Paul Gater
The Magic Of Flowers

Paul Gater has spent over forty years as a horticulturist, working in close proximity to flowers, trees and plants. This book includes such topics as the history of flowers, mythology, flowers as healers, the language of flowers, flower faeries, flower names, invocations, traditional prayers and rhymes, and in general the symbolic meaning and long relation with mankind. It also contains a personal appreciation of tending a flower garden throughout the year.

George Melly
Slowing Down

George Melly is 79 nudging 80. He's still swinging and singing, flirting, working, drinking, dressing up and, for now, just playing at senility. Being quite deaf he no longer enjoys noisy parties. His days are spent being probed at St Mary's Hospital. There's an army of doctors to deal with, a cornucopia of pills to take. Slowing Down is a surprisingly cheerful, frank and funny account of it all, a record of a life lived large, packed with art, love, sex, celebrities, sharp suits, great music and extraordinary style.

Edgar Smith's funeral reception is not a sober affair, thanks to the antics of his daughter, Lorraine. Then Lorraine's dead body is found, and a murder investigation begins. Most people disapproved of Lorraine, but who actually wanted her dead? Her daughter, Donna? Nick Felling, Lorraine's estranged partner, who wanted custody of Donna? Lorraine's son Philip and his fiancee? Or her sister, who was desperate to get her hands on the money left by their father....