Life in the Garden
By: Penelope Lively
3.58
Format: 199 pages, Hardcover
The two central activities in my life - alongside writing - have been reading and gardening. Pen…
Want to Read $ 13.99"So far as I am concerned the difference between men and women is that men are interested in cutting grass and women are not. I actually prefer a daisy-sprinkled lawn; Jack, of course, wanted meticulous stripes."-Penelope Lively, Life in the Garden
"Anthropomorphism is unavoidable, I am finding, in writing about gardening: weeds don't just grow, they grow with intent, they grow aggressively. Well, they do, as any gardener knows. They sneak in and swarm up when your back is turned."-Penelope Lively, Life in the Garden
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1. Lonesome Road (Miss Silver, #3)
By: Patricia Wentworth
3.97
Format: 214 pages, Paperback
Every year beautiful Rachel Treherne must rewrite her will--and decide who will inherit her late fa… read more
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- british literature
2. The Golden Notebook
By: Doris Lessing
4.23
Format: None pages, Paperback
Anna is a writer, author of one very successful novel, who now keeps four notebooks. In one, with a… read more
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3. Hotel Pastis: A Novel of Provence
By: Peter Mayle
3.83
Format: None pages, Paperback
With his national bestsellers A Year in Provenceand Toujours Provence, Peter Mayle gave new meaning… read more
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4. The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets
By: Eva Rice
2.96
Format: 63 pages,
Set in 1950s London The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets centers around Penelope the wide- eyed daughter… read more
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- british literature
5. The Gardener's Year
By: Karel Čapek , Josef Čapek
4.04
Format: 130 pages, Paperback
It is seldom that a practical guide to gardening attains the level of a literary masterpiece, still… read more
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- nature
- gardening
- nonfiction
- essays
6. A Month in the Country
By: J.L. Carr , Michael Holroyd
3.76
Format: None pages,
In J. L. Carr's deeply charged poetic novel, Tom Birkin, a veteran of the Great War and a broken ma… read more
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- british literature
7. Old Herbaceous: A Novel of the Garden
By: Reginald Arkell
3.59
Format: 83 pages, Paperback
Back in print after fifty years Old Herbaceousis a classic British novel of the garden, with a titl… read more
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8. Flowers for the Judge (Albert Campion Mystery, #7)
By: Margery Allingham
3.99
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Scandal hits the prestigious publishing house of Barnabas when one of the directors is found dead i… read more
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- audiobook
- british literature
9. Quartet in Autumn
By: Barbara Pym
3.90
Format: 186 pages, Paperback
This is the story of four people in late middle-age - Edwin, Norman, Letty and Marcia - whose chief… read more
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- british literature
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11. Elizabeth and Her German Garden
By: Elizabeth von Arnim
3.73
Format: 207 pages, Paperback
An alternative cover for this ISBN can be found here. "Elizabeth and Her German Garden," a novel… read more
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"I shall not let myself be frightened away by the sarcasm of owls."-Elizabeth von Arnim, Elizabeth and Her German Garden
"We are none of us ever thankful enough, and yet we each get so much, so very much, more than we deserve."-Elizabeth von Arnim, Elizabeth and Her German Garden
", and there were days last winter when I danced for sheer joy out in my frost-bound garden, in spite of my years and children."-Elizabeth von Arnim, Elizabeth and Her German Garden
"Oh, I thought of calling it Journeyings in Germany. It sounds well, and would be correct. Or Jottings from German Journeyings--I haven't quite decided yet..."-Elizabeth von Arnim, Elizabeth and Her German Garden
12. Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
By: Laura Cumming
4.19
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestselling author Laura Cumming “combines first-rate art history with deeply felt m… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
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- audiobook
"It is such a long journey out, this one, from where we came; this life, our life, the journey between the first and last shores."-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
"We see pictures in time and place. We cannot see them otherwise. They are fragments of our lives, moments of existence that may be as unremarkable as rain or as startling as a clap of thunder. Whatev…"-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
