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10 best books like Sunlight on the Lawn (Beverley Nichols): The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady, Brother Cadfael's Herb Garden: An Illustrated Companion to Medieval Plants and Their Uses, Tryst, Our Life in Gardens, Two Gardeners: Katharine S. White & Elizabeth Lawrence--A Friendship in Letters, My Garden (Book), Daniel Plainway: Or the Holiday Haunting of the Moosepath League, Cultivating Delight: A Natural History of My Garden, Green Thoughts: A Writer in the Garden, Onward and Upward in the Garden

The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady
AuthorEdith Holden
ISBN1846660157
Holden, Edith s The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady, and The Nature Notes of an Edwardian Lady have been a marketing sensation in Europe persisting throughout the years as a perennial bestseller in the gift and book markets in the form of stationery, address books, craft books, and calendars. We are...
Brother Cadfael's Herb Garden: An Illustrated Companion to Medieval Plants and Their Uses
AuthorRobin Whiteman
ISBN0821223879
Brother Cadfael is the world's best-known twelfth-century monk, a renowned herbalist and clever sleuth who has appeared in twenty novels as well as an ongoing public television series starring Derek Jacobi. Now, with this beautifully illustrated book, Cadfael fans can spend a typical year with...
Tryst
AuthorElswyth Thane
ISBN0884119564
I've just finished this incredible book and my eyes are red and snot is dripping from my nose and I have the worst headache from sobbing uncontrollably, and all I can say is I wish I could feel this way more often about a book.

- I LOVED this book.

- I ADORED this book.

- I wish I had...
Our Life in Gardens
AuthorJoe Eck
ISBN0374160317
This is the third book we have written together, though separately we have written others . . . But to say ‘written separately' makes no sense, for when two lives have been bent for so many years on one central enterprise—in this case, gardening—there really is no such thing as separately."

With...
Two Gardeners: Katharine S. White & Elizabeth Lawrence--A Friendship in Letters
AuthorEmily Herring Wilson
ISBN0807085596
A legendary editor at The New Yorker during its first thirty-four years, Katharine S. White was also a great garden enthusiast. In March 1958 she began publishing her popular column, "Onward and Upward in the Garden." Her first column elicited loads of fan mail, but one letter in particular caught her...
My Garden (Book)
AuthorJamaica Kincaid
ISBN0374527768
One of our finest writers on one of her greatest loves.Jamaica Kincaid's first garden in Vermont was a plot in the middle of her front lawn. There, to the consternation of more experienced friends, she planted only seeds of the flowers she liked best. In My Garden (Book): she gathers all she loves about...
Daniel Plainway: Or the Holiday Haunting of the Moosepath League
AuthorVan Reid
ISBN0141001909
This is one of my favorite books of all time, and I always think of it around Christmas. It's part of a series of stories, set in coastal Maine in the 1800s, about a club of goofy guys called The Moosepath League. They are the background in this particular story, which is an exquisite story about ghosts, the...
Cultivating Delight: A Natural History of My Garden
AuthorDiane Ackerman
ISBN0060199865
In the mode of her esteemed bestseller A Natural History of the Senses, Diane Ackerman's new book, Cultivating Delight celebrates the sensory pleasures she discovers in her garden.

Ackerman delights in her garden through all the seasons. Whether she is deadheading flowers or glorying in...
Green Thoughts: A Writer in the Garden
AuthorEleanor Perenyi
A classic in the literature of the garden, Green Thoughts is a beautifully written and highly original collection of seventy-two essays, alphabetically arranged, on topics ranging from “Annuals” and “Artichokes” to “Weeds” and “Wildflowers.” An amateur gardener for over thirty...
Onward and Upward in the Garden
AuthorKatharine S. White
ISBN0807085618
Katharine White began working at The New Yorker in 1925, the year of its founding, and was an editor there for thirty-four years, shaping the careers of such writers as John O'Hara, Vladimir Nabokov, and Jean Stafford. Throughout and beyond those years she was also a gardener. In 1958, when her job as...
We Made a Garden
AuthorMargery Fish
ISBN0375759476
First published in Britain in 1956 and never before available in America, We Made a Garden is the classic story of a unique and enduring English country garden. One of Britain’s most esteemed gardening writers recounts how she and her husband set about creating an exemplary cottage garden from unpromising...
The Writer in the Garden
AuthorJane Garmey
ISBN1565121813
Not the least of the charms of this collection is that it is printed on quality paper, with delightful line drawings, and is just the right size to encourage the reader to take it in hand and turn the pages--which they will surely want to do once they have dipped into any chapter, where they will find some...
The Curious Gardener
AuthorAnna Pavord
ISBN1408808889
In The Curious Gardener, Anna Pavord brings together in 12 chapters - one from each month of the year - 72 pieces on all aspects of gardening.

