British Garden

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...

Miss Emma Arden has always cherished her quiet, independent life on the outskirts of London, devoted to learning about healing, botany and knowledge far beyond what society expects of her. That is until Nicholas Courteney, a charming man, enters her world- and then suddenly disappears just as quickly, making her lose her faith in love… When Oliver Courteney, the stern and commanding Earl of Mistwood, learns that Emma could be ruined by scandal after his cousin’s sudden disappearance, he steps in to protect her honor. As he shields her from society by offering himself as her husband, he ...

Lady Adelaide Cavendish was raised to be quiet and obedient. Orphaned young and taken in by a cruel aunt and uncle who saw her only as a way to settle their debts, she has learned to comply while hiding her true self. Now, promised to a cold, feared earl, she faces a marriage that may bind her even tighter… Lord Julien Redgrave, the Earl of Highmere Park, rules his estate with precision and distance, his reputation built on control and indifference. Raised to value duty above all, he keeps everyone at arm’s length, including his new wife. Yet, Adelaide’s quiet defiance disrupts his ...

I told her to leave. She stayed, and now I can’t breathe without her. They call me the mad Duke of Penrose— a beast locked inside a house as broken as my soul. I earned my silence in blood and war. I intend to keep it. Then she arrives in a storm. Small. Stubborn. Soaked to the bone— claiming she’s here to restore my mother’s ruined gardens. I try to send her away. She refuses. And every time I see her hands in the soil, coaxing life from death… something inside me begins to fracture. She looks at ruin and sees possibility. She looks at me—and doesn’t look away. I should ...

Scotland Yard detectives Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James are drawn into separate investigations that hold disturbing—and deadly—complications for their own lives in this powerful mystery in the bestselling series. On a beautiful morning in mid-May, the body of a young woman is found in one of...

When a woman is found strangled in the locked garden of historic Bishop Hewick Hall in Yorkshire, DCI Jim Oldroyd needs to solve a seemingly impossible murder. The only door was bolted from the inside and the kitchen garden walls are too high to climb. If no one could enter or leave, how did the killer commit the crime and escape? As Oldroyd and his team investigate the victim’s past, they discover Clarissa Morden wasn’t the kind elderly woman she appeared. Instead, she was a ruthless blackmailer who kept coded records of her neighbours’ darkest secrets.

Two feuding neighbors unite to resurrect a neglected city garden in this uplifting and quietly joyful novel by Sara Nisha Adams, author of the beloved The Reading List. In a small pocket of London, between the houses of No.77 and No.79 Eastbourne Road, lies a neglected community garden. It was a...

When Wicked Comes Calling . . . When a mysterious stranger finds his way into her bedchamber and offers his help in landing a duke, Lady Felicity Faircloth agrees—on one condition. She’s seen enough of the world to believe in passion, and won’t accept a marriage without it. The Wallflower...

Bloomsbury presents Operation Market-Garden 1944 (2): The British Airborne Missions by Ken Ford, read by Tom Alexander Osprey's trilogy on Operation Market-Garden continues with a fascinating account of the British airborne assault on the bridge across the Rhine at Arnhem. With Germany being...

A distinguished psychiatrist and avid gardener presents “a truly uplifting book on the power of gardening—and how it can change people’s lives” (Stylist, UK). The garden is often seen as a refuge, a place to forget worldly cares, removed from the “real” life that lies outside. When...

Murder isn't a walk in the park...War widow fashionista, Ginger Gold, makes a gruesome discovery while walking her Boston terrier, Boss, through Kensington Gardens. A woman of ill-repute is dead. When Chief Inspector Basil Reed becomes a suspect, the blustery and often times pigheaded Superintendent Morris pulls him off the case. Ginger’s not about to be pushed around by the superintendent despite his warnings.

A very popular audio guide which helps to identify the birds that come to our gardens. This download features top-quality recordings of the typical songs and calls of the fifty-two species most commonly found in British gardens. The perfect introduction to learning and identifying bird sounds in your garden.

'One of our finest crime writers' ― Peter James 'Fabulous' ― The Sun 'Creepy and complex' ― The Times Buried in the shadows and roots of the forest is a deadly secret that was never meant to come out . . . Driving through the mountains in a fierce winter storm, David Hunter is forced to...

A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK An absolutely delicious, compulsively readable, stylish novel about a young aristocratic woman, who has to choose between duty and her heart - think The Crown meets Taylor Jenkins Reid. 'I loved it. I devoured every page of this glorious novel.' Holly Ringland...

'When a robin appears, a loved one is near' In 2019, Tony Putman was working as a gardener in Edenbridge, Kent, when he noticed a bold robin sitting on a branch of an old plum tree. The robin glanced in his direction as he approached, but he didn't move, so Tony grabbed his camera and took a...

Normally transport squadrons aren't in the front line, but during Operation Market Garden No. 437 Squadron RCAF found themselves over Arnhem delivering supplies to the British 1st Airborne Division. This is their story.

One brother goes bankrupt, owing Jack thousands, but Ace, the slick brother offers Jack lucrative work he can’t refuse making a kitchen island and spying on Nadine, his wife. But once in the house, Jack is ensnared with the family, the brothers fighting, Nadine warming to him and a daughter selling drugs at school. Jack for a favour to Nadine does a job in the community garden opposite, hoping their relationship will blossom as he fobs off his employer. Money rots the soul, Jack learns, but jealousy is the worm in the apple. Amongst the greenery, everything converges with a murder, ...

Love at first smile… Charmingly wicked, Johnny Winter has spent his adulthood drifting from scandal to scandal. However, inheriting the dukedom of Dearham has him considering his responsibilities, one of which is to right the wrong done to a distant cousin twenty years ago. His search takes him to Maida Pleasure Gardens, where he is distracted by an unusual and intriguing beauty.

In the early 1900s, a young gardener at a lush English manor falls in love with her employer whose past is shrouded in deadly secrets—from the author of the “twisty, Gothic thriller” (Entertainment Weekly) Spitting Gold. In 1925, Vee Morgan arrives at Harfold Manor, a once-grand country...

Bloomsbury presents A Queer Inheritence by Michael Hall, read by George Potts ‘A revelatory masterpiece, a true alternative history of our times’ - Simon Jenkins, former Chair of the National Trust LGBTQ+ histories and identities come out of the National Trust’s properties in these...