Unrivalled gardening wisdom from Britain's favourite gardener.
Written as he talks, this is Monty Don right beside you in the garden, challenging norms and sharing his advice based on years of experience. Month-by-month, Monty reveals the jobs he does in his own garden, that he hopes are relevant to you. Monty shares his thoughts and garden ideas around nature, seasons, colour, design, pests, flowering shrubs, containers, and much more.
Monty's intimate and lyrical writing is accompanied by photos of his garden, showing areas rarely seen on television. With an updated foreword from Monty, this is the perfect gift for the gardener in your life.
Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,
Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone...
W. H. Auden was the consummate poet of love and heartbreak. Stop All the Clocks presents a selection of his best known, most lucid poems, poems that pitch human frailty against a persisting desire for love and belonging.
Here are the anxieties that beset our waking and sleeping hours: the delirium of desire, the torture of unrequited love, the trauma of loss and displacement. And here, in these resonant, dazzling poems, is the understanding we might be looking for.