The Artist, Ed Vere ( paperback April 2023)

A Year of Colour : How to create a bold and bright garden by Ann-Marie Powell ( hardback FEB2026)

£25.00

urn your garden into a year-round celebration of colour with award-winning garden designer,  Ann-Marie Powell. Based on her own vibrant garden, A Year of Colour shares over 40 tried-and-tested planting combinations for full colour in every season.  Whether you have a tiny courtyard or acres of land, your garden is the one place devoted to joy. In A Year of Colour, Ann-Marie Powell invites you into her own garden to share her absolute favourite planting combinations – from sultry tulip displays to autumn jewel tones – so that you too can have a bold and bright garden whatever your space or season. Structured into eight easy-to-follow chapters, this joyful guide invites you to: Explore over 40 ready-made, tried-and-tested planting combinations that span the seasons.

Each includes detailed plant profiles, colour charts and expert tips, making vibrant and achievable colour effortless. Master Ann-Marie’s essential tasks and step-by-step tutorials at the end of every chapter. Learn how to fill gaps in borders, extend the season with clever tricks, plant bulb lasagnes and create cheerful forced displays for midwinter. Enjoy Julie Skelton’s stunning photography, capturing colour as a living, shifting performance. Perfect for gardeners who want more colour and aren’t afraid to get their hands dirty, A Year of Colour will show you how to create a garden that’s bold, beautiful and brimming with life.    

My Book of Treasures, Joanna Lumley ( hardback Oct 2025)

£20.00

Over the years Joanna Lumley has kept private notebooks, filled with her favourite writings, thoughts and quotes. Now, for the first time, she opens her Book of Treasures to share some of her many and varied jottings with readers.

This collection of chosen writings, interspersed with narration from Joanna, features the lines of her best-loved authors, from Shakespeare to Emily Dickinson, pearls of wisdom that she has heard or read, and nuggets of trivia and miscellanea that have made her happy. The book is full of surprise and variety: the wistful keeps company with the acerbic, the sincere slips in besides the absurd. And the result is a jewel box of delights, filled with fabulous titbits.

Oscar Wilde's Stories for Children ( hardback, Little Island Press)

£19.99

Beautifully produced by Little Island Press, this is a special gift for adults and children alike. With a 2025 foreword by Colm Toibin, it is sure to be a limited edition collector's book in the future. 

The Daily Artist's Way : Creative Living Every Day by Julia Cameron (paperback)

£12.99

Start each day with intention and find your purpose with a year of creative living. Offering wisdom we can turn to any day of the year, this pocket-book of guidance from the bestselling author of The Artist's Way is the perfect addition for anyone seeking meaning and direction in their life. A beautiful companion to Cameron's life-changing creative process, The Daily Artist's Way features 366 page-a-day quotations, minute meditations and journal prompts to follow throughout the year.

Helping us start each page anew, Julia's sage wisdom will inspire and guide readers from all walks of life in finding the possibility that each day brings.

Of all the self-help tools I've tested through the years, one has proved more enduring than the rest: Morning Pages' OLIVER BURKEMAN