There is nothing cosier than an English cottage in my view, especially a really old one with a thatched roof. Here are some books that celebrate that feeling; looking at the style, the food and the gardens associated with English cottage life:
English Cottage Gardening: For American Gardeners, Revised Edition
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Extensively illustrated with photographs, this book shows how the North American amateur gardener can recreate the style of an English cottage garden. Practical tips are given for different regions of the United States.
The Cottage Kitchen: Cozy Cooking in the English Countryside
Share in a gorgeous, thoughtful life in the charming English countryside with The Cottage Kitchen, a cookbook of recipes and stories by Norwegian-born photographer and tastemaker Marie Forsberg.
Perfect English Cottage
Lavishly illustrated with beautiful photographs, this book explores 18 English cottage homes and shows that these houses are as attractive on the inside as out. Author Ros Byam Shaw takes a fresh look at this perennially appealing style, which she divides into five chapters: Character, Holiday, Romance, Simplicity, and Elegance.
Perfect English Farmhouse
In Perfect English Farmhouse, via a series of case studies, Ros Byam Shaw explores both traditional and contemporary farmhouse style. The book is divided into chapters according to style: Organic, Traditional, Fresh, No Frills, and Funky, and at the end of each chapter a spread highlights the key elements of that particular decorative look.
A Cottage in the Country: Inspirational Hideaways
A Cottage in the Country presents a glorious collection of the most fascinating and picturesque small dwellings from the National Trust. From rustic workers’ cottages to the inspirational homes of Thomas Hardy and Virginia Woolf, from the prettiest thatches to solid stone follies, this inspiring book celebrates the very best of cottage life.
Designing and Creating a Cottage Garden: How to cultivate a garden full of flowers, herbs, trees, fruit, vegetables and livestock, with 300 inspirational photographs
The cottage garden eschews rigid guidelines: it rambles, it is personal, defined by the garden space and how it is used. Cottage gardens are sensuous, tumbledown, colourful, eclectic, productive spaces piled full of riotous flowers, fruit and vegetables.
Death in the English Countryside (Murder on Location) (Volume 1)
Death in the English Countryside is the first book in the popular Murder on Location cozy mystery series. Set in the English Countryside.
Death in an English Cottage (Murder on Location) (Volume 2)
The second volume in the Murder on Location series and another murder mystery.
The Truth About Cottages: A History and an Illustrated Guide to 50 Types of English Cottage
The Truth about Cottages is a small classic – in the words of the Sunday Times, “”required reading for cottage addicts; true scholarship, engrossing history and a real eye-opener for romantics.”” It tells an often amazing story of cottage life since the seventeenth century, often in the words of the people who built them or lived in them.
Country Series: English Cottage Interiors
A study of English cottage interiors throughout the Country.
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