News: New Fruit Books
June 2010
Creating a Forest Garden: Working with Nature to Grow Edible Crops by Martin Crawford, published by Green Books 2010. £30.00
Reviewed on Fruit Forum
http://www.fruitforum.net/a-forest-garden-of-fruit.htm
April 2010
Oude Fruitrassen by Hennie Rossel, illustrated by Lineke Rekers, published 2009 by Landleven (www.landlevenboek.nl; tel 0314 34 98 71); 15.50 euros; pp 167; colour illustrations throughout; paperback.
Reviewed on Fruit Forum
http://www.fruitforum.net/some-typical-dutch-fruits.htm
March 2010
Rivers Nursery of Sawbridgeworth; The Art of Practical Pomology by Elizabeth Waugh;; published by Rivers Nursery Site and Orchard Group in associaton with Rockinhgam Press, 2009; pp 203; illustrated with black and white photographs.
Reviewed on Fruit Forum
http://www.fruitforum.net/the-rivers-nursery-of-sawbridgeworth.htm
June 2009
Craft Cider Making by Andrew Lea; published by The Good Life Press Ltd, 2008, pp160;; illust with colour and black & white photographs.
Reviewed on Fruit Forum
http://www.fruitforum.net/cider-making-explained.htm
Pomegranate Roads; A Soviet Botanist’s Exile fom Eden by Dr. Gregory M. Levin; translated from the Russian by Margaret Hopstein, edited by Barbara L. Baer; published 2006 by Floreant Press, California; $19.95 (available Amazon US); pp183, illustrated with colour plates and black and white photos.
Reviewed on Fruit Forum
http://www.fruitforum.net/passion-for-pomegranates.htm
Where Our Food Comes From by Gary Paul Nabhan, published 2009 by Island Press, Sherewater Books; pp 223, illustrated b&w and colour photographs; £15.99.
http://www.fruitforum.net/following-in-vavilovs-footsteps-in-search-of-foodcrops.htm
October 2008
Ciderland - a guide to the West Country cider and perry orchards and their producers by James Crowden, with photographs by Claire Lloyd Davies, published 2008 by Birlinn Limited, Edinburgh, £20; pp 256; numerous colour photographs, paperback. www.jamescrowden.co.uk
Reviewed on Fruit Forum:
http://www.fruitforum.net/a-cider-and-perry-renaissance.htm
Success with Apples and Pears to Eat and Drink by Alan Rowe, the second edition of this successful practical guide to varieties, husbandry, harvesting, storing and making juices, cider and perry. Published 2008 by Groundnut Publishing, Suffolk, £12.95 ; pp134, illustrated with many colour photographs; paperback.
Reviewed on Fruit Forum:
http://www.fruitforum.net/apples-and-pears-a-wealth-of-useful-information.htm
Fruit; Edible, Inedible, Incredible by Wolfgang Stuppy, the seed morphologist for the Kew Millenium Seed Bank Project and Rob Kesseler, professor of Art and Design at Central Saint Martins College. Published by Papadakis Publisher, Berkshire, 2008 in collaboration with the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew; £35.00; pp 264, illustrated with numerous colour photographs; hardback.
June 2008
Man-Made Eden by James Russell - the history of fruit growing and the present status of orchards in Somerset and Gloucestershire.
Man-Made Eden, Historic Orchards in Somerset and Gloucestershire by James Russell; with photographs by Stephen Morris; published by Redcliffe Press Ltd, Bristol; 156 pages; numerous colour photographs; £15.00.
Reviewed: on Fruit Forum:
http://www.fruitforum.net/traditional-orchards-for-commerce-and-community.htm
Community Orchards; the guidebook to creating and looking after a Community Orchard by Common Ground.
Community Orchards; Handbook by Angela King and Sue Clifford; published by Common Ground, Dorset; 225 pages; many coloured illustrations; £10 +£3 p&p from Common Ground Gold Hill House, 21 High Street, Shaftesbury, Dorset SP7 8JE (01747 850820).
Reviewed: on Fruit Forum:
http://www.fruitforum.net/traditional-orchards-for-commerce-and-community.htm
October 2007
The Apple Source Book: a celebration of apples and their many uses, customs and stories brought together by Sue Clifford and Angela King, the founders of Common Ground, with contributions from many authors together with numerous recipes.
The Apple Source Book; particular uses for diverse apples by Sue Clifford and Angela King with Philippa Davenport for Common Ground; published by Hodder & Stoughton, 304 pages, b&w illustrations, £16.99.
The Northern Pomona is a guide to apples that do well in the north of Britain, which has been produced in the main by horticulturists, cooks and chefs located around Helmsley Walled Garden, in North Yorkshire. The book is edited by Lin Hawthorn and illustrated with over 50 water colour paintings of apple varieties by Bridget Gillespie. All the proceeds from the Pomona are going towards the restoration work at Helmsley Garden and its role as a community enterprise.
The Northern Pomona: Apples for Cool Climates; published by Pomona Publications York (www.northernpomona.co.uk ); illustrated with water colours; £50.
May 2007
The Downright Epicure; Essays on Edward Bunyard (1878-1939): biography of Edward Bunyard, the well known fruit authority of the 1920s and 1930s. Edited by Edward Wilson with contributions from Alan Bell, Simon Hiscock, Joan Morgan, Richard Sharp and Edward Wilson.
The Downright Epicure; Essays on Edward Bunyard (1878-1939) edited by Edward Wilson; published by Prospect Books; £30; pp 400.
Reviewed: on Fruit Forum:
http://www.fruitforum.net/edward-bunyard-biography-a-book-for-the-scholar-and-enthusiast.htm
