Books like Garden open tomorrow by Beverley Nichols

A beloved 1930s memoir of Manchester‑inspired garden creation in Huntingdonshire, depicting the eccentric visitors and enduring love for gardening that shape the story.

Two Lives chronicles the remarkable 20th‑century friendship, marriage and survival of Shanti Behari Seth, an Indian immigrant to Berlin, and Helga Gerda Caro, a young German Jewish woman, whose lives span war, exile and enduring love.

Elspeth Huxley reflects on her life in Kenya after the famous *Flame Trees of Thika*, recalling the people, places, and her 1983 visit.

A practical guide for starting an organic vegetable farm, covering soil management, crop planning, equipment, organic fertilizers, pest control, and farm economics, designed for both new and experienced growers.

"Be prepared. Beverley Nichols' garden books are part PG Wodehouse and part James Barrie — full of hilarious Jeeves-like characters and events, with moments of Peter Pan magic." "The charm of Merry Hall, Laughter on the Stairs (mostly about the house) and Sunlight on the Lawn is undeniable, a mixture of the lyrical, the teasing, the understatedly witty and the self-mockingly camp. In this, the second volume of the Merry Hall trilogy, Nichols is less concerned with his garden and more with his house, but the story does include the memorable characters Our Rose, the ditzy floral designer, and the cantankerous gardener Oldfield." [Nichols] the very model of gardening insouciance, ... wrote at least once about everything and ... is nearly the Bertie Wooster of gardening, and I say nearly only because some would consider it an insult to be called the Bertie Wooster of anything."