A personal invitation into the private gardens – and private lives – of a roll call of fascinating (and mostly famous) people, in varied walks of life

Munstead Wood, home of Gertrude Jekyll for many years, was acquired by the National Trust in June 2023

“This poignant and revealing memoir adds vital new dimensions to our understanding of Mann, as both artist and human being.” - Mark Hudson, art critic, Independent

A photographic record of the gardens at Great Dixter, past and present

A stunning record of a house unique in the story of twentieth-century British architecture

The story of how an ancient house was brought back to life and a fitting garden created around it

Published to coincide with major Hogarth exhibition at Sir John Soane's Museum, October 2019

A glimpse behind the pen of the first female star of Fleet Street

A unique history of a Victorian house, brought to life in a witty and compelling fictional form

Brings together the sharp wit and the straight-talking wisdom of the man widely credited as the inventor of the modern garden

Isabel Bannerman reflects on the gardens she and her husband, Julian, have made together for the various houses in which they have lived, and the garden they are making now, at Ashington Manor in Somerset