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Seducers in Ecuador and the Heir by Vita Sackville-West
Category: Classic Fiction
Seducers in Ecuador is the story of Arthur Lomax, every bit the English gentleman in his white ducks and solar topee, enjoying the pleasures of an Egyptian cruise. But with the addition of a pair of blue spectacles to the outfit, Lomax's entire world changes - to alarming, deadly effect.Peregrine Chase ...Show more
Sissinghurst: Vita Sackville-West and the Creation of a Garden by Vita Sackville West & Sarah Raven
Category: Gardening
From 1946 to 1957, Vita Sackville-West, the British poet, bestselling author of All Passion Spent and maker of Sissinghurst, wrote a weekly column in the Observer depicting her life at Sissinghurst, showing her to be one of the most visionary horticulturalists of the twentieth-century. With wonder ...Show more
Some Flowers by Vita Sackville-West
Category: Gardening | Series: National Trust Home & Garden
In Some Flowers, originally published in 1937, Vita Sackville-West took the novel step of choosing 25 of her favourite flowers and describing their appearance, origins and characteristics - and the best ways to grow them - in a series of brilliantly expressive pen portraits which retain their vitality o ...Show more
The Edwardians by Vita Sackville-West
Category: Fiction
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY KATE WILLIAMS. Sebastian is young, handsome and romantic, the heir to a vast and beautiful English country estate. He is a fixed feature in the eternal round of lavish parties, intrigues and traditions at the cold, decadent heart of Edwardian high society. Everyone knows the role ...Show more
The Edwardians by Vita Sackville-West
Category: Fiction
At nineteen, Sebastian is a duke and heir to a vast country estate. A deep sense of tradition binds him to his inheritance, though he loathes the social circus he is a part of. Deception, infidelity and greed hide beneath the glittering surface of good manners. Among the guests at a lavish party are two ...Show more
Twelve Days in Persia: Across the Mountains with the Bakhtiari Tribe by Vita Sackville-West
Category: Travel
A year after Vita Sackville-West first travelled to Iran - a journey described in the classic "Passenger to Teheran" - she returned to the land that had so captured her imagination. For twelve days, with her husband and three friends, she embarked on a difficult and often dangerous journey through the r ...Show more
Vita Sackville-West: A Note of Explanation by Vita Sackville-West; Kate Baylay
Category: Junior Fiction
A Note of Explanation is a previously unknown work by iconic writer Vita Sackville-West. Written in 1922, it was recently rediscovered as a miniature book in Queen Mary's dollhouse in Windsor Castle. Witty and stylish, the story recounts the antics of a time-traveling sprite who inhabits the dollhouse. ...Show more
Vita Sackville West's Sissinghurst: The creation of a Garden by Vita Sackville-West & Sarah Raven
Category: Home and Garden
From 1946 to 1957, Vita Sackville-West, the poet, bestselling author of All Passion Spent and maker of Sissinghurst, wrote a weekly column in the Observer depicting her life at Sissinghurst, showing her to be one of the most visionary horticulturalists of the twentieth-century. With wonderful additions ...Show more