Are you concerned that your friends would melt away if they overheard your conversations with your kitties? Do you worry that it's not natural to know - really know - exactly what your cats are thinking? If so, Beverley Nichols is a kindred spirit with delightfully witty and utterly absorbing tales [...]
This reprint of the third book in Nichols' "Allways Trilogy" contains a new foreword by Bryan Connon, Beverley Nichols' biographer. Set in the English countryside, the hilarious memoir is as much about the author's love for plants as it is about the village in which he lived. The depictions of flowe[...]
Beverley Nichols (1898-1983) was a prolific author, playwright, composer, and media personality. Though much of his work has been forgotten, his garden writing has stood the test of time. His amusing anecdotes, poetic contemplations, and penetrating observations speak to all gardeners - from housepl[...]
No devoted reader of Beverley Nichols will want to be without "Garden Open Tomorrow." The sequel to his famous "Garden Open Today" (with its open invitation to readers everywhere to come see his garden for themselves), this is his final garden book and the summation of a long career spent enjoying a[...]
In this, the second volume of the "Merry Hall" trilogy, Nichols is less concerned with his garden and more with his house, but the story does include the memorable characters Our Rose, the ditzy floral designer, and the cantankerous gardener Oldfield.[...]
"Sunlight on the Lawn" brings to a close Beverley Nichols' delightful "Merry Hall" trilogy describing the renovation of his rundown Georgian mansion and its garden.[...]
"Down the Garden Path" has stood the test of time as one of the world's best-loved and most-quoted gardening books. Ostensibly an account of the creation of a garden in Huntingdonshire in the 1930s, it is really about the underlying emotions and obsessions for which gardening is just a cover story. [...]
This biography, first published in 1991, will be of interest to the thousands of readers who have come to know Nichols through his garden books. They will discover an altogether more complex personality than the witty, sometimes sardonic persona he created in his writings.[...]
One of the final books from Nichols' long carerr spent writing about gardens. The author distills 30 years of practical experience in a characteristically entertaining fashion.[...]
Author's account of the rescue and renovation of Merry Hall, a rundown Georgian mansion.
This hilarious memoir is brimming with unforgettable characters and the author's keen understanding of the important role gardens play in the modern world.[...]