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A Little History of British Gardening by Jenny Uglow
$34.00 NZD
Category: Gardening general
Did the Romans have rakes? Did the monks get muddy? Did the potato seem really, really weird when it arrived on our shores? This lively 'potted' history of gardening in Britain takes us on a garden tour from the thorn hedges around prehistoric settlements to the rage for decking and ornamental grasses ...Show more
A Little History of British Gardening by Jenny Uglow
$49.95 NZD
Category: Gardening general | Reading Level: very good
Did the Romans have rakes? Did the monks get muddy? Did the potato seem really, really weird when it arrived on our shores? This lively 'potted' history of gardening in Britain takes us on a garden tour from the thorn hedges around prehistoric settlements to the rage for decking and ornamental grasses t ...Show more
George Eliot by Jenny Uglow
$30.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
One of the most brilliant writers of her day, George Eliot (1819-1880) was also one of the most talked about. Intellectual and independent, she had the strength to defy polite society with her highly unorthodox private life, so why did she deny her fictional characters the same opportunities?
Sybil & Cyril by Jenny Uglow
$45.00 NZD
Category: No Category
In 1922, Cyril Power, a fifty-year old architect, left his family to work with the twenty-four year old Sybil Andrews. They would be together for twenty years. Both became famous for their dynamic, modernist linocuts, streamlined, full of movement and brilliant colour, summing up the hectic interwar ye ...Show more
The Lunar Men: The Friends Who Made the Future 1730-1810 by Jenny Uglow
$30.00 NZD
Category: World History | Reading Level: very good
Led by Erasmus Darwin, the Lunar Society of Birmingham was formed from a group of amateur experimenters, tradesmen and artisans who met and made friends in the Midlands in the 1760s. Most came from humble families, all lived far from the centre of things, but they were young and their optimism was bound ...Show more
The Pinecone by Jenny Uglow
$30.00 NZD
Category: No Category
In the village of Wreay, near Carlisle, stands the strangest and most magical church in Victorian England. This vivid, original book tells the story of its builder, Sarah Losh, strong-willed and passionate and unusual in every way. Born into an old Cumbrian family, heiress to an industrial fortune, Sara ...Show more
Words and Pictures - Writers, Artists and a Peculiarly British Tradition by Jenny Uglow
$28.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
As children, learning to read, we look first at the illustrations - but how do these tell their stories differently from the words? Words & Pictures explores this question through three encounters between writers and artists. It looks at how artists have responded to two great, contrasting works, Pa ...Show more
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