"I cannot get enough of Dutch art. You can turn to this other world -- and it is a picture world as no other, a whole society visualised through time and place, seasons and generations, moment by mome…"-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
"Fabritius is thirty-two, and I was the same age when I first wrote about his self-portrait. He and I remain the same age whenever we meet. He is dead, I am still alive, so the existential maths [sic]…"-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
13. The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
By: Olivia Laing
4.07
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In 2020, Olivia Laing began to restore a walled garden in Suffolk, an overgrown Eden of unusual pla… read more
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- british literature
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- nonfiction
- essays
- nature
- audiobook
"One of the operations by which capitalism perpetuates itself is displacement, the determined and absolute separation of the product from the site of production, so that when we buy petrol or peat fro…"-Olivia Laing, The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
14. A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma
By: Noreen Masud
4.20
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
A surprising and lyrical journey—part memoir, part nature book—meditating on the meaning of "flatne… read more
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"We tell stories to make them visible. Or we tell stories so that we don’t have to look at them any longer."-Noreen Masud, A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma
"Supposedly trauma transcends language and time, and is therefore untellable. Perhaps sometimes it does and is. But I think traumatized people do know how to tell their stories. What’s difficult is th…"-Noreen Masud, A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma
"Supposedly, trauma transcends language and time, and is therefore untellable. Perhaps sometimes it does, and is. But I think traumatized people do know how to tell their stories. What’s difficult is …"-Noreen Masud, A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma
"I was held captive by this unyielding, silent space, and I began to understand two things. The flatness wasn’t an absence - not in the way we might assume it is - but something strong and original an…"-Noreen Masud, A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma
15. Enlightenment
By: Sarah Perry
3.70
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling new work of literary fiction from the author of The Essex Serpent, a story of love and a… read more
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"Thomas [Hart] lived where he'd been born, and where (so he often thought without rancor) he'd very likely die; and if he lived alone he was not lonely, that being a condition not of solitude but of l…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
"So I told her this: that it's true I've only rarely been happy, and perhaps more often been sad. But I have been content. I have lived. I have felt everything available to me: I've been faithless, de…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
"I wish I could say, James, that we forgave each other in the end. I wish I could say: she put her head on my shoulder and I welcomed it and we laughed and said all was well. But in fact we were quiet…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
"...in the ordinary way we love because we're loved, and give more or less what we're given. But to love without return is more strange and more wonderful, and not the humiliating thing I'd once taken…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
16. Lies and Sorcery
By: Elsa Morante
4.16
Format: 800 pages, Paperback
Elsa Morante is one of the great writers of the twentieth century—Natalia Ginzburg said she was the… read more
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17. The Easy Life
By: Marguerite Duras
3.79
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
For the first time in English, literary icon Marguerite Duras's foundational masterpiece about a yo… read more
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18. Life in the Garden
By: Penelope Lively
3.58
Format: 199 pages, Hardcover
The two central activities in my life - alongside writing - have been reading and gardening. Pen… read more
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- british literature
- natural history
- gardening
- nonfiction
- essays
- nature
- books about books
"So far as I am concerned the difference between men and women is that men are interested in cutting grass and women are not. I actually prefer a daisy-sprinkled lawn; Jack, of course, wanted meticulo…"-Penelope Lively, Life in the Garden