From what to do in each month and how to get the best from flowers, plants, herbs, fruit and vegetables, through reflections on the weather, soil, the English...
Old Herbaceous: A Novel of the Garden
AuthorReginald Arkell
ISBN0812967380
Back in print after fifty years

Old Herbaceous is a classic British novel of the garden, with a title character as outsized and unforgettable as P. G. Wodehouse’s immortal butler, Jeeves. Born at the dusk of the Victorian era, Bert Pinnegar, an awkward orphan child with one leg a tad longer...
Mrs. Whaley and Her Charleston Garden
AuthorEmily Whaley
ISBN0684843870
The vibrant, opinionated, and totally engaging voice of eighty-five-year-old Emily Whaley transforms a guided tour of one of the most visited private gardens in America into a magical adventure, alive with tidbits of advice and deeply moving reflections.Gardeners are not the only ones who will...
Beatrix Potter's Gardening Life: The Plants and Places That Inspired the Classic Children's Tales
AuthorMarta McDowell
ISBN1604693630
A New York Times Bestseller
Winner of the Garden Writers Association Gold Award

There aren’t many books more beloved than The Tale of Peter Rabbit and even fewer authors as iconic as Beatrix Potter. Her characters—Peter Rabbit, Jemima Puddle Duck, and all the rest—exist in...
The Magic Apple Tree: A Country Year
AuthorSusan Hill
ISBN0140064206
This is a comforting read! Definitely a book I want to keep on my shelf, for long winter evenings.

Susan Hill describes life in the country in 'ye old England'-village-style. She writes very warmly about old houses, friendly villagers, changing seasons, countryside beauty and nature. She...
Tasha Tudor's Garden
AuthorTovah Martin
ISBN0395436095
Tasha Tudor's poignant art has fascinated adults and children for decades. Her nineteenth-century New England lifestyle is legendary. Gardeners are especially intrigued by the profusion of antique flowers -- spectacular poppies, six-foot foxgloves, and intoxicating peonies -- in the cottage...
The Joy of Snow
AuthorElizabeth Goudge
ISBN0698106059
I have a friend, Jeannette, who gives me gifts especially picked out for me and of course, they are always books. Two Christmases ago she gave me this memoir by Elizabeth Goudge. I knew it would be wonderful and it was. The picturesque tour of Elizabeth's different homes in England was so much fun. Some...
In Your Garden
AuthorVita Sackville-West
ISBN0711223548
From 1946, the poet and novelist Vita Sackville-West wrote a gardening column in the Observer. The columns were later collected into a set of books published between 1951 and 1958. Vita's extensive gardening knowledge, her intense passion for her subject and her lively literary flair make these classics...
Cheerfulness Breaks In
AuthorAngela Thirkell
ISBN0786703180
Following the social event of the summer, the marriage of Rose Birkett (the county's scatterbrain heart-breaker), Fall brings WWII. The transition to war introduces unexpected elements into the Barsetshire milieu. Despite the newly somber atmosphere, evacuee children (see Nurse's "lust for...
P. G. Wodehouse: A Life in Letters
AuthorP.G. Wodehouse
ISBN0091796342
Key Note The collected letters of England's best-loved comic writer Key Features/Quotes Published with the full cooperation of the Wodehouse family Contains new and unpublished correspondence Expertly edited by Oxford academic Sophie Ratcliffe The only volume of Wodehouse letters on the market...
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