For the Love of an Orchard: Everybody's guide to growing and cooking orchard fruit - Rilegato

Apart from fine photography and delightful illustrations, what makes this book stand out is the way the authors weave history into the stories they tell of our different British Fruits. BBC Country File Magazine, April 2010. --BBC Country File Magazine, April 2010.

This is truly inspirational and a treat for both the armchair gardener and those unafraid to wield the secateurs. The former can delight in the beautiful design with elegant endpapers, beautiful photographs and a charming recurrent bee motif, while losing themselves in the absorbing historical and literary commentary on different fruit. For "real" gardeners there is information on growing and maintaining fruit trees and for cooks there are a myriad of recipes to use the harvest's bounty. Particularly interesting are the recipes using a number of the less familiar heritage fruits such as quinces and medlars now becoming more available through farmer's markets...make a note of the title now as it will make a lovely Christmas present recommendation. --Bookseller 2010

A big book on a big topic, singing the praises of tree fruit and doing its best to persuade you to plant a few quince, with ideas for what to do with your gluts of gorgeousness. --English Garden Sep 2010