"Anthropomorphism is unavoidable, I am finding, in writing about gardening: weeds don't just grow, they grow with intent, they grow aggressively. Well, they do, as any gardener knows. They sneak in an…"-Penelope Lively, Life in the Garden
19. The Borrowed Hills
By: Scott Preston
3.87
Format: 303 pages, Kindle Edition
A cinematic neo-Western set in the fells of northern England. "Half Tarantino and half pitch-bla… read more
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"We’d burned through everything, even what we’d no right to, rubbed out the stars and hid the moon, and if the night sky wasn’t already black, we’d have had a good go at making it."-Scott Preston, The Borrowed Hills
"She’d look at me like I’m an idiot since I am one, but she still looked at me. That’s how Helen was, and that’s how I’ve always been. That’s why I like dogs more than people. Why I am a bloody dog. T…"-Scott Preston, The Borrowed Hills
"Two weeks of thinking I’d sort it out tomorrow, what came next. Eating crisps in bed or in the bath and getting a headache from all the salt. Daytime telly on as if it can keep you warm—the kind that…"-Scott Preston, The Borrowed Hills
"It rained on the day of my dad’s funeral. Folk here are born with waterproof skin and a double set of eyelids like a trout. But I’ve seen nowt like it before. Wherever the ground dipped it turned to …"-Scott Preston, The Borrowed Hills
20. Why Women Grow: Stories of Soil, Sisterhood and Survival
By: Alice Vincent
3.84
Format: 305 pages, Kindle Edition
Women have always gardened, but our stories have been buried with our work. Alice Vincent is on a q… read more
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21. Rewild Yourself: 23 Spellbinding Ways To Make Nature More Visible
By: Simon Barnes
3.92
Format: 198 pages, Hardcover
We're not just losing the wild world. We're forgetting it. We're no longer noticing it. We've lost … read more
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"We’re not just losing the wild world. We’re forgetting it. We’re no longer noticing it. We’ve lost the habit of looking and seeing and listening and hearing. We’re beginning to think it’s not really …"-Simon Barnes, Rewild Yourself: 23 Spellbinding Ways To Make Nature More Visible
22. Every Time We Say Goodbye (Jane Austen Society, #3)
By: Natalie Jenner
3.58
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The bestselling author of The Jane Austen Society and Bloomsbury Girls returns with a brilliant nov… read more
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23. The Well-Gardened Mind: The Restorative Power of Nature
By: Sue Stuart-Smith
4.14
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A distinguished psychiatrist and avid gardener offers an inspiring and consoling work about the hea… read more
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- nonfiction
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"De chemische bestanddelen van verschillende bloemengeuren stimuleren bepaalde stemmingen en beïnvloeden hoe alert of juist ontspannen we ons voelen. Zo is recent gebleken dat lavendel, waarvan de kal…"-Sue Stuart-Smith, The Well-Gardened Mind: The Restorative Power of Nature
"Zelfs de kleinste wezens beschikken over een zenuwstelsel dat dopamine of aanverwante moleculen nodig heeft om tot zoek- en verzamelgedrag aan te zetten. De menselijke zenuwbanen zijn wellicht een co…"-Sue Stuart-Smith, The Well-Gardened Mind: The Restorative Power of Nature
24. More Was Lost
By: Eleanor Perényi
4.16
Format: 278 pages, Paperback
She writes about her marriage to a Hungarian baron, their life of a Ruthenian estate, and the devas… read more
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25. Hardy Women: Mother, Sisters, Wives, Muses
By: Paula Byrne
3.96
Format: 656 pages, Hardcover
Thomas Hardy once received a fan letter from a young woman in New York, who had read Tess of the D’… read more
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26. In Kiltumper: A Year in an Irish Garden
By: Niall Williams
4.23
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the authors of This Is Happiness and Her Name Is Rose, a memoir of life in rural Ireland and a… read more
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27. Zen in the Garden
By: Miki Sakamoto
3.39
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Spring, summer, autumn, and winter: wherever you are, the seasons come and go, bringing changes bot… read more
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28. A Poem for Every Summer Day
By: Allie Esiri
3.75
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Within the pages of Allie Esiri's gorgeous collection, A Poem for Every Summer Day, you will find v… read more
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29. Meet the Neighbors: Animal Minds and Life in a More-than-Human World
By: Brandon Keim
4.05
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
What does the science of animal intelligence mean for how we understand and live with the wild crea… read more
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