Böcker av Jennifer Potter

The extraordinary story of the British women who made the perilous journey to Jamestown, Virginia, to become wives for tobacco planters in the New Colony.

The lotus, lily, sunflower, opium poppy, rose, tulip and orchid: one of our finest horticultural historians considers a septet of flowers that have enflamed hearts and minds in cultures around the world.

Now available in hardback at GBP16.99 and packed with over 125 integrated colour illustrations and paintings, The Rose is a very beautiful and desirable Christmas present.

This 'wonderful book' (Jane Stevenson, Daily Telegraph) describes the remarkable lives and times of the John Tradescants, father and son, immortalized in Philippa Gregory's bestselling novels Earthly Joys and Virgin Earth.

Janey meets Georges at a party in Bordeaux and is drawn to him because he reminds her of Jean Paul Belmondo in 'Breathless'. But dark secrets lie in his past and she throws away their grand passion in a moment's panic. What prompted her flight and what has she spent so long trying to forget?