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Malcolm Hillier draws on his immense creative energy to present a dazzling array of design ideas that prove container displays can be exciting and invaluable sources of garden colour in...

This guide provides a selection of 1500 of the best, easiest to grow and most readily available garden plants, including trees, shrubs, roses, perennials, bulbs and annuals. Each chapter contains...

Immediately following John and Carolyn Bessette Kennedy's tragic deaths, RoseMarie Terenzio-personal assistant and publicist to John F. Kennedy, Jr.-was bombarded with seven figure offers to tell her intimate story about...

Armstrong's Handbook of Human Resource Management Practice is the bestselling and definitive resource for HRM students and professionals, which helps readers to understand and implement HR in relation to the...

'The feeling that the very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world ... this prospect frightens me much more than bombs'On the 70th anniversary of George Orwell's...

Ruby Wax has a reputation for being one of TV's funniest and most notorious interviewers. Her up-front style is shockingly direct and her encounters with the rich and famous gripped...

Joe Queenan's acerbic riffs on movies, sports, books, politics, and many of the least forgivable phenomena of pop culture have made him one of the most popular humorists and commentators...

An indispensable companion for readers, writers, and even casual users of the language, the Penguin Modern Classics edition of Kingsley Amis's The King's English features a new introduction by Martin...

Renowned visionary and theorist bell hooks began her exploration of the meaning of love in American culture with the critically acclaimed All About Love: New Visions. She continued her national...

What do our gardens say about us?Monty Don has spent many years travelling the world, from America to Japan, from Italy and the Adriatic to Spain and the Mediterranean, getting...

Washington Is Burning reveals the inner workings of Trump's Washington - a grotesque carnival of corruption. Andrew Cockburn sets fire to US pieties, focusing on the spectacular greed at the...

The thrilling chronicle of two of the most influential and glamorous women in nineteenth-century Europe.When they married Emperors Franz Joseph and Napoleon III, respectively, Elisabeth of Austria and Eugenie of...

A WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR'A compelling tale . . . Brilliantly insightful and well-written.' - TimesFernande Olivier, Olga Khokhlova, Marie-Therese Walter, Dora Maar, Francoise Gilot, and Jacqueline Roque. These...

John Edward Redmond (1856-1918) was next to Eamon de Valera, the longest- serving national leader of the Irish nationalist community in the twentieth century. As chairman of the Irish Parliamentary...

''A sweeping tour-de-force of investigative journalism'' - Time magazineIn 2011, in a city in northern Syria, a small group of men and women began a movement that overthrew a brutal...

Flowering shrubs are one of the most important features in your garden. The Flowering Shrub Expert contains a complete illustrated A-Z of flowering shrubs and offers advice on: How to...

A wartime romance, survival saga and murder mystery set in rural France during the First World War. Four young British soldiers find themselves trapped behind enemy lines at the height...

'Effortless and compelling, Brooks is a wonderful storyteller. I doubt I will read a better book this year.' Sunday TelegraphEach of Vermeer's paintings tells a story. In one, a military...

`There followed a blue flash accompanied by a ver y bright magnesium-type flare ... Then came a frighteningly loud but rather flat explosion, which was followed by a blast of...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2025'Compulsively interesting and beautifully written - there is something to treasure on every page. I absolutely loved it'...

In England, perhaps more than most places, people's engagement with the landscape is deeply felt and has often been expressed through artistic media. The popularity of walking and walking clubs...

Think of stonecarving in Ireland and it won't be long before the name Seamus Murphy comes to mind. In one of the oldest traditions in the world, Seamus carved his...

'Bright, beautiful and achievable' - Mary Berry'A swoon-inducing, endlessly useful book' - The GardenTips, tricks and everything you could possibly wish to know about planning, growing and arranging your own...