Sarah Raven: A Year Full of Flowers: Gardening for all seasons
John Harris: The Natural Gardener: A Lifetime of Gardening by the Phases of the Moon
Rowan Blossom: Living with Flowers: Blooms & Bouquets for the Home
Huw Richards: Veg in One Bed: How to Grow an Abundance of Food in One Raised Bed, Month by Month
Jackie Bennett: The Writer's Garden: How Gardens Inspired our Best-loved Authors
Caroline Zoob: Virginia Woolf's Garden: The Story of the Garden at Monk's House
Debora Robertson: Gifts from the Garden: 100 Gorgeous Homegrown Presents
Marilyn Brown: Scotland's Lost Gardens: From the Garden of Eden to the Stewart Palaces
Laetitia Maklouf: Sweetpeas for Summer: How to Create a Garden in a Year
Allyson Hayward: Norah Lindsay: The Life and Art of a Garden Designer
Catherine Horwood: Gardening Women: Their Stories from 1600 to the Present
Jane Brown: The Pursuit of Paradise: A Social History of Gardens and Gardening
Kathryn Bradley-Hole: Lost Gardens of England (From the Archives of "Country Life")
William Milliken: Flora Celtica: Plants and People in Scotland
Monty Don: The Jewel Garden: A Story of Despair and Redemption
Leslie Geddes-Brown: Chelsea: The Greatest Flower Show on Earth (RHS)
Flora Shedden: Aran: Recipes and Stories from a Bakery in the Heart of Scotland
Marte Marie Forsberg: The Cottage Kitchen: Cozy Cooking in the English Countryside
Marianne Stewart: Nourish Cakes: Baking with a Healthy Twist
Flora Shedden: Gatherings: recipes for feasts great and small
Sarah Raven: Good Good Food: Recipes to Help You Look, Feel and Live Well
Nigel Slater: A Year of Good Eating: The Kitchen Diaries III
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall: River Cottage Light & Easy - Healthy Recipes for Every Day
Carina Contini: Carina Contini's Kitchen Garden Cookbook: A Year of Italian Scots Recipes
Maria Elia: Full of Flavour: Create . . . How to Think Like a Chef
Kate Colquhoun: Taste: The Story of Britain Through Its Cooking
Caroline Shenton: National Treasures: Saving The Nation's Art in World War II
Ed. Edward Blishen: The Thorny Paradise: Writers on Writing for Children
Victoria Finlay: Fabric: The Hidden History of the Material World
Fiona Gell: Spring Tides: Exploring Marine Life on the Isle of Man
Emma Bridgewater: Toast & Marmalade: Stories From the Kitchen Dresser, A Memoir
Richard Mabey: Turning the Boat for Home: A life writing about nature
Nicholas Jubber: The Fairy Tellers: A Journey into the Secret History of Fairy Tales
Juliet Nicolson: The Great Silence: 1918-1920 Living in the Shadow of the Great War
Cliff Seruntine: Seasons of the Sacred Earth: Following the Old Ways on an Enchanted Homestead
Cathy Rentzenbrink: Dear Reader: The Comfort and Joy of Books
Clare Pollard: Fierce Bad Rabbits: The Tales Behind Children's Picture Books
Francesca Wade: Square Haunting: Five Women, Freedom and London between the Wars
Fiona Stafford, ed.: Stories of Trees, Woods, and the Forest (Everyman's Library POCKET CLASSICS)
Burkeman, Oliver: Four Thousand Weeks: Time and How to Use It
Nicholas Royle: White Spines: Confessions of a Book Collector
Kathleen Hart: Devorgilla Days: A memoir of hope and healing
Emily Midorikawa: Out of the Shadows: Six Visionary Victorian Women in Search of a Public Voice
Martin Gayford: Spring Cannot be Cancelled: David Hockney in Normandy
Kevin Telfer: Peter Pan's First XI: The Extraordinary Story of J.M. Barrie's Cricket Team
Patricia & Robert Malcolmson (eds): A Vicar's Wife in Oxford, 1938-1943: The Diary of Madge Martin
Ursula Buchan: A Green and Pleasant Land: How England’s Gardeners Fought the Second World War
John Harris: The Natural Gardener: A Lifetime of Gardening by the Phases of the Moon
Benedict Macdonald & Nicholas Gates: Orchard: A Year in England’s Eden
Alex Preston & Neil Gower: As Kingfishers Catch Fire: Birds & Books
Adrian Tinniswood: The Long Weekend: Life in the English Country House Between the Wars
Jennifer Kloester: Georgette Heyer: The Biography of a Bestseller
Julie Summers: Our Uninvited Guests: The Secret Life of Britain's Country Houses 1939-45
Daniel Goleman & Richard Davidson: The Science of Meditation
Artemis Cooper: Elizabeth Jane Howard: A Dangerous Innocence
Peter Fiennes: Footnotes: A Journey Round Britain in the Company of Great Writers
Tom Mole: The Secret Life of Books: Why They Are More Than Words
The Penguin Book of Christmas Stories: From Hans Christian Andersen to Angela Carter
Dorothy Dunnett: The Game Of Kings: The Lymond Chronicles Book One
Louise DeSalvo: Art of Slow Writing: Reflections on Time, Craft, & Creativity
Katherine Rundell: Why You Should Read Children's Books, Even Though You Are So Old and Wise
Esther Rutter: This Golden Fleece: A Journey Through Britain's Knitted History
Ursula Buchan: Beyond the Thirty-Nine Steps: A Life of John Buchan
Will Williams: The Effortless Mind: Meditation for the Modern World
Allan Ahlberg: The Bucket: Memories of an Inattentive Childhood
Kamin Mohammadi: Bella Figura: How to Live, Love and Eat the Italian Way
Esther De Waal: Living on the Border: Reflections on the Experience of Threshold
Kate Humble: Thinking on My Feet: The small joy of putting one foot in front of another
