Product Description: The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subjects: Ballads, English; Songs, English; English ballads and songs; Music / Genres

Product Description: 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 about his three cats, Four, Five, and Oscar...read more

Product Description: This is Nichols's final garden book and the summation of a long career spent enjoying and writing about gardens. Being Beverley Nichols, however, he cannot confine himself to a narrow discussion of gardening for long and provides entertaining asides on cats — including a hilarious critique of feline "ballet" performances — psychic phenomena, and the use of plants to commit murder...read more

Product Description: Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Hesperides Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Product Description: 'I have read every word of it. It has life and good nature. It is full of fun - written with an easy, vivid English' Somerset Maugham in The Sunday Times

Product Description: Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Hesperides Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Product Description: This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages.

Product Description: Down the Kitchen Sink has much in common with its famous predecessor, Down the Garden Path, in which Beverley Nichols described his early forays into the realm of gardening. When he began to write the first, he could not prune a rose...read more

Product Description: Anyone who has ever created a garden knows that it is a process replete with drama: there's the feverish excitement of drawing up plans and making lists of plants; the bleak depression of realizing the plans will have to be altered; the "Eureka!" moment when a brilliant solution presents itself; the grim frustration of dealing with meddlesome neighbors and recalcitrant plants...read more

Product Description: This reprint of the third book in Nichols's Allways trilogy contains a new foreword by Bryan Connon, Beverley Nichols's 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...read more

Product Description: Beverley Nichols fans, armchair gardeners, and literature enthusiasts will delight in this reprint of the second book in his Allways trilogy, with facsimile reproductions of Rex Whistler's original graceful illustrations and a new foreword by Roy C...read more

Product Description: 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...read more

Product Description: "Cats and flowers have played so large a part in my life that I can scarcely think of one without the other," Beverley Nichols reflects in his Cats' X. Y. Z. This volume details the further adventures of "Four," "Five," and Oscar, introduced into the limelight in his Cats' A...read more

Product Description: Our re-release of Beverley Nichols's Merry Hall Trilogy and Bryan Connon's Beverley Nichols: A Life has renewed interest in Nichols's wonderful, witty, urbane, and delightful observations of gardens and people. When Beverley Nichols first published Garden Open Today in 1963, he was already well known for his "garden adventure" books such as Down the Garden Path and Merry Hall, whose unforgettable characters still live in the imaginations of present-day gardeners...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Sunlight on the Lawn brings to a close Beverley Nichols's delightful Merry Hall trilogy describing the renovation of his run-down Georgian mansion and its garden. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

A fictionalized account of the author's experiences in a sleepy British village, where he tends to the pleasures of gardening and garden writing after World War II (view table of contents)

An unusual gardening book that discusses flowers and gardens in a non-fictional novel format, telling the story of a deserted garden that is transformed into a paradise

In a collection of fiction, essays, poetry, journal entries, and letters, authors including Colette, Gertrude Jekyll, Nancy Mitford, Edith Warton, and Andrew Marvel reflect on the wonders of gardening, from the joys of weeding and the pitfalls of roses to the trials of gardening in a cold climate.