As a child living in a bleak coastal village on the Solway Firth during World War 2, Alan Tait’s Dr Barnardo’s papier mâché collection box, with its thatched roof and chimney, represented a different
On previous journeys through Britain, David McKie headed for places he had heard of and was eager to see. But how true, how representative a picture of the country could that provide? What, he wondere
After a brief survey of Roman topiary, this book moves on through the formal parterres of Renaissance Italy and the more elaborate broderies of the royal French gardens (copied in palace gardens throu
