After studying Archaeology & Anthropology at Oxford University, best-selling author and designer Sally Coulthard has spent the last twenty years designing, making and writing about homes, craft and outdoor spaces.  Keen to make good design accessible, she’s written over twenty books about restoring houses, designing interiors and outdoor living.  From garden styles to craftsmanship, creating workspaces to building sheds, Sally’s books inspire, encourage and equip readers to take on projects of their own.

Sally is a passionate advocate of rural living and regularly writes about nature and her experiences of smallholding deep in North Yorkshire countryside, including her ‘Good Life in Country’ column for Country Living magazine.

Sally is the author of CRAFTED – A Compendium of Crafts New, Old & Forgotten (Quadrille), The Bee Bible (Anima), Superstitions (Quadrille), ‘The Little Book of Building Fires’ (Anima), ‘How To Build a Shed’ (Laurence King), The Hedgehog Handbook (Anima), The Little Book of Snow (Anima), STUDIO: Creative Spaces for Creative People (Jacqui Small), Shed Decor (Jacqui Small), Home of Your Own: Creating Interiors With Character (Merrell), Gardenalia (Jacqui Small), Shed Chic (Jacqui Small), The Reclaimers (Hodder & Stoughton), Restored to Glory: A guide to Renovating your Period Home and Pure Living: How to Detox your Home (BBC Books) and seven other books.

Sally forthcoming 2020 titles include: Biophilia (Kyle Books), The History of the World According to Sheep (Head of Zeus), Floriography (Quadrille) and The Book of the Earthworm (Anima).

For more information, visit: sallycoulthard.co.uk.