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Eudora Welty: The Optimist's Daughter
~ For discussion from Saturday, 23rd. June.
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Flowers and Gardens
Laetitia Maklouf: Sweetpeas for Summer: How to Create a Garden in a Year
Allyson Hayward: Norah Lindsay: The Life and Art of a Garden Designer
Catherine Horwood: Gardening Women: Their Stories from 1600 to the Present
Jane Brown: The Pursuit of Paradise: A Social History of Gardens and Gardening
Kathryn Bradley-Hole: Lost Gardens of England (From the Archives of "Country Life")
William Milliken: Flora Celtica: Plants and People in Scotland
Monty Don: The Jewel Garden: A Story of Despair and Redemption
Leslie Geddes-Brown: Chelsea: The Greatest Flower Show on Earth (RHS)
2012
2011
Lyndall Gordon: Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson and Her Family's Feuds
Ann Patchett: The Getaway Car: A Practical Memoir About Writing and Life
Oliver Burkeman: Help!: How to Become Slightly Happier and Get a Bit More Done
Molly Peacock: The Paper Garden: Mrs Delany Begins Her Life's Work at 72
Robertson Davies: The Cornish Trilogy - Vol. I: The Rebel Angels
David Allen: Getting Things Done: How to Achieve Stress-free Productivity
- Averil Stewart: 'Alicella': A Memoir of Alice King Stewart and Ella Christie
Robert Sackville-West: Inheritance: The Story of Knole and the Sackvilles
Edmund de Waal: The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance
Amanda Vickery: Behind Closed Doors: At Home in Georgian England
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Art and Architecture
David Torrance: Inside Edinburgh: Discovering the Classic Interiors of Edinburgh
J Gifford: Edinburgh (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Scotland)
- Mary Stewart-Wilson: Queen Mary's Dolls' House
John Harris: No Voice from the Hall: Early Memories of a Country House Snooper
- Trevor Garnham: Melsetter House, Orkney 1896, William Lethaby (Architecture in Detail)
Elizabeth Cumming: Hand, Heart and Soul: The Arts and Crafts Movement in Scotland
Knitting and other crafts
Laurie Wisbrun: The Complete Guide to Designing and Printing Fabric
Yoshiko Jinzenji: Quilting Line + Color: Techniques and Designs for Abstract Quilts
Adrienne Martini: Sweater Quest: My Year of Knitting Dangerously
Sue Prichard: Quilts 1700 - 2010: Hidden Histories, Untold Stories
Wendy Keele: Poems of Colour: Knitting in the Bohus Tradition
Kay Gardiner, Ann Shayne: Mason-Dixon Knitting Outside the Lines
Susie Johns: The Harmony Guides: Colourwork Stitches: 250 Designs to Knit
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