Twenty pages into An Unanchored Heart – a suitably 1930s-ish-sounding title, being both dated and poignant – the reader can admire the pace and vigour of his. Chatsworth: the gardens and the people who made them by Alan Titchmarsh is one coffeetable book that demands to be read from cover to cover. Bundles of baubles, miles of ribbon and thousands of twinkling lights will adorn Yorkshire’s gorgeous grand houses this festive season. As someone who reads more classic than contemporar y fiction, I was immensely grateful for Peter Kemp’s Retroland, which offers a sur vey of the English novel since 1970.

A Puck-like, Will-o’-the-wisp Withnail in everyone’s peripheral vision, he seemed to appear from nowhere, leaving a trail of larger-than-life pranks, triumphs and more frequent disasters, which fuelled drunken gossip to everyone’s amusement. Martin Amis, in The Information, cast him as Rory Plantagenet, " The compromised and epicene diarist on a London evening paper. We are experiencing delays with deliveries to many countries, but in most cases local services have now resumed. Family life in the country is at the heart of Flora Soames’s lovely and inspiring The One Day Box: A LifeChanging Love of Home.Footprints in the Woods: The Secret Life of Forest and Riverbank by Sir John Lister-Kaye is a Highland laird’s beautifully obser ved exposé of the mustelids on his estate— Nature writing at its best.

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