners alike. Succulents is your photographic, step-by-step guide to selecting, potting, and caring for your succulent plants.From cacti to aloe to echeveria, succulents have captured the hearts of crafters, decorators, and plant lovers all over the world. Always popular as an outdoor plant in warm climates, succulents have also found popularity as an indoor plant that requires little maintenance and is fun to look at. This book includes: • Snapshots of 100 of the most popular varieties of succulent plants, including care, color, hardiness, pairing, and a full-color photo for each. • Everything needed to select, pair, pot, and care for succulent plants. • 16 beauti
£18.69
DK Roses
Book SynopsisCelebrating the very best of roses, including the right varieties to choose and how to grow them. With more than 30,000 different types of roses available to gardeners across the world, how do you find the right one for your garden? A rose is one of the most beautiful, versatile, and rewarding plants that a gardener can grow. Roses is a joyous celebration of this garden icon that brings together stunning photography of rose gardens and displays from across the world with practical, expert advice on how to choose, grow, and enjoy roses in any garden, anywhere. Far more than a basic guide to rose cultivation, this invaluable guide teaches gardeners how they can make the most of their garden’s unique qualities, from practical considerations like soil and climate to the mood and style of the space. With the book’s unique “rose selector” section, readers can identify the ideal roses for their gar
£30.00
DK No Dig
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£32.00
DK Hortus Curious
Book SynopsisCelebrate the weird, wacky, and wonderful world of plants with a book that revels in the diversity of the botanical world.Plants are truly awe-inspiring. They can be vast, minute, smelly, or spectacularly ugly. Some plants live on their own, or by growing off others; some live by air and water; others are carnivorous, eating the creatures around them; some plants look remarkably like animals; while others have unusual symbolism; and some have special cultural significance. This book explores them all, bringing together the most peculiar and most fascinating plants on the planet – celebrating them in all their diverse splendor.Split into five chapters, covering everything from poisonous plants to painkilling ones, Michael Perry explains exactly what makes each plant special. With exquisitely detailed illustrations of all the different species, this is an informative, humorous, and beautiful gift for all those who love plants – whether they want to grow
£18.40
DK Encyclopedia of Gardening
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£67.50
DK Star Wars 100 Objects
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£21.25
DK Flower Porn
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£23.74
DK Tiny House Designing Building and Living
Book SynopsisDo you have what it takes to live tiny?Do you dream of simplifying your life, freeing up your financial resources and ditching all of the clutter in your life? Learn the ins and outs of what it really takes to achieve the dream of designing, building and living in a tiny house of 400 square feet or less!Tiny house professionals, Gabriella and Andrew Morrison, have been involved in the trade for over 20 years, helping others to construct their own tiny homes. They have instilled all of their expertise and firsthand experience into this newly updated guide.Tiny House Designing, Building & Living is the one-stop manual into the innovative concept of minimalist living. There are dozens of helpful images and a full-color insert displaying different varieties of tiny houses to help you conceptualize your dream.In this newly updated guide you'll discover: • Advice on how to embrace the tiny house lifestyle!• Ho
£17.59
DK Cannabis
Book SynopsisCultivate your personal cannabis crop with expert techniques and know-how.As marijuana laws in the United States become less restrictive, even more people are searching for basic marijuana gardening instructions. Cultivating marijuana isn''t like growing other plants, especially if you desire maximum potency and yield. It requires special care from the soil, water and nutrients to the temperature, light and ventilation around the plants. Growing Marijuana covers it all-in a simple, concise way to help you increase both the quality and yield of your personal harvest.Here''s what you''ll find in this updated and visual guide:- Instructions on how to grow and maintain a small marijuana garden for your own noncommercial use- More than 500 full-color photos and illustrations- The full spectrum of options available for growing marijuana, from indoor, climate-controlled systems to open-air and outdoor growing- Time-tested and modern methods for strain selection, disease and pest prevention and proper plant nutrition- Expert advice to yield a consistent and dependable supply of buds
£17.09
DK A Home for Every Season
