Beer, in So Many Words: The Best Writing on the Greatest Drink

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Adrian Tierney-Jones

Beverages & Wine

Safe Haven Books

London's Street Trees: A Field Guide to the Urban Forest

Paul Wood

From pigeons to parakeets, it s impossible not to notice birds in London. But how many more would you see if you knew where to look? Can you really see a striking black-and-white wader like the Avocet, or a graceful bird of prey like a Marsh Harrier or a shy reedbed-dwelling Bittern . . . within Greater London? Did you know Peregrine Falcons nest at Battersea Power Station, or that 100 species have been logged at Hampstead Heath in one year? Now, this wonderful guide book details the best places all round the capital for watching birds, from woodlands to wetlands, parks to post-industrial backwaters. Illustrated throughout with stunning colour photographs, it tells you where to go, at what times of year, and what to look out for. Published in association with the London Wildlife Trust, Birdwatching London reveals the amazing variety of birdlife in the capital, and offers wonderful ideas for a day out among nature.

Birdwatching London

Travel

Darrell-Lambert, David

Specialty Travel

Why would anyone write a letter and then not send it? 'What a Hazard a Letter is,' wrote the poet Emily Dickinson, thinking of 'the Hearts it has scuttled and sunk'. Once sent, a letter cannot be taken back: it is like a depth charge dropped into the future, into other people s lives. The moment they re written, letters become, as Janet Malcolm puts it, fossils of feeling: they fix and freeze the sentiments we had at the time, though our lives may quickly move on and we may all too soon have second thoughts. But what if, once written, a letter is not sent or never arrives? What a Hazard a Letter is is the first book to look at the strange phenomenon of the unsent letter. It collects together some of the most remarkable examples, from fiction and from real life, and explores the fascinating reasons why they came to be unsent, and the consequences sometimes farcical, sometimes agonisingly poignant, and sometimes actually changing the course of history. Here, then, are authors from Ian McEwan to Iris Murdoch, Abraham Lincoln to Ernest Hemingway, and Virginia Woolf to Van Gogh: magnificent tirades written in the red mist of rage, delicious to read but all the better for not being mailed; letters whose non-arrival sets a novel s plot careering down a new track; and tender words of love that never quite got said all, in their way, a little more eloquent for being unsent.

What A Hazard A Letter Is

Literature & Fiction

Caroline Atkins

Short Stories & Anthologies

Yorkshire Coast Path: A guide to walking 120 miles of magnificent coastline from Redcar to the Humber

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Andrew Vine

Exercise & Fitness

Hillwalking London: Ten High-level Walks to the Heights of the Capital

Caroline Buckland

Croydonopolis: A Journey to the Greatest City That Never Was

Will Noble

<p>Moquette is the carpet-like fabric covering the seats we sit on in London's Tubes, buses, trams and Overground trains - and here is a brilliantly colourful guide to all its patterns. London Transport has always wanted the best design, be it Charles Holden's superb art deco Tube stations on the Piccadilly Line, its elegant Johnston typeface or Harry Beck's Tube map. And this pursuit of excellence has extended even to the design of the fabrics it covers our bus and Tube seats with: moquette. In the Thirties top artists like Paul Nash and Enid Marx were commissioned to design patterns; nowadays every line like Crossrail or the Overground gets its own unique, colour-co-ordinated moquette pattern. Now, in conjunction with the London Transport Museum, which has the definitive London Transport moquette archive, Andrew Martin has written a delightful, surprising and covetable guide to all these patterns, from the first horse bus to the latest Tube train.</p>

Seats of London: A Field Guide to London Transport Moquette Patterns

Arts & Photography

MARTIN, Andrew

History & Criticism

<p>Paul Wood's brilliant and acclaimed London's Street Trees sold out three printings in its first edition, is a fixture in London's bookshops and museum and gallery gift shops, and was republished in Spring 2020 in a new, revised and expanded edition. One of its most popular features is the handful of 'tree walks' at the back, while the author is still leading his own guided 'street tree walks' every weekend somewhere in the capital. So now here is a whole book of tree walks around the capital - some for an hour or two, others for an afternoon, and several to while away a whole day. They take you to Ealing and Highgate, to see nineteenth-century London Planes lining the Embankment, newly-planted Persian Silk Trees in Brockley, and a whole Dawn Redwood forest at Canary Wharf - while pointing out the architecture and social and natural history along the way. You'll find trees taking you to the haunts of Seventies rock stars, in search of a long-buried circus elephant, and to some London's highest ground with the most stunning views over the capital.</p>

London Tree Walks: Arboreal Ambles Around the Green Metropolis

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Gardening & Landscape Design

Dickens on Railways: A Great Novelist's Travels by Train

Charles, Dickens

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