12 great authors offer their top tips on gardening, from Sylvia Plaths struggles with autumn bulbs, to JD Salingers helpful hints on growing from seed.
In Cormac McCarthys hands a landowners trip to the potting shed becomes a right of passage from which he will return transformed. Zolas striking miner finds life on the allotment more brutal and short than anything he imagined at the coal face. And Wodehouses hero, anticipating a visit from his aunt, realises that the right choice of houseplant may well save him from the ignominy of marriage. Inspired, botanically-accurate, and utterly hilarious, Machiavellis Lawn will appeal to green-fingered book lovers everywhere.