Book SynopsisCelebrate each season with styling inspiration and simple DIY projects for a festive and cozy home every month of the year.Join Steffy Degreff as she invites you on a year-long tour of her thoughtfully designed living spaces-an A-frame cabin in the Catskill Mountains and a Cape style home in Long Beach, New York. You''ll learn how to use decorative elements to create a home that feels warm and inviting.For each month, Steffy shares styling tips to reflect the seasonal changes and showcase your personal aesthetic, from the addition of whimsical vintage pieces to a spring table setting or mini pumpkins placed around a room in creative ways for fall. Enhance both the interior and exterior of your home with:- 50 tips on styling your space with coordinating colors, textures, patterns, and more- 25 DIY projects including everything from hanging flowers to cabinet wreaths- 12 months of ideas showcasing fun ways to swap out your home décor- 8 diffe
£26.99
DK Safe and Sound
Book Synopsis#1 New York Times BestsellerDon''t panic-Mercury Stardust, AKA The Trans Handy Ma''am is here to help!For too many people, the simple act of contacting a plumber or repair person can feel like a game of chance. As a transwoman and a professional maintenance technician, Mercury Stardust has discovered (the hard way) that we live in a world with much to fear. If you''ve ever felt panicked about opening your home to strangers in order to fix a maintenance issue, this book is for you.Renting a home can be a complex process-from finding a safe and affordable space, to hiring help for moving and out, and of course, managing any repairs that come up during your stay. You deserve to feel empowered to take matters into your own hands-and it''s not as hard as you might think. In this book, Mercury will show you how to tackle the projects that need improvement in your home-from how to properly fix a clog in your bathroom sink and safely hang
£18.00
DK Veg in One Bed New Edition
Book SynopsisGrow your own vegetable garden with this practical, straightforward gardening guide.There is nothing more fulfilling than growing your own home produce. You don't have to be a seasoned gardener to produce a healthy, flourishing garden - all you need is a few seeds, water, sunlight, good advice and patience!In just one raised bed, author Huw Richards, shows you exactly how to grow vegetables organically, abundantly and inexpensively so you have something to harvest every month of the year. Here's what you'll find inside:- Month-by-month guide to what to do and how to do it, including what pests to look out for, and what can be harvested. - Covers first year in detail, with the final chapter on ‘Next Steps’ providing suggestions of what to do in years two and three.- Illustrations show you what the bed should look like month to month.- Windowsill planting ensures early success cultivating plants before they are tr
£24.00
DK Crystals and Gems
Book SynopsisDiscover the history of precious, semi-precious, and organic gemstones, their scientific properties, their mythical powers, and their traditional uses.Humans have been beguiled and fascinated by gemstones and crystals since prehistory, and made use of them for everything from currency and ceremonial decoration to tokens of love or power. But why have some been considered more significant than others – rare or otherwise? Learn all about the key characteristics of precious and semi-precious stones, and discover the science behind some of their more unusual and mysterious properties, and the various ways in which they have taken on powerful symbolic meanings. How did the Vikings use iolite to help them steer their ships, for example? Why did the Ancient Greeks and Romans believe that sardonyx could protect them in battle?Dive deep into the pages of this curated crystal book to discover:- A quirky and compelling angle on the sub
£15.29
DK The Winter Garden
Book SynopsisGet more out of your garden in winter by planning, creating and planting a beautiful outside spaceUnlock your garden’s winter potential and see the beauty and promise of the colder months with award-winning garden designer and author Naomi Slade.There is so much to marvel at in a winter garden. As summer flowers fade and autumn winds strip trees bare, the season brings new delights to draw us outside, from the dusting of frost on bare seedheads and the long-reaching shadows cast by a December dawn to the joy of huddling up beside a fire pit to see in the New Year.RHS The Winter Garden is a celebration of the coldest season, with stunning photography that captures the very best that winter has to offer. Discover the bulbs that will bloom and the ornamental grasses that will dance in the winter breeze; create unique winter flower arrangements with cut stems and dried flowers; and learn how to design a garden with winter beauty at its hea
£32.00
DK Encyclopedia of Landscape Design
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£32.84
DK The SelfSufficient Life and How to Live It
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£34.00
DK Houseplant
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£32.00
DK How Not to Kill Your Houseplant New Edition
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£14.44
DK Beginner Gardening Step by Step
Book SynopsisTrade Review“For those wishing to get started growing flowers and foliage, lawns, climbers, shrubs, grasses, small trees, vegetables, herbs, or fruit, this is an excellent and easy-to-use resource.” —Booklist Online
£21.25
DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) The Raised Bed Book
