Books & Puzzles

A brief, invaluable guide to the art of growing vegetables around the year and saving money in the process.

Vegetable Growing is a practical guide to frugal allotmenteering, including planning your plot, looking after the plants and practical tips for keeping your costs down, such as clever ways of making freebie alternatives to common growing tools.

An additional handy section offers advice on which fruit and veg will save you the most money, as well as a season-by-season guide and ideas for boosting your savings with foraged and wild food.

A handy guide to quick and effective first-aid treatments for commonly occurring accidents and complaints, derived from garden, pantry and under-sink sources. From a thorn prick to heatstroke, from chapped hands to heart attack, from pesticide poisoning to wasp stings: all of these can be treated on site with what you grow. The resource is on your doorstep: the plant beside you as your work or relax in the garden can be the answer to the hive, ache or watery eye.

It is written by a professional gardener with a lifetime of experience of accidents that can happen in the garden and of how to cure/respond within the garden context using plants and items at hand in the garden. All the dots are joined, you won't need a book on herbs, a book on homemade remedy preparation and a garden plant reference - they are all combined in the first aid advice in this book.

Chemical weedkillers can be incredibly harmful to the wildlife in your garden, not to mention any fruit and vegetables you might have growing. With over 30 years of experience in organic gardening, Bob Flowerdew has tackled every kind of weed in a variety of ways to devise the best ways to remove them without using dangerous chemicals and maintain a weed-free garden.

Helen Yemm writes the Saturday Telegraph Thorny Problems column. Each week she writes a 'seasonal ramble' and then answers readers' garden problems. Tricky challenges that gardeners face range from how to deal with the GOOD (hedgehogs and bats), the BAD (moles and aphids) and the UGLY (slugs and black spot) to when is the best time to prune a cherry tree or advice on lawn maintenance.

Helen knows her readers well and has built up a big following - a fanbase in fact. This book is a delightful compilation of her seasonal rambles and pertinent advice. Established gardeners will appreciate her excellent tips and enjoy her very personal style of writing about looking after a garden - whether large or small. She is not afraid to admit to her own failures; gardening Helen Yemm style is an art not a science.

A mythical hero from Irish legend. Fionn Mac Cumhaill is said to have built the Giants causeway as stepping stones to walk to Scotland without getting his feet wet.

See if you have what it takes to challenge this great warrior by turning him into a cube and then back into a man.

Regarded in legend as the greatest poet in Ireland. Oisin was also a fierce warrior in Irish mythology. The son of Fionn Mac Cumhaill, Oisin was a man of integrity who stood up to his own father in the name of justice.

See if you have what it takes to conquer this great leader by turning him into a cube and then back into a man.

Let the music of Ireland inspire you with this music quiz Divided into four categories, see who will score big as you answer questions about the 80s, rock & pop, movie soundtracks and traditional Irish music.

• 200 quiz cards - 50 per category.
• Instruction sheet.

Challenging & creative way to pass the time.

• Dimensions: W-6.3" x H-9.4" x L-0.07"

Get ready to savour the latest flavours, go beyond the traditional and get a taste of the new, authentic American barbecue. Featuring places of interest, local experts and history behind the recipes - you'll feel like you're taking a road trip across the nation of barbecues.

Weber's All American Barbecue is an exciting, hands-on exploration of how American barbecue is evolving. With over 120 new recipes that reimagine the classics, in-depth instruction on the latest techniques, and a look at how global influences such as Latin America, China and France are shaping what we put on our grill, Weber, the most trusted and authoritative name in grilling, brings contemporary, extraordinary barbecue within reach for everyone.

Sometimes all you want is the best. This spectacular volume gives you just that, with more than 115 top-rated recipes that were carefully selected by experts and Weber fans, and crystal-clear instruction from author Jamie Purviance.

This is your new go-to companion from the most trusted name in BBQ-ing. Much more than just a recipe collection, Weber's Barbecue Bible is an entirely new take on grilling today, with every recipe step visually depicted in full-colour photography.

Weber's Barbecue Bible is the most comprehensive and visually instructive barbecue book available. With over 125 all-new, modern, inspirational ideas for every occasion. Each recipe is beautifully photographed for easy, at-a-glance understanding, accompanied by expert advice and over 750 step-by-step photos.

Slow down time and experiment with adding smoke flavour to any food on your barbecue. Weber's Complete Barbecue Smoking shows you how and gives you more than 80 exciting recipes - from the classic, Best-on-the-Block Baby Back Ribs, to the ambitious, Smoked Duck.

With over 30 years of experience, Bob Flowerdew guides you, step-by-step, through the process of preparing for, planting and nurturing your plants. This is one book of an indispensable series that can answer all your queries and, because it's Bob, no doubt make you laugh too.

ISBN: 9781911517535

This is where Bob, with his 30 years' experience of organic gardening, comes in handy. Bob explains the best methods for removing and preventing a wide variety of common garden pests, from aphids and slugs to vine weevils and whitefly.

Simple, Green Pest and Disease Control will answer all your queries in a clear, straightforward manner, leaving you to enjoy your garden, pest and disease-free.

In this beautiful follow-up to 2012's hit, Our Garden Birds, street artist Matt Sewell offers more watercolours and quirky descriptions of British songbirds.

In Matt's world, the peewit sings the blues, and the bittern fills his neck 'like a tweed pair of bellows'. Distinctive and enchanting, with a songbird for each week of the year, this delightful gift book will appeal to birders, children and adults, and art and design fans alike.

Sku#: 9781912295333

How did the delphinium get its name? Which parts of the body lend their names to auriculas and orchids? Who are the gentian, lobelia and heuchera named after? Why are nasturtiums and antirrhinums connected? What does an everlasting pea have to do with Indian miniature paintings?

These are some of the questions answered in Peter Parker's adventurous exploration of the mysteries of Botanical Latin.