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Books

Is there anything new left in gardening books?

A round up of the year’s best gardening books takes in Madison Cox’s The Gardener’s Garden, George Plumptre’s The English Country-House Garden, Roy Strong’s The Laskett, Sarah Raven’s Vita Sackville-West’s Sissinghurst, Ursula Buchan’s The Garden Anthology, Charles Dowding’s Gardening Myths and Misconceptions, Thomas J. Mickey’s America’s Romance with the English Garden and Caroline Foley’s Of Cabbages and Kings

22 November 2014

9:00 AM

22 November 2014

9:00 AM

‘Whither the novel’ was a great dinner party topic in the 1960s. It is a question less aired these days, when novels come in strange and varied forms. From Paul Kingsnorth’s The Wake, set in the 11th century andwritten in cod Olde Englisshe, to the versifying of Constantine Phipps (much chosen as ‘book of the year’), there is plenty to please us all.

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