Ryder Carroll: The Bullet Journal Method: Track Your Past, Order Your Present, Plan Your Future
Susan David: Emotional Agility: Get Unstuck, Embrace Change and Thrive in Work and Life
Rachael Matthews: The Mindfulness in Knitting: Meditations on Craft and Calm
Drabble et al.: Writers as Readers: A Celebration of Virago Modern Classics
Melissa Harrison, ed.: Spring: An Anthology for the Changing Seasons
Laura Freeman: The Reading Cure: How Books Restored My Appetite
Susan Hill: Jacob's Room is Full of Books: A Year of Reading
Pete Brown: The Apple Orchard: The Story of Our Most English Fruit
Héctor García & Francesc Miralles: Ikigai: The Japanese secret to a long and happy life
Ken Mogi: The Little Book of Ikigai: The essential Japanese way to finding your purpose in life
John Eliot Gardiner: Music in the Castle of Heaven: A Portrait of Johann Sebastian Bach
Rosamond Richardson: Waiting for the Albino Dunnock: How birds can change your life
Michael Morpurgo: Singing for Mrs Pettigrew: A Storymaker's Journey
Nagisa Tatsumi: The Art of Discarding: How to get rid of clutter and find joy
Henry Marsh: Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery
A S Byatt: Peacock and Vine: Fortuny and Morris in Life and at Work
Roger Lancelyn Green: Tellers of tales: children's books and their authors from 1800-1964
Humphrey Carpenter: Secret Gardens: A Study of the Golden Age of Children's Literature
Linda Lear: Beatrix Potter: The extraordinary life of a Victorian genius
James Rebanks: The Shepherd's Life: A Tale of the Lake District
Ann Morgan: Reading the World: Confessions of a Literary Explorer
Alexander McCall Smith: A Work of Beauty: Alexander McCall Smith's Edinburgh
Vita Sackville-West & Sarah Raven: Vita Sackville-West's Sissinghurst: The Creation of a Garden
Philip Walling: Counting Sheep: A Celebration of the Pastoral Heritage of Britain
Wendy Cope: Life, Love and the Archers: Recollections, Reviews and Other Prose
Matthew Dennison: Behind the Mask: The Life of Vita Sackville-West
Kevin Crossley-Holland: The Hidden Roads: A Memoir of Childhood
Robert Louis Stevenson: The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde
Stewart MacKay: The Angel of Charleston: Grace Higgens, Housekeeper to the Bloomsbury Group
Caroline Zoob: Virginia Woolf's Garden: The Story of the Garden at Monk's House
Carolyne Larrington & Diane Purkiss: Magical Tales: Myth, Legend and Enchantment in Children's Books
Gyles Brandreth: The 7 Secrets of Happiness: An Optimist's Journey
Joan Bodger: How the Heather Looks: A Joyous Journey to the British Sources of Children's Books
Emily Rapp: The Still Point of the Turning World: A Mother's Story
Jon McGregor: This Isn't The Sort Of Thing That Happens To Someone Like You
Robert Macfarlane: Mountains of the Mind: a History of a Fascination
Alexander McCall Smith: Trains and Lovers: The Heart's Journey
Jean-Claude Ellena: The Diary of a Nose: A Year in the Life of a Parfumeur
Kate Summerscale: Mrs Robinson's Disgrace: The Private Diary of a Victorian Lady
Alexander McCall Smith: The Limpopo Academy Of Private Detection
James Runcie: Sidney Chambers and the Shadow of Death (The Grantchester Mysteries)
Wendy Jones: The Thoughts & Happenings of Wilfred Price, Purveyor of Superior Funerals
Lyndall Gordon: Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson and Her Family's Feuds
Ann Patchett: The Getaway Car: A Practical Memoir About Writing and Life
Oliver Burkeman: Help!: How to Become Slightly Happier and Get a Bit More Done
Molly Peacock: The Paper Garden: Mrs Delany Begins Her Life's Work at 72
Robertson Davies: The Cornish Trilogy - Vol. I: The Rebel Angels
David Allen: Getting Things Done: How to Achieve Stress-free Productivity
Robert Sackville-West: Inheritance: The Story of Knole and the Sackvilles
Edmund de Waal: The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance
Amanda Vickery: Behind Closed Doors: At Home in Georgian England
Charlotte Brontë: Jane Eyre
~ For discussion from Saturday, 25th. April
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Bright spots in the day: well, I've just eaten a very good muffin (recipe later), there's been some knitting (not quite enough to merit a picture yet, but soon) and here's some joyous music, the brightest spot beginning at 4 mins. 56 secs.
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David Torrance: Inside Edinburgh: Discovering the Classic Interiors of Edinburgh
J Gifford: Edinburgh (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Scotland)
John Harris: No Voice from the Hall: Early Memories of a Country House Snooper
Elizabeth Cumming: Hand, Heart and Soul: The Arts and Crafts Movement in Scotland
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Susan Mansfield and Alistair Moffat: The Great Tapestry of Scotland: The Making of a Masterpiece
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Yoshiko Jinzenji: Quilting Line + Color: Techniques and Designs for Abstract Quilts
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Kay Gardiner, Ann Shayne: Mason-Dixon Knitting Outside the Lines
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