Dick Strawbridge

The most up to date and comprehensive guide on sustainable living for your garden, home, and kitchen. Practical Self Sufficiency is a wonderfully useful and accessible book that contains something for absolutely everyone. This fully updated guide, now in a paperback edition, offers clear step-by-step information in classic DK style and provides a greater focus on the issues surrounding sustainable...

Master the art of seasonal celebration with over 100 delicious recipes, beautiful crafts, and inspiring gardening projects from Sunday Times bestselling authors Dick and Angel Strawbridge. Drawing on their many years of hosting friends, family, and guests at Chateau-de-la-Motte Husson, this book is Dick and Angel's definitive guide to creating magical and unforgettable celebrations in your very own home. Whether...

THE ENTERTAINING AND HEARTWARMING SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER. Like many couples, Dick and Angel had long dreamed of living in France, but where others might settle for a modest bolthole in the French countryside, the Strawbridges fell in love with a 19th-century fairytale chateau, complete with 45 rooms, seven outbuildings, 12 acres of land and its own moat. Throwing caution to...

Take a journey to Chateau-de-la-Motte Husson in the spellbinding memoir from Sunday Times bestselling authors, Dick and Angel Strawbridge. Dick and Angel recount the newest and biggest challenges they faced on the journey to transforming their once derelict and abandoned chateau in France's Pays de la Loire into a thriving family home and sustainable business. When the Covid-19 pandemic engulfs...

In January 2015 Dick and Angel Strawbridge embarked on the journey of a lifetime when they swapped their cosy two-bedroom flat in East London for a derelict chateau with 12 acres of land in the Loire valley.Where Sunday Times bestseller A Year At The Chateau told the entertaining and heartwarming beginning of the family's French adventure, as they found their...