Jonathan Buckley

The authors show you how to design a kitchen garden, with plans for a range of gardens of all shapes and sizes, including potagers and large-scale vegetable plots. It includes directories of all the main vegetables, herbs and fruits, with expert advice on cultivation, crop rotation and the best varieties to use. It features step-by-step practical advice on the best tools to use, preparing the soil, sowing, transplanting, propagation, training, harvesting...

David has just spent New Year's Eve alone, watching Le Grand Concert de la Nuit, a film in which his former lover Imogen starred. In the early hours of the new year, consoled and tormented by her ethereal presence, he begins to write. What follows is a brilliantly various journal, chronicling a year in the life of a thinking man. David works as a curator at the ailing Sanderson-Perceval Museum in southern England, whose small collection of porcelain,...

His beautifully photographed guide celebrates the endless possibilities of the vegetable patch and shows that edible gardening can be both productive and stunning to behold. International gardening and cooking expert Sarah Raven shares her wealth of knowledge about how to have a bountiful-and beautiful-kitchen garden. With the belief that we should all grow more of what we eat, she imparts her experience on making the most of any outdoor space along...

This 'Rough Guide to Tuscany & Umbria' is a definitive handbook to one of Europe's most popular regions. It includes descriptions of the historic sights, up-to-the-minute reviews of hotels and restaurants, and much more.