On the day of the Winter Solstice, Sacha Pfeiffer started her interview of me about my book by playing an actual recording of Rosemary Verey’s voice talking about The Garden in Winter, one of her most influential books. Then she went on to ask me about the book and my experience working for Rosemary Verey …
This afternoon at 12:48 PM. Here and Now will broadcast Sacha Pfeiffer’s interview of me on Here and Now on the Boston NPR station WBUR and its affiliates. You can hear it online at that time although if you listen on the radio, it may be broadcast a bit later.
Despite the press of the Christmas crazies, a large audience took time out to come to The New York Horticultural Society, affectionately known as The Hort, on West 37th Street to hear my talk about my book. Many of the people in the audience had been to Barnsley House and some had met Rosemary. Others …
Elaine Showalter has named my book one of her picks for Books of the Year in the TLS. It reads as follows. Pat Barker’s Toby’s Room is the most emotionally powerful and aesthetically daring of her searing novels about World War I and British culture. Barker follows the group of Slade art students she wrote …
The Saturday, December 1, 2012 issue of The Times came out in London with Stephen Anderton’s list of the best gardening books of the year. My book was listed second! Here is the text. The best gardening books of the year Stephen Anderton Published at 12:01AM, December 1 2012 Joy Larkom’s Just Vegetating (Frances Lincoln, …
I had a wonderful afternoon at the Queens Botanical Garden where I spoke about my book in the impressive new Visitors and Administration Building, beautifully designed with a green roof with evironmentally sensitive systems. Here I am after the talk with some of the Garden’s young interns who are students at a public High School. …
My dear friends, Joan and Dale Coenen, hosted a lovely book party for me in their elegant Park Avenue apartment on Thursday November 3. It was a multi-purpose celebration — a belated birthday party for Joan since she, my husband Charlie and I are all “Libras” born in October, a bon voyage toast to them …
Ken Druse interviewed me about my Rosemary Verey biography on his radio program Real Dirt. It was broadcast on October 19, 2012 while I was away giving book talks in England, having been taped in advance. You can listen to it since Ken has it on his website as a podcast. Just click on Listen …
We had a marvelous event at The Garden Museum in London on the evening of October 30, 2012. A great turn out and lively, engaged audience. Jerry Harpur and Andrew Lawson pictured here to the left were there to enjoy their own magnificent photography which illustrated my talk and made it so special. It was …
I had three book talks in England in October and just before I arrived, the book was featured in Country Life in the October 10, 2012 issue. Inside the magazine, six pages of extracts from the book were printed, along with some of the book’s photographs. Wonderful timing that this came out just before my …