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  • The Brother Gardeners. Botany, Empire and the Birth of an Obsession

    UK paperback February 2009

    The Brother Gardeners tells the story of the six men who created the craze for botany and gardening which overtook the public imagination in late 18th Britain. More info.

    Longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction

    US edition 30 March 2009

    This Other Eden Seven Great Gardens and Three Hundred Years of English History

    The history of England told through the stories of the making of seven gardens.

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ANDREA WULF

  • I trained as a design historian
    at the Royal College of Art in London and am now a full-time writer.

    I’m the author of two books and have written for the Sunday Times, Financial Times, The Garden and the Architects’ Journal. I regularly write reviews for The Guardian, Times Literary Supplement and the Mail on Sunday. I also work as a creative writer for a new botanic garden in Singapore (Gardens by the Bay / Land Design Studio). contact me: aw (at) andreawulf.com