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The story of four middle-age mothers on a night away from their kids, as they get together to watch the 2008 US election. A new play on race and political correctness by Sarah Rutherford premiering at the Park Theatre.

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Across the world hundreds of botanic gardens combine scientific research, conservation and beauty with public access, with Kew Gardens alone attracting around one million visitors a year. The author explains the gardens' design and architecture, the personalities and institutions associated with them, and their role in research and conservation.

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Though Georgian garden buildings often seem monuments to rich mens' folly and whimsy, in fact they always had a purpose, whether functional or ornamental. This title presents the history of Georgian garden buildings and explains the purpose and form of individual types in the context of the English landscape garden.

Explores the winding paths and meticulously shaped hedges, the gazebos and gateways, the formal terraces and the billowing border plantings that characterised the Arts and Crafts garden, and directs readers and gardeners to where they can visit and be inspired by these beautiful works of art.

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The Girl who Fellis a poignant and darkly funny play about loss, guilt and Snapchat from the provocative and entertaining Sarah Rutherford

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Dreaded and reviled by many, the nineteenth-century buildings provide a unique window on how the Victorians housed and treated the mentally ill. This book offers an insight into their history, their often imposing architecture and their later decline.

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Planned with the same passion as a landscape garden, filled with monuments that represented the start of the art of craftsmanship in stone, and equipped with expensively constructed and fashionably designed gatehouses and chapels of rest, the Victorian cemetery was a matter of real civic pride. This illustrated study tells its fascinating story.

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A fascinating look at the life, influences, techniques and works of 18th-century landscape gardener Lancelot 'Capability' Brown. His transformation of unpromising countryside into beautiful parks changed the face of a nation and created a landscape style which for many of us defines the English countryside.

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Garden Cities: the phrase is redolent of Arts and Crafts values and nineteenth-century utopianism.