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£24.00
DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) Grow Shade Garden
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£13.49
DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) El Huerto Autosuficiente Grow Food for Free
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£21.24
DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) Wildflowers
£24.00
The Indoor Gardener
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£8.99
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Hairbrained
Book SynopsisFrom 'Alive & Klippin' to 'Barber Blacksheep' and 'Bright 'n' Bleach' to 'Curl up and Dry', an affectionate and hilarious book of over 150 full-colour photographs of UK hairdressers' shop fronts
£7.59
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC House Proud Hip Craft for the Modern Homemaker
Book SynopsisAims to show how to produce vintage-scarf cushions, sexy hostess aprons, personalised decoupage tables and more from things you already own. This book also shows how to create batik wind wheels for your garden, and give your hallway an art deco edge with mirror stairs.Trade Review'Danielle Proud is the Nigella of homemaking' Sunday Times Style Magazine 'Danielle Proud is the unofficial doyenne of the new craft movement' Guardian 'Proud has pioneered a hip make-it-yourself aesthetic that is set to revolutionise our homes' Sunday Times 'Danielle's a mean macrame queen ... and trendier than Martha Stewart' Dazed and Confused
£11.69
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Veg Patch River Cottage Handbook No4
Book SynopsisIn the fourth River Cottage handbook, Mark Diacono tells us everything we need to know to create our own productive, organic garden, no matter where we liveTrade Review'My team at River Cottage really know how to find and cook good, fresh food. Together we are creating a series of handbooks crammed with expert information. They will be passionate, but practical so that you can have a really useful book to hand whenever you feel the urge to forage, preserve, bake, grow or cook' Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall
£15.29
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Morville Hours The Story of a Garden
Book SynopsisThe Sunday Times bestsellerTrade Review‘A magical book. I have read it twice now. I love the richness of Katherine Swift's prose; the flashes of her family's story that are scattered through the deliciously written text; the gorgeous detail. The Morville Hours is the most beautiful book I have read in years' * Nigel Slater *‘An intriguing, magical story of a place, a person and her plants' * Anna Pavord, author of The Naming of Names *‘A truly remarkable book that is both intimate and universal. We are left with a renewed sense of what it is to be human, and of how we make our place in a world that is intricate, unpredictable and filled with quotidian mysteries' * Daily Telegraph *‘This is gardening writing at its best. Swift's prose brings the garden alive in all its details, scents and meaning ... Evocative, heartfelt and magical' * Guardian *
£15.29
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Embroidered Georgian Pictures
Book SynopsisThis book shows the variety of subjects and techniques of embroidered pictures in the Georgian period in Britain (1714-1830).Table of ContentsEighteenth century embroidery; Biblical pictures; Pastoral scenes; Theatrical and literary scenes; Memorial pictures; Needlepainting; Needlework furnishings; Other techniques; Further reading
£6.99
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC British Family Cars 1950s 60s
Book SynopsisWith the end of the Second World War it was not long before increasing wealth, cheaper cars, and social pressures made a family car the aspiration of thousands. Ford, Hillman, Standard, Morris and Vauxhall became household names. This illustrated book looks at the British cars that were available to the post-war family.
£8.54
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Topiary
Book SynopsisTopiary, the art of creating sculpture in clipped plants, originated with the Romans, who employed ''toparii'' to clip their hedges. The fashion traveled throughout Europe in the Renaissance, using rosemary, lavender and hyssop as well as the more traditional evergreens of yew, holly, myrtle and box. Louis XIV''s Versailles was a triumph of art over nature, and in the low countries cone and lollipop shapes formed, and soon hopped around the globe to populate the gardens of England and America.However, as the fervor for ''natural'' landscapes swept through Europe, eighteenth century nurserymen were left with serried ranks of overgrown topiary figures. Fashion mocked the few gardeners who continued to clip, and in 1890 William Robinson claimed that ''a man with shears in his hands is doing fool''s work. But as ''ye old Englishe garden'' found favor again, so the chess pieces, crowns and artful peacocks broke cover, often claiming an unbroken history of clipping by generations of gardeners. Even Gertrude Jekyll, that doyen of the flowery border, had her favorite topiary yew cat. Despite box disease and labor shortages, topiary has seen a revival in the twenty-first century, and amateurs in the art can purchase ''preformed'' rabbits and deer to graze suburban lawns.
£8.54
