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Huw Richard Growers Handbook
<p>Get your gardening gloves on, as best-selling author Huw Richards takes you on a green-fingered journey to be an undefeated veg-grower!</p><p>Whatever your horticultural hopes may be, Huw Richards brings you a veg-growing guide that is sure to shape the next generation of green-fingered gardeners like never before, full of top tips on smart gardening, without compromising on time, effort or money.</p>
Green Home
<p>Green up your home with Anders Royneberg's guide to creating greener, more balanced living. Living with plants can enliven and enrich your surroundings, promoting feelings of relaxation and well-being. But where to start with curating that vital indoor collection?</p><p>With a guide to houseplant types, hints and tips on how to get your plants to thrive and also on how to integrate them into your home décor scheme, it’s a plant book with added personality.</p>
Little Book Of Dior
<p>Little Book of Dior is the pocket-sized and beautifully illustrated story of 70 years of opulent fashion. Featuring Christian Dior's spectacular rise to the upper echelons of the Parisian fashion world is one of the most compelling stories of twentieth-century fashion. Dior's debut collection in 1947 invented the New Look silhouette and revolutionized the way women dressed, shopped and saw themselves.</p><p>Recounting Christian Dior's early life, the brand's inception, the triumphs of the couture collections on the catwalk and the red carpet, and the fashion house's evolution under Christian Dior's creative direction successors – Yves Saint Laurent, Marc Bohan, Gianfranco Ferré, John Galliano, Bill Gaytten, Raf Simons and Maria Grazia Chiuri – Little Book of Dior is a stylish gift for any lover of fashion.</p>
Good Vibes Good Life
<p>Join the self-love revolution with visionary writer Vex King and discover inspirational messages and universal wisdom to help you manifest positive vibes.</p><p>Vex overcame adversity to become a source of hope for thousands of young people, and now draws from his personal experience and his intuitive wisdom to inspire you. In this book, Vex will show you that when you change the way you think, feel, speak and act, you begin to change the world.</p>
My Houseplant Changed Life
<p>Use the power of the humble house plant to combat the stresses of modern life!</p><p>Succulents and indoor house plants may seem extra trendy right now, but these plants have more benefits than simply looking beautiful. Everyday products pollute the air in our homes and our mental wellbeing is threatened like never before. This gardening book reveals the best life-enhancing houseplants that can reduce stress, fight fatigue, and even lower your blood sugar.</p><p>Discover how these indoor plants can actively clean the air and improve your mental health through their colours, scent, habit, and nurturing needs.</p>
How Not To Kill Your House Plant
<p>You had one job: watering your new plant. But it's been a week and it's already dying. Fear not! This helpful guide is here to show you how to rescue your plants.</p><p>Follow the survival tips outlined in this book and you'll be on your way to having your home brimming with green life.</p><p>From identifying exactly what's in the pot, to helping it flourish and grow, this is your guide to creating an oasis of happy, flourishing houseplants.</p>
Green Simple Ideas Small Outdoors
<p>In Green, Ula Maria takes a completely fresh look at creating a garden in whatever outdoor space is available - be it a roof terrace, balcony, small back yard or patio. Perfect for first-time gardeners, the book approaches creating a garden as if decorating a room - exploring how to work with scale, colour and texture, to choosing the plants that will thrive in an urban space.</p><p>At the heart of the book are 22 genuinely small and innovative gardens with a dazzling range of ideas to copy - from a small backyard garden using reclaimed timber, evergreens and grasses to a rental rooftop terrace in the heart of the city where a cottage-style garden has been created in simple containers. Using low-maintenance plants and affordable furniture, lighting and containers, Green offers simple solutions that don't involve major structural work but will quickly result in a stylish and hugely rewarding urban sanctuary.</p>
Happiness Code
<p>At some point or other, many of us feel like we're missing something. We look at others and wonder: 'How is that person so content with their life? What do they have that I don't?' These questions are not uncommon and are asked by thousands of people every day.</p><p>In our hectic lives, we have to spend most of our time focusing on the external aspects: finishing a work deadline, worrying about relationships, the mortgage, the kids - it's no wonder we can't find the time to sleep!</p><p>The Happiness Code shows you the way to unlock your inner happiness and shed the negative veil you have been viewing not only the world through but yourself as well. A happy soul leads to a happy life, and if you apply these skills to yours, you and those closest to you will be amazed at the difference.</p>
Curry Guy BBQ
<p>In this new book, the Curry Guy, Dan Toombs, brings you his best ever recipes for cooking outdoors and on a barbecue. With simplicity in mind, most of the 100 recipes can be cooked on a kettle-style barbecue – you'll be amazed at how much can be cooked this way, no matter what the weather! Curry-house dishes and flavours work exceptionally well for grilling and live-fire cooking.</p><p>Alongside familiar meals like kebabs and skewers, naans and tandoori chicken, Dan has developed original recipes for popular street food, as well as the most popular one-pot curries that can be cooked over the fire. In addition to the recipes, there is clear information about types of barbecue, cooking techniques, fuel types, how to light your barbecue and even the basics of using a tandoor oven.</p>
Kew Puzzles Wordsearch
This delightful collection of puzzles draws on the plants in the Kew collection to make fascinating and educational wordsearches, all beautifully adorned with floral images.
