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The Bible of British Taste – Issue no.3 autumn / winter 2024

8th November 2024|

Issue no.3 Autumn /winter 2024 brings you brand new stories, folk tales, legends and marvellous curiosities :  healing wells and holy wells in West Cornwall; a true story  - of 'Orlando' and love-triangulation  - featuring Virginia Woolf, Vita and Eddy Sackville-West, by the chatelain of Knole, Robert Sackville West; polemical drawing by Biennale-artist Bedwyr Williams;  Corbin Shaw! ; altered states, psychedelic medicine and a thrice-moated Tudor tower-house in the marshlands of Otmoor; home, sweet home by The World of Interiors' greatest stylist Jessica Hayns;  performing Welsh corgis courtesy of Charlie McCormick;  Rowan Williams, archbishop and poet, introducing this issue’s Welsh Odyssey and the legends of the Mabinogi;  Chateau Orlando’s founder Luke Edward Hall on excursion to the fashion-fantasy gardens of Clough Williams-Ellis, creator of Portmeirion’s fairyland; the making of brand new Village Green magazine by its creator Jake Williams; David Dawson’s pastoral-paintings; ‘Wales is Not for Sale' and why Hiraeth doesn't mean what we think it means;  an ancient dwelling house in Eryri ... and more writing, including one of the most beautiful [true] stories in the world -  'The Bank Manager and the Holy Grail.' 110 glorious colour pages! Founder-editor  R A Guilding, contributing editor Luke Edward Hall, art director Jack Henshall, contributing photographer Howard Sooley

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The Bible of British Taste – Issue no.2 autumn / winter 2023

25th October 2023|

Issue no.2 Autumn /winter 2023. A portmanteau of houses and green grass, folk, Fairisle and fashion, houses, modern painting and Pop art carving in stone, old  cultures and new writing, illustration and photography from co-editor and Chateau Orlando founder Luke Edward Hall, contributions from Celia Paul, Judith Watt, Christopher Sykes, Susan Owens, Stephen Calloway,  A. N. Wilson, Rupert White, Sean Ketteringham, Peter York... Ossie Clark meets Rex Whistler at Clovelly, standing stones and ley lines in West Penwith, Bloomsbury and Bring No Clothes, the origins of Boss Morris, f ---Fashion, 70s icon Sir Roy Strong rides again, dirty old Spitalfields
 Creative design by Jack Henshall and photography by Howard Sooley; founded and edited by Ruth Guilding of the bibleofbritishtaste.
A limited edition, order here for UK delivery by post, no local pickup available
Hurry, hurry, while stocks last! Overseas posting available from Pentreath and Hall and John Sandoe Books, also over the counter sales
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VERY LAST COPIES: The Bible of British Taste – Issue no.1, autumn / winter 2022

12th December 2022|

Issue no.1 Autumn /winter 2022. A portmanteau of folk and fashion, houses, allotments, gardens and ditches, modern painters and culture, with new writing, illustration and photography from co-editor and Chateau Orlando founder Luke Edward Hall, cultural commentary from Nicola Shulman, Nicky Haslam, Peter York and Rosanna Mclaughlin, counter-culture from Mab George Sanders, Simon Costin and Rupert White, studio-time with David Dawson, Emma Prempeh, Jasper Conran and Charlie McCormick, football hooligans and Cornish Maids…  Creative design by Jack Henshall and photography by Howard Sooley; founded and edited by Ruth Guilding of the bibleofbritishtaste.
A limited edition of only 800 copies printed, order her for delivery by post, no local pickup available
Hurry, hurry, while stocks last!
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