THE HOME STYLE HANDBOOK by Lucy Gough, publishes in October, a step-by-step, room-by-room, moodboard-to-moodboard guide to creating a home that reflects your personal style.

We all want to live in a home that reflects our personalities, our experiences, our life’s journey. But if we are not a professional decorator or stylist, where do we start?

In this inspirational and helpful handbook, interiors stylist and tutor Lucy Gough will teach you how to understand your true style and how to implement it in how you decorate your living space. Your dream home needn’t be a spacious, architecturally designed building – it could be small or rented. With this book you’ll discover what YOU love and what makes YOU happy so you can surround yourself with the colors, furniture, furnishings and finishing touches that inspire you. For Lucy, every good room scheme starts with a moodboard – she explains how to create your own and features them throughout the book to explore the elements within a series of home case studies and why they work.

Publishes in October; we can’t wait.

THE FLOWER YARD: Planting a paradise – A year of pots and pollinators by Arthur Parkinson, publishes in November, an inspirational companion to his critically acclaimed book, The Flower Yard, arranged seasonally with tips and advise on growing flamboyant flowers sustainably in containers. This is an inspirational book, beautiful and packed with refreshingly down-to- earth advice, focusing on dramatic but easy-to-grow floral plants that will turn your garden into a perfumed, sustainable paradise, teeming with wildlife and alive with the sound of songbirds. Arranged seasonally, it includes sowing tips and propagating hints, plus advice on planning and keeping track of what is happening in your garden. There is focus on floral plants that are easier-to-grow (but still dramatic), and plants that encourage diversity and wildlife -info, for example, on how to properly feed and attract garden birds for the best aphid control (so no pesticides) and how to create his much Instagram liked dolly tub container pond. Arthur also looks at drought-tolerant flowering herbs for sun baked patios and balconies, striking perennial shrubs for winter structure, seeds that can simply be scattered about directly and grown with reasonable neglect to ferns for shady doorstep pots and scented leaf pelargoniums that then become winter houseplants as well as returning to his stalwart glamour flowers that are nectar rich-single dahlias, roses and sweet peas. This is gardening both for the good of ourselves and the planet.

The much-anticipated follow-up to the highly successful CURATE  provides decorating inspiration for homes that beautifully combine both the modern and the antique

Some of the most exciting interiors around are those that combine vintage and antique finds with select contemporary pieces. In Create, interior stylist and journalist Ali Heath encourages you to think imaginatively about how to use old and new at home – introducing individuality and interest, while incorporating the need to decorate more sustainably.

Following on the success of her first book Curate, Create is a visual feast divided into four engaging and informative chapters. Establishing Your Style will fire your imagination, while Adding the Magic considers ten decorating elements, including pattern and texture, display, lighting, and color. In Creative Spaces the homes of a maverick group of 12 antique dealers and interior designers are shared, and the book closes with Inspirations – advice on where to buy period items and how to buy online and at auction. With glorious photography, original drawings and break-out ideas pages, Create will give you the confidence to nurture a home you love – one that celebrates the past while embracing the present and future.