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GARDENS, GARDENERS, & GARDENING IN FICTION
"Ah yet, ere I descend to the grave
May I a small house and a garden have;
And a few friends, and many books, both true
Both wise and both delightful too!"
Abraham Cowley (1618-1667)For some people, reading about gardening is almost as enjoyable as actually getting out and planting. The titles on this list are about gardens, gardeners, and gardening, and range from mysteries to historical novels to love stories. All of these works can be found in the fiction collections of the Williamsburg Regional Library. If you need assistance finding these or other books, please ask at the Reference Desk.
Albert, Susan — Thyme of Death (first in the China Bayles series)
Anderson, J.R.L — Death in the Greenhouse
Bayer, Valerie — City of Childhood
Beaton, M.C. — Agatha Raisin and the Potted Gardener
Borthwick, J.S. — The Garden Plot
Brown, Carrie — Rose's Garden
Buchan, Elizabeth — Consider the Lily
Cannell, Dorothy — Down the Garden Path
Christie, Agatha — Murder at the Vicarage
Coetzee, J.M. — The Life and Times of Michael K.
Craig, Alisa — The Grub-and-Stakers Move a Mountain
Dunn, Carola — The Winter Garden Mystery
Fforde, Katie — Wild Designs
Gregory, Philippa — Earthly Joys; Virgin Earth
Hoffman, Alice — Practical Magic
Jackson, Muriel — The Garden Club
Laker, Rosalind — The Golden Tulip
Landrum, Graham — The Garden Club Mystery
Lemarchand, Elizabeth — Change for the Worse
Lennox-Smith, Judith — The Italian Garden
MacLeod, Charlotte — Vane Pursuit (Peter Shandy series)
McMullen, Mary — A Grave Without Flowers
Peters, Ellis — One Corpse too Many (Brother Cadfael series)
Pilcher, Rosamunde — The Shell Seekers
Rendell, Ruth — The Crocodile Bird
Ripley, Ann — Death of a Garden Pest (Gardening Mystery series)
Rothenberg, Rebecca — The Shy Tulip Murders
Sherwood, John — The Mantrap Garden (Celia Grant series)
Shields, Carol — The Stone Diaries
Simonson, Sheila — Larkspur
Sullivan, Faith — The Cape Ann
Trevor, William — Silence in the Garden
Tsukiyama, Gail — The Samurai's Garden
Von Arnim, Elizabeth — The Enchanted April
West, Jessamyn — The Friendly Persuasion
Whitney, Phyllis — Hunter's Green(BT 3/99)
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