Ruth Scurr

How do authors’ gardens inspire them?

A sumptuous coffee-table book in which writers from Henry James to Frances Hodgson Burnett are briefly glimpsed while passing through the beautiful spaces that outlast them

Virginia Woolf’s garden at her home Monk’s House in East Sussex. [Richard Hanson]

  • The Writer’s Garden: How Gardens Inspired the World’s Great Authors

    Jackie Bennett

    Frances Lincoln, pp. 240, £30

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