W. Somerset Maugham: The Razor's Edge
~ For discussion from Saturday, 25th. May
Marilyn Brown: Scotland's Lost Gardens: From the Garden of Eden to the Stewart Palaces
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)
Alexander McCall Smith: Trains and Lovers: The Heart's Journey
Jean-Claude Ellena: The Diary of a Nose: A Year in the Life of a Parfumeur
Kate Summerscale: Mrs Robinson's Disgrace: The Private Diary of a Victorian Lady
Alexander McCall Smith: The Limpopo Academy Of Private Detection
James Runcie: Sidney Chambers and the Shadow of Death (The Grantchester Mysteries)
Wendy Jones: The Thoughts & Happenings of Wilfred Price, Purveyor of Superior Funerals
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
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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"Put a picture on a wall and you cut a window into another world.
From this he falls to thinking of all the paintings he knows which represent actual windows and the view beyond ... The effect of the frame within the frame is potent, almost magical. What is it about windows? The comfort and safety of the known world set beside the promise and excitement of a world beyond."
From Motherland
Painting: A Window in St. John's Wood, Harold Knight, c. 1932.
There's more Nicholson/Knight here.
David Torrance: Inside Edinburgh: Discovering the Classic Interiors of Edinburgh
J Gifford: Edinburgh (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Scotland)
John Harris: No Voice from the Hall: Early Memories of a Country House Snooper
Elizabeth Cumming: Hand, Heart and Soul: The Arts and Crafts Movement in Scotland
Thomasina Beck: The Embroiderer's Story: Needlework from the Renaissance to the Present Day
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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