The Repair Shop: Crafts in the Barn - Skills, stories and heartwarming restorations: THE LATEST BOOK

The Repair Shop - with regular viewing figures of 7 million in the UK alone - has cemented itself as a BBC classic series. This new book focuses on the crafts which the experts specialise in, from woodwork and ceramics to leather restoration and metalwork. Learn about heirloom crafts and the importance of restoration in an increasingly fast-paced, throwaway culture. Featuring brand new stories about never-seen-before objects, learn about the skills and techniques at the centre of the workshop of dreams and hear about the many lives these experts touch.

About the author

An ambassador of the Prince's Foundation and Co-Chair of Heritage Crafts, Jay is a furniture restorer, author, and TV presenter, best known for his role as host of the BBC One prime time hit show, The Repair Shop.

In 2021, Jay published his first book Making It: How Love, Kindness and Community Helped Me repair My Life, an instant Sunday Times bestseller. His second book, Jay's DIY Bible: How To Repair and Refresh Your Home was published in 2022, and his third, Life Lessons, was published in September 2023.

In 2023, Jay and The Repair Shop team won a Bafta in the Daytime category for The Repair Shop: A Royal Visit. Jay is First Chancellor of Buckinghamshire New University and was appointed an MBE in the 2021 Birthday Honours. He recently appeared on Radio 4's Desert Island Discs. Jay grew up in Hackney and lives in Shropshire.
Jayne Dowle is an award-winning writer, copywriter and book editor.

Product details

• Authors: Jay Blades, Jayne Dowle, Dowle Jayne, JAY BLADES, Elizabeth Wilhide
• Assisted by: Jay Blades (Foreword)
• Publisher: Kyle
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.10.2023
• EAN: 9781914239656
• ISBN: 978-1-914239-65-6
• No. of pages: 192
• Dimensions: 192 mm x 248 mm x 24 mm
• Subjects: Guides > Sport; Humanities, art, music > Art > Antiques; Handicrafts, decorative arts & crafts, Pottery, ceramics & glass crafts, HOUSE & HOME / Do-It-Yourself / General, HOUSE & HOME / Do-It-Yourself / Masonry, Camping & woodcraft, Embroidery crafts, DIY: general, Jewellery & beadcraft, DIY: carpentry & woodworking, Decorative woodwork