A good read is always in season! Whether you have a green thumb or can't keep a fake plant alive, you can still enjoy these novels about gardens and those who care for them.
Hiding from the world after her husband's death, Tilly Silverberg, who owns a thriving gardening business, returns to England where she embarks on an unlikely relationship with American software developer James Nealy, who, to conquer his darkest fears, needs to plant a garden. Original.
An advisor to the recently crowned King James I, Sir Robert Cecil relies on the practical advice of John Tradescant, a loyal and talented gardener, who becomes an eyewitness to the historical events that are shaping a turbulent England on the brink of civil war.
A collection of short fictional works about the impact of gardens and gardening includes Colette's "Grape Harvest," Stephen King's "The Lawnmower Man," and V.S. Pritchett's "The Fig Tree." Edited by the author of Momilies. 17,500 first printing.
Assigned to write a monograph about a famous sixteenth-century garden, aimless young Cambridge scholar Adam Banting visits the enigmatic garden only to discover clues that the woman to whom the garden was dedicated may have been murdered, a finding that points to a related and more recent killing.
Olivia—who manages both a mysterious, lush garden and a safe home for abused women—is investigated by a former childhood friend who is now a cop after neighbors lodge complaints.
London is on fire from the Blitz, and a young woman gardener named Gwen Davis flees from the burning city for the Devon countryside. She has volunteered for the Land Army, and is to be in charge of a group of young girls who will be trained to plant food crops on an old country estate where the gardens have fallen into ruin. Also on the estate, waiting to be posted, is a regiment of Canadian soldiers. For three months, the young women and men will form attachments, living in a temporary rural escape.
Enduring a strict schedule that balances her teaching job with the hospital regimen required by her kidney disease, 36-year-old Gal Garner devotes her spare hours to cultivating a new rose variation before her world is upended by the arrival of her teenage niece.
300 years of history in a mythical town tucked deep in the Berkshire Mountains are explored in these stories. Linking them all is an extraordinary garden, where the greenest plant grows red and the answers to life's mysteries can be found.
Leaving London to move into a beautiful house in the country, Miranda and David find their marriage succumbing to long-standing conflicts until a mysterious Frenchman arrives to tend their garden, bringing with him a healing energy that is drawn from nature.
The Depression-era women of a Darling, Alabama garden club get to the bottom of a mysterious buried treasure and a young woman's murder in this new tale from the author of the China Bayles mystery series.