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Richly illustrated literary anthology celebrating the garden as a place of solace in a busy world, a retreat for lovers and an earthly paradise. Features classic and little-known voices, including Rudyard Kipling and Robert Louis Stevenson.

Virtually all modern versions of the legend of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table are derived from a single book: Sir Thomas Malory's Morte d'Arthur (1469), one of the world's most renowned literary works. Yet the author, a fifteenth-century knight, has remained an enigma for centuries. Existing historical records imply that Malory was a criminal—accused of rape, ambush, rustling, and attacks on abbeys—and was imprisoned for most o...

Most famous as the author of "Swallows And Amazons", Ransome was also a literary critic, foreign correspondent, fisherman and sailor. Hardyment explores the places that made him the man he was, from his childhood to his later life with his wife and daughters, such as Coniston Water, Cartmel Fell and East Anglia. Illustrated.

A beautifully illustrated collection of food writing including delectable scenes of cooking and feasting from novels and stories, poems that use food to tempt and seduce, and fine writing by and about great cooks.

An updated edition of the book examining the changing and conflicting advice through the years on how to bring kids up.

Collects together classic and less familiar nature writing from some of the greatest British authors

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From haunting remains of castles dotting the countryside to light-flooded stretches of coast, Britain's landscapes have inspired writers from Jane Austen and Daphne du Maurier to Virginia Woolf and Rudyard Kipling. Evocatively illustrated with paintings and photographs of sites made famous in classic books, Literary Trails invites readers to walk, drive, or sail through some of Britain's best-known literary landscapes, all of which have been p...