England Gardens

Love grows in the most unimaginable of places in Summer N. England's sweet and spicy cozy romantasy debut, for fans of The Spellshop and For Whom the Belle Tolls! Most stories end with a happily ever after. But mine? Well, it begins with one ... After a lonely childhood, Clara Thorne is living...

Present day: Emma Lovett, who has dedicated her career to breathing new life into long-neglected gardens, has just been given the opportunity of a lifetime: to restore the gardens of the famed Highbury House estate, designed in 1907 by her hero Venetia Smith. But as Emma dives deeper into the gardens’ past, she begins to uncover secrets that have long lain hidden.

A darkly beautiful, eerie, hypnotic novel about two elderly sisters living alone at the edge of the world. In a place and time unknown, two elderly sisters live in a walled garden, secluded from the outside world. Evelyn and Lily have only ever known each other. What was before the garden, they...

After the excitement of her recent adventures in Paris, Mrs Hudson goes to stay with her married daughter Eleanor in Bilbourne, a little village in Kent, the Garden of England. It is September, and the hop-harvest is in full swing at the nearby plantation belonging to Thomas Brakefield. But if Mrs Hudson was hoping for some peace and quiet away from the city, she is to be disappointed, soon caught up in dark passions that culminate in a brutal murder. At great risk to herself, Mrs Hudson goes in pursuit of the perpetrator.

Julia Esdaile is hired to restore the historic gardens at Havenworth Manor—the grounds of which are now an abandoned snarl of bramble and weeds—to their original splendor. For the enigmatic lady of the manor, ninety-two-year-old Margaret Clarke, the reason for the restoration is the deeply private story of a promise made a lifetime ago, and a vow to keep it before she dies.

Is forest bathing for me and my dog? Yes! You don’t need a swimsuit - no special attire required. Forest bathing is accessible to all levels of fitness and mobility. It is a new (and very old) type of restorative stroll in the woods with your dog. Why do forest bathing with my dog? If you feel like you are bouncing from one thing to the next, never relaxing, forest bathing will reduce your stress, reset your nervous systems, have lasting positive effects on your immune system, and increase the well-being of both you and your dog.

An altogether different kind of book on English gardens—the first of its kind—a look at the history of England’s magnificent gardens as a history of Britain itself, from the seventeenth-century gardens of Charles II to those of Prince Charles today. In this rich, revelatory history, Sir...

The Covent Garden Ladies tells the story of Samuel Derrick, Jack Harris, and Charlotte Hayes, whose complicated and colorful lives were brought together by the publication of Harris' List, an infamous guidebook of prostitutes which detailed addresses, physical characteristics, and "specialties". The true history of the book is a tragicomedy motivated by poverty, passionate love, aspiration, and shame.

A museum gala. A forged antiquity. Tea and treachery. When Fiona Firth's bistro caters Seacliff Springs’ most elegant event, she expects excellent reviews, not a body. But when the town's sharp-tongued curator drops dead mid-toast, Fiona's signature tea service becomes the prime evidence. The official ruling: natural causes. Fiona's intuition: murder dressed in ceremony. With her restaurant's reputation on the line and the real killer still walking free, Fiona does what any bistro owner with a talent for observation would do: she starts asking questions. Aided by her loyal staff, a too-...

One dead wellness guru. One herbalist consultant. And someone determined to make her the prime suspect. Fiona Firth agreed to review Phoenix Thorne's ritual preparations as a professional favor. Finding him dead the next morning wasn't part of the deal. Now the authorities want to know why she was the last person to examine his supplies. Her bistro's good name is on the line…again. And the real killer is perfectly content letting her take the blame. A bitter rival with public threats. A facility manager facing financial ruin. Secrets stacked as carefully as the meditation cushions. ...

London, 1668. The monarchy has been restored—but the city is still rebuilding its soul. Margaret Hale is an anomaly in Restoration England: an independent, guild-recognized apothecary and botanist who rebuilt her Cheapside shop after the Great Fire and answers to no patron but her own discipline. Her knowledge is precise, dangerous, and carefully contained—recorded in a physick book she guards as fiercely as her glasshouse of poisonous plants. Étienne Moreau moves in a different world. A French physician trained on the Continent and bound by loyalty to Charles II, he occupies an uneasy...

Discovery. Desire. Deception. A wondrously imagined tale of two female botanists, separated by more than a century, in a race to discover a life-saving flower . . . In Victorian England, headstrong adventuress Elizabeth takes up her late father's quest for a rare, miraculous plant. She faces a...

No magic. No glass slipper. Only faith, courage, and the truest kind of love. Amelia Wren cherishes her quiet life with her devoted father, but everything changes when he remarries a woman with two unkind daughters. After a tragic carriage accident leaves Amelia orphaned, her stepmother’s cruelty knows no bounds—forcing her to work in the kitchen and keeping her hidden away from the rest of the world. When a chance meeting with her long-lost great-aunt, the compassionate and influential Lady Bryant, offers Amelia an escape, she finds herself swept into the glittering world of London’s...

From award-winning author Peter Godwin, an “eloquent” (The Wall Street Journal) memoir about his evolving relationships with the women and places that shaped his life. Peter Godwin’s mother is dying. Born in England, and having spent most of her adult life as a doctor in Zimbabwe, she now...

Survivor of a serial killer, Lanie Briers has created a new life for herself. Her refuge is a forgotten flat above a quirky Bloomsbury museum, but it's about to be invaded. Nick Tawes is a landscape architect filming a television series on roof gardens, and he intends to build one in Lanie’s aerial territory. As his sky garden grows he falls ever further in love with the mysterious Lanie. But Nick has his own demons, old family secrets. Maybe Lanie shouldn't trust him.

In The Taste of Empire, acclaimed historian Lizzie Collingham tells the story of how the British Empire's quest for food shaped the modern world. Told through 20 meals over the course of 450 years, from the Far East to the New World, Collingham explains how Africans taught Americans how to grow rice, how the East India Company turned opium into tea, and how Americans became the best-fed people in the world.

She was a spirited young heiress. He was a handsome baronet with a promising career in government. Their marriage had the makings of a fairy tale but ended as one of the most salacious and highly publicized divorces in history. For over 200 years the story of Lady Worsley, her vengeful husband, and her lover, George Maurice Bisset, lay forgotten. Now Hallie Rubenhold, in her impeccably researched book, throws open a window to a rarely seen view of Georgian England, one colored by passion, adventure, and the defiance of social convention.

A dazzling novel from one of our finest writers—an epic yet intimate family saga about three generations of all-American radicals At the center of Jonathan Lethem’s superb new novel stand two extraordinary women: Rose Zimmer, the aptly nicknamed Red Queen of Sunnyside, Queens, is an...

Kent; commonly referred to as the garden of England due to the abundance of green spaces, hop gardens and fruit farms. However, beneath the surface of rolling fields and quaint villages, there is a darker, more sinister history of ghosts and the paranormal. Join author Alan Tigwell as he takes you on a tour of the unknown haunted locations around the county. From Happy Valley in Tunbridge Wells, to Cobtree Manor Park in Aylesford, you will hear about the heart warming, spooky and scary true ghost stories of towns close by. The tales in this book have never been previously published; they ...

No Better Friend tells the incredible true story of Frank Williams, a radarman in Britain's Royal Air Force, and Judy, a purebred pointer, who met as prisoners of war during World War II. Judy, who became the war's only official canine POW, was a fiercely loyal dog who sensed danger - warning her fellow prisoners of imminent attacks and protecting them from brutal beatings. Frank and Judy's friendship, an unbreakable bond forged in the worst circumstances, is one of the great recently unearthed stories of World War II.