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The Brother Gardeners by Andrea Wulf Botany, Empire and the Birth of an Obsession
In 1734 Peter Collinson, a London cloth merchant who traded with the colony of Pennsylvania, collected a shipment of plants...
4 min read


The Keeper of Stories by Sally Page
The Keeper of Stories is fast paced, full of eccentric characters and above all funny-and there’s the added bonus of a very sharp little dog
3 min read


Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively
A romance plays out in a few days in the bizarre limbo that is colonial Cairo at the height of the desert war.
2 min read
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