book reviews

Book Review: Chasing the Rose by Andrea di Robilant

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Italian writer Andrea di Robilant has long been a man in search of the past. He mined a rich vein of family history in Lucia: A Venetian Life in the Age of Napoleon, the 2008 biography of his ancestor Lucia Mocenigo, a late eighteenth and early nineteenth century Venetian aristocrat and friend of the French … Read more

Book Reveiw: My Secret Garden by Alan Titchmarsh

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Alan Titchmarsh is quintessentially English, from his last name to his loves—gardening, dogs, country life and the Queen.  Best known to Americans from the imported gardening makeover series, Ground Force, Titchmarsh is a celebrity in Britain.  He hosts the BBC’s round the clock coverage of the Chelsea Flower Show every year, has written numerous garden … Read more