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The Country Home Decorating Book Dorling Kindersley My first book – they sent me on location to America. It gave me a very misguided impression of the publishing world. |
Ethnic Style Conran Octopus My favourite of all my designy books. It was a collaborative effort of which I still feel proud. I loved what the designer did, love the illustrations and the ideas. |
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The Four Craft Books Dorling Kindersley A practical series that I enjoyed putting together, trawling craft fairs for talented makers and persuading them to part with their secrets in the endless doldrums of studio photography |
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Rags to Rainbows Collins and Brown A proselytizing book – exasperated by the way that Americans lay claim to be the only quilt makers in the world, I decided to write about other traditions: Canadian, Japanese, Provençal. OK, Americans are the only quilt makers in the world. |
The Fireplace Book |
Traditional Fabrics Reader’s Digest What happened to all those cushions and quilts? I wonder who made off with them? They’re not bad, I could really use them. |
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The Country Decorator Ebury Press My only entirely kitsch-free publication - an elegant distillation of my thirteen years working for Country Living magazine. |
The Ornamental Gardener Headline Now I come to look at it, there are some ideas I could use here. |
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Complete Home Crafts Dorling Kindersley Look no further if you want to know how to make a flammable ashtray or to distress with keys, construct an ejector-hammock or make a seriously daft inboard out of corks. |
Medieval Flowers Kyle Cathie Clay Perry’s faultless photography speaks for itself. I was so lucky that he worked for me while I was Garden Editor at Country Living. A good photographer can conjure enchantment out of quotidian dross. |
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Book of Candles Dorling Kindersley You may sniff, but I am quietly proud of rising to the challenge of writing 60,000 words about candles. And I still get queries from Malaysia. |
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Country Crafts Compendium Conran Octopus |
Traditional Country Crafts Conran Octopus |
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These are in fact the same book, but it was a handsome beast and they republished. |
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Passionate Gardener Ebury. |
| I edited this for Country Living, a fascinating series of interviews taken from the magazine. |
