Title: Machiavelli's lawn : the great writers' garden companion /
Authors: Crick, Mark.
Publisher: Granta,
Year: 2011
Subjects: Parodies
Abstract: "12 authors offer their top tips on gardening... Inspired, botanically-accurate, and utterly hilarious, "Machiavelli's Lawn" will appeal to green-fingered book lovers everywhere."--Publisher description.
Contents: Introduction with Niccolò Machiavelli -- Planting a hanging basket with Raymond Carver -- Growing potatoes with Bertolt Brecht -- Dividing bamboo with Isabel Allende -- On the art of mowing with Niccolò Machiavelli -- Planting a fruit tree with Henrik Ibsen -- Removing a sucker with Bret Easton Ellis -- Burying bulbs in autumn with Sylvia Plath -- Weeding by hand with Émile Zola -- Caring for heather with Alan Bennett -- Propagating from a vine with Mary Shelley -- Repotting a house plant with Martin Amis -- How to prune the rose with Pablo Neruda.