Lesley Chamberlain

Is What I See A Flower?

Botany: A Study of Pure Curiosity

By Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Kate Ottevanger (trans.)

Charles Elliot

Ways of Seeding

The Cabaret of Plants: Botany and the Imagination

By Richard Mabey

Christopher Ondaatje

You Give Me Fever

The Miraculous Fever-Tree: Malaria, Medicine and the Cure that Changed the World

By Fiammetta Rocco

Miranda Seymour

Passion For Cultivation

The Gardener's Year Book

By Karel Capek, Josef Capek (ill), Geoffrey Newsome (trans)

Chandak Sengoopta

Radical Cures

The Herbalist: Nicholas Culpeper, Rebel Physician

By Benjamin Woolley

Patrick Wilcken

Three of a Kind

Naturalists in Paradise: Wallace, Bates and Spruce in the Amazon

By John Hemming

Miranda Seymour

Herbal History

A Little History of British Gardening

By Jenny Uglow

Tales of the Rose Tree: Ravishing Rhododendrons and Their Travels Around the World

By Jane Brown

Andrew Taylor

The Botanical Buccaneer

A Pirate of Exquisite Mind: The Life of William Dampier

By Diana and Michael Preston

Christopher Ondaatje

The Potent Pod

Vanilla: Travels in Search of the Luscious Substance

By Tim Ecott

Julia Keay

The World Was Their Nursery

Flower Hunters

By Mary and John Gribbin

Jonathan Keates

Citron Impressé

The Land Where Lemons Grow: The Story of Italy and Its Citrus Fruit

By Helena Attlee

Charles Elliott

Beautiful Monster

The Flower of Empire: An Amazonian Water Lily, the Quest to Make It Bloom, and the World It Created

By Tatiana Holway