Lucy Worsley

A unique celebration of gardening written by an award-winning novelistDespite the fact that she has only six square metres of grubby urban soil and a few pots, Charlotte Mendelson has a secret life. She is an extreme gardener, an obsessive, an addict. And like all addicts, she wants to spread the joy. Beginning with Late Winter, Charlotte takes the...

An engrossing group portrait of five women writers, including Virginia Woolf, who moved to London's Mecklenburgh Square in search of new freedom in their life and work. "I like this London life . . . the street-sauntering and square-haunting."--Virginia Woolf, diary, 1925In the early twentieth century, Mecklenburgh Square--a hidden architectural ge...

In 1842, thirteen-year-old orphan Maria Merryweather arrives at Moonacre Manor, her family's ancestral home in an charmed village in England's West Country, and she feels as if she’s entered Paradise. Her new guardian, her uncle Sir Benjamin, is kind and funny; the Manor itself feels like home right away; and every person and animal she meets is li...

The Young Elizabeth. Now in favour, now out. Accepted by three step-mothers, a thorn in the conscience of her father, King henry VIII. From the age of eight, the mercurial young Elizabeth found royal courts were dangerous places if one wanted to keep a head on one's shoulders. As she grew up, so did the dangers surrounding her increase. Elizabeth k...