Autumn is the time to settle back in with cozy suppers and delicious warming meals and if one of your family has just started at University, here are three delightful books to choose from to help them create tasty meals with limited space and budget!
Author: Louise Sinclair (Louise Sinclair)
Crystals to Manifest – Emma Lucy Knowles
Hands-on healer and clairvoyant-to-the-stars, Emma-Lucy Knowles, shows us how to use crystals to help you feel more empowered in your everyday. Along with beautiful photography and a full index of the crystals she mentions, Emma-Lucy explains how to clear your body of what is blocking you, cast out your best intentions and then call in positive energy to transform your life.
Call of the Kingfisher by Nick Penny
Call of the Kingfisher is the enchanting debut from composer and wildlife recordist, Nick Penny. This love letter to a short stretch of Northamptonshire’s River Nene celebrates all the wild things that live there, especially the kingfishers.
The Queen’s Green Canopy: Ancient Woodlands and Trees – Adrian Houston, Charles Sainsbury-Plaice
Description: The Queen’s Green Canopy is a beautiful photography book showcasing 70 ancient trees and 70 ancient woodlands dedicated by the QGC initiative in honour of Her Majesty’s Platinum Jubilee.The book features extraordinary photographs of the United Kingdom’s best-loved trees, many of which inspired historic figures, artists and writers through the centuries.Alongside these photographs are short written pieces...
The Innovative Artist: Capturing Light – Catherine Beale
Capturing Light is a must for artists who wish to investigate the subtle qualities of light with an emphasis on creating dramatic, imaginative landscapes.
Loving the fluidity of watercolours, Catherine has developed a painting technique by experimenting with, and exploring, modern watercolour pigments and the boundaries of the medium. The method uses lots of water on a sloping board which Catherine calls gravity painting, which creates a natural way of working, keeping colours luminous and mobile without any ‘muddying’.
Yiayia: Time-perfected Recipes from Greece’s Grandmothers – Anastasia Miari
Yiayia: Time-perfected Recipes from Greece's Grandmothers showcases regional Greek cookery and features sharing and feasting dishes, mainly vegetarian, from the kitchens of grandmothers across Greece.
The Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew – Featured Reviews
As a nation of garden lovers, The Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew hold a special place in the hearts of many and the following two books are a wonderful celebration of this very special place. Both have captured the spirit and essence of the buildings, the surrounding area and the tradition and history associated with...
Salt and the Art of Seasoning – James Strawbridge
From Curing to Charring and Baking to Brining, Techniques and Recipes to Help You Achieve Extraordinary Flavours Description Understanding how to use salt can make or break a dish. Salt and the Art of Seasoning will not only help you master your use of seasoning, but it will allow you to reimagine how you cook,...
Watercolour Nature Unleashed – Jane Betteridge
Bursting with exciting and innovative techniques, best-selling author Jane Betteridge pushes watercolour to new heights, bringing nature to life with vibrancy, texture and dynamism.
In this reissue of her best-selling book Dynamic Watercolours, Jane demonstrates an effective and vibrant use of a huge range of exciting ways of working, including the use of crackle paste, modelling pastes, metallic leaf, gilding flakes, print and much more.
Cucina di Amalfi: Sun-Drenched Recipes from Southern Italy’s Most Magical Coastline – Ursula Ferrigno
Discover a sparkling region in Southern Italy which offers the most tantalizing food, through 75 authentic recipes, cooked with care and attention using the best ingredients.
Italian food reflects culture. In Italy cooking is the product of geography, history, and religion. 'Italian cooking' is really a patchwork of local and regional cuisines, all fiercely claiming to be the best in the country.