Little Book Of Cacti
<p>This is a must-have guide for all cacti and succulent lovers, who already own or want to start a collection of these hardy little plants.</p><p>There are so many different cultivars of cacti and succulents to collect - each with their own needs - that the watering, feeding, potting and general care can differ from plant to plant. The Little Book of Cacti and Other Succulents features a directory of 60 of the most popular varieties of cacti and succulents to own.</p>
Little Book Of Chanel
<p>Little Book of Chanel is the pocket-sized and beautifully illustrated story of the most celebrated fashion designer in history.</p><p>Chronicling the life and legacy of Coco Chanel, one of fashion's most influential couturiers, this gorgeous book offers a fascinating account of Chanel's evolution and innovation. From her early days of millinery, through her revolutionary inventions in sportswear and jersey fashions for women, to the classics that made her name, such as the Chanel cardigan jacket, little black dress and exquisite perfumes.</p><p>Detailed photographs and sketches of Chanel's designs, along with fashion photography and catwalk shots, pay tribute to one of the world's most highly regarded fashion houses and the woman behind it, making a striking gift for any lover of fashion.</p>
Eat Drink Nap
This is the quintessential style, cooking, and home interior book from Soho House, the world's leading members club. Eat Drink Nap, is a 300-page highly illustrated book, with a foreword from founder Nick Jones, and photography from leading food and interiors photographers Mark Seelen and Jean Cazals, shares the Soho House blueprint for stylish, modern living, the Soho House way.
Crazy Plant Lady
<p>For the plant-obsessed woman of any age, this little illustrated book celebrates the delightfully quirky habits that accompany botanical passion, even addiction. Like seeing every bare surface as a reason to buy a new succulent, fern, or pileum.</p><p>Or, when planning a fabulous vacation, wondering: But who will water my plants? Author-illustrator Isabel Serna’s charming art is as bright and vibrant as the pops of colour that plants bring to your home, her text clearly inspired by being a crazy plant lady herself - put it together, and here is a perfect present for housewarmings and a great add-on to a gift of a potted plant or ceramic planter.</p>
Ikigia
<p>We all have an ikigai. It's the Japanese word for 'a reason to live' or 'a reason to jump out of bed in the morning'. It's the place where your needs, desires, ambitions, and satisfaction meet. A place of balance. Small wonder that finding your ikigai is closely linked to living longer.</p><p>Finding your ikigai is easier than you might think. This book will help you work out what your own ikigai really is, and equip you to change your life. You have a purpose in this world: your skills, your interests, your desires and your history have made you the perfect candidate for something. All you have to do is find it. Do that, and you can make every single day of your life joyful and meaningful.</p>
Monty Don Complete Gardener
<p>Even great gardeners like Monty Don are always learning and always experimenting. The Complete Gardener brings you right up to date on how Monty gardens today.</p><p>Packed with beautiful illustrations and practical gardening tips, Monty reveals the secrets of growing vegetables, fruits, flowers, and herbs while respecting the needs of the environment. He covers everything from planning the space and crop rotation to pruning fruit canes and staking peas.</p><p>Join Monty in his garden at Long Meadow! Over half of the photos included in this updated edition were shot at his renowned personal garden over the course of a year. Discover how he created this beautiful garden, and how you can do the same in your own.</p>
How To Raise A Plant & Love Back
<p>Aimed at a new generation of indoor gardening enthusiasts, this book is a perfect guide for anyone keen to see their plant offspring thrive. Plants have found popularity in the small home, and are being proclaimed the new stars of Instagram.</p><p>This attractive little book is ideal for the novice 'plant parent', providing tips on how to choose plants, and above all how to care for them and keep them thriving. Indoor-plant experts and Instagrammers Erin Harding and Morgan Doane bring the subject to life alongside their beautiful photographs of happy plants in the home.</p>
Power Of Plants
<p>Make your home your happy place with house plants. Bring the outside in. This gorgeous guide features over 80 indoor plants that will turn your house into a happy, healthy, healing home.</p><p>Discover plants that will clean the air you breathe, help you get a good night’s sleep, reduce stress and anxiety, help you get well soon, boost your brain power and bring greater joy and wellbeing into your life.</p>
Natural Home Cleaning
We are all becoming more aware of the detrimental effects of chemicals on the environment and ourselves, so 'Natural Home Cleaning: Over 100 ways to clean your home naturally' solves your cleaning problems naturally. You will find solutions for every room in your house, from disinfectants to stain removal.
Happy Orchid
<p>Happy Orchid dispels the myths around orchid care, starting with a simple, step-by-step introduction that offers tips on buying orchids and demonstrates all the essential growing techniques, including how to plant, what feed to give them - orchids are fussy eaters! - and how to water and maintain humidity.</p><p>Discover more than 120 illustrated profiles of the most desirable orchids to grow: graceful Phalaenopsis, delicate Dendrobium, spectacular Cymbidium and many more varieties.</p>