{"title":"Books by Claire Masset","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9781909741690","title":"Buckingham Palace: A Royal Garden","description":"\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56308442497397,"sku":"9781909741690","price":16.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781909741690_39f3142a-5151-4e37-8e36-e998375e8ad5.jpg?v=1786028996"},{"product_id":"9781849947565","title":"Why We Garden","description":"\u003cb\u003eExplore the mystery of what makes us love gardening, via history, science, art, and philosophy.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhether you seek sanctuary in your potting shed, find paradise amongst your patio plants, or enjoy the simply solace of your hands in the soil, there is beauty, peace, and happiness to be found for every gardener in this thoughtful and entertaining collection.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBoth a hymn to gardening and a call to action, this down-to-earth guide is worth a hundred how-tos. Wander the gardens of Giverny with Monet to create your own beautiful masterpiece or, like George Orwell, reap the joy to be found in the work of an allotment. Discover the soothing symmetry in the spiral of sunflower seeds, or, like William Morris, provide a wild abundance of floral habitat for the natural visitors to your garden.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawing inspiration from gardening greats—from the ancient Greek and French philosophers Epicurus and Voltaire, via the wisdom of Margery Fish and Gertrude Jekyll, to Monty Don and modern-day guerrilla gardeners—this beautifully illustrated compilation is a thoughtful gift for any gardener.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56308443414901,"sku":"9781849947565","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781849947565_1ec251fa-b27c-46a0-9ef8-a6dc22e35186.jpg?v=1786029076"},{"product_id":"9781909881907","title":"Secret Gardens","description":"A whimsical and beautiful book celebrating these hidden gems of the National Trust – from specially made secret gardens to overlooked corners of famous gardens and re-discovered lost gardens.Stunning photographs of the Trust’s idiosyncratic gardens are accompanied by a light text meditating on the magic of the secret garden, and bringing in fascinating historical and botanical details. The book will include secret mazes, hidden corners, walled gardens, lost gardens, gardens that are only open one day a year, follies, orchards, dens, memorials, strange statues, stumperies, huts, ice houses, wendy houses, fairy gates and pixie houses. The gardens featured include the palm-filled Overbeck’s in Devon, Peckover House in Cambridgeshire, which bursts with exotic specimens found on Victorian plant-hunting expeditions, and Monk’s House in East Sussex, where the garden proved a refuge for Virginia Woolf.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56308989821301,"sku":"9781909881907","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781909881907_bda1d3f4-5d5c-41dd-ab60-af5fc9173b3e.jpg?v=1786034175"},{"product_id":"9781837330386","title":"Garden Voices","description":"\u003cb\u003eA fascinating celebration of our love for all things horticultural, with a selection of garden-related entries from diaries, letters, and articles for every day of the year.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGarden Voices\u003c\/i\u003e captures the past and present of gardening with dated, daily musings organized around the calendar year, bringing gardening and gardeners to life like never before. In this engaging anthology, readers are transported back in time—and often place—to witness rare horticultural glimpses. We find George Orwell, half-naked, digging his newly acquired rock-filled, “dry as a bone” garden on the Isle of Jura on May 25, 1946. On September 25, 1845, Emily Dickinson picks the last flowers of summer before Jack Frost gets them. In New Mexico, Georgia O’Keeffe reveals to her New York–based lover Alfred Stieglitz that she has just discovered the joy of gardening. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKey figures – from Samuel Pepys to Charles Darwin and Sigmund Freud, QueenVictoria to Virginia Woolf and Germaine Greer – feature alongside much-lovedgardeners, such as Gertrude Jekyll, Margery Fish and Claude Monet, as well aslesser-known but no-less inspiring garden writers, including Eleanor Vere Boyleand Celia Thaxter, whose writing will be a revelation to many.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhether tinged with emotion or filled with character and humor, strikingly evocative or thought-provoking, these daily thoughts remind us that gardeners are all connected by a timeless invisible thread. With several selections for each day, from January 1 to December 31, this book is a true celebration of horticulture, and is the perfect gift for the gardener or garden lover in your life. \u003ci\u003eGarden Voices\u003c\/i\u003e brings joy, comfort, a gladdening sense of affinity, and—much like gardening itself—moments of awe and inspiration.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56369310007669,"sku":"9781837330386","price":30.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781837330386_e0284356-f515-488d-af6d-5bd53a2736ed.jpg?v=1786028243"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-claire-masset.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}