Where to Take Tea: A Guide to Over 50 of the Best Places from Victorian Tearooms to Grand Hotels

This guide to Britain's best tea rooms is truly a joy to browse. The first part covers this history and traditions of taking tea, the world's most popular drink. It covers reading the leaves, tea gardens and parties, afternoon tea, high tea and elegant tea dances at the Savoy. The second part of the book is a directory of where to take tea today, and reviews over fifty of the very best places to enjoy the experience, from small family run establishments to top city hotels such as the Lanesborough, the Ritz and the Savoy and the world famous Fortnum and Mason and Harrods department stores. Full details of each venue give you all the information you need to plan and partake of the perfect afternoon refreshment. A perfect gift for tea lovers everywhere.

Rose Elliot's Sumptuous Suppers: Veggie Food with Style

As a long time vegetarian I already have many of Rose Elliot's books and recipes and this new collection does not disappoint. The 100 mouth watering and stylish dishes are perfect for entertaining, although many will soon become family favourites too. Easy to follow recipes and gorgeous photograpy will soon tempt you into the kitchen ensuring wonderful starters, main courses and exquisite desserts for family and friends - vegetarians or not!

History Of 20th Century Fashion

Fresh Baked: Over 80 Tantalizing Recipes for Cakes, Pastries, Biscuits and Breads

Scrumptious collection of over 80 sweet and savoury recipes to tempt you to indulge in the pleasures of baking. As well as information on baking techniques, ingredients and equipment there are classic and new recipes for such delights as Plum Crumble Cake with Cinnamon Cream, Classic Shortbread, Rosewater and Cardamom Choux Buns, Danish Pastries, Caramelized Onion and Spinach Tart, Bacon and Beer Soda Bread, Rosemary and Olive Oil Focaccia and a selection of mouthwatering pizzas. Super photography completes a book that is destined for frequent use and will definitely not languish on the bookshelf.

The Fairtrade Everyday Cookbook

150 recipes using Fairtrade ingredients, contributed by celebrities such as Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Ruth Rogers, Rose Gray and Antony Worrall Thompson, and from producers of the ingredients and ordinary cooks who sent in their own recipes. Beautifully illustrated with easy to follow instructions, it also includes the stories of individual producers from around the world giving an insight into how their communities have benefited from Fairtrade. The featured Fairtrade ingredients are listed at the back of the book with a directory of retailers and supermarkets.

Simple Stylish Knits
Super collection of easy to make modern designs using fat needles and modern yarns that bring the newly fashionable craft of knitting bang up to date. Cuddly wraps, hooded cardigans, ponchos, boleros and lots more simple patterns will have you itching to get those needles clicking.

Modern Family Gardens
29 stylish gardens designed with real families in mind. Inspirational projects for a country garden, a wisteria garden, a sensory garden, a water garden, a roof garden, a sunken garden, an ecological garden, even a stainless steel and stone garden. Beautifully photographed and complete with suppliers, resources and a plant directory too.

Green Babycare

Lots of practical advice for keeping your new baby's footprint on the planet as tiny as possible. The chapters suggest easily adopted greener habits such as eco-clothing solutions, eating organically and washing your baby using eco-friendly homemade baby wipes. There are also many tips for raising your children ethically, using alternatives to chemical products, recycling toys and reducing the landfill waste of the 42 disposable nappies used by the average baby per week. An important guide to the changes we need to consider to bring up healthy babies without further damage to the planet they will inherit.

Aromatherapy: Remedies and Inspirations for Well-being

Handbag sized guide to using essential oils to improve your health and well being using massage, baths, inhalations and vapourisation. The 20 most popular oils are grouped into those that relax, inspire, uplift and revitalise, and there are recipes and ideas for making your own blends too. Sprinkled with inspirational quotations this little book is a joy to read and would make an inexpensive treat for yourself or a lovely gift for a friend.

The Encyclopedia of New Medicine: Conventional and Alternative Medicine for All Ages

Fascinating and informative reference book guides readers through state of the art treatment programmes for more than 200 diseases and conditions. Using a holistic patient centred approach each health problem is linked to relevant alternative treatments from acupuncture and traditional Chinese medicine to Zen meditation and herbal treatments, giving patients the knowledge they need to integrate alternative and conventional medical wisdom to find the best ways to to treat and prevent disease.