This week, Ysenda Maxtone Graham on the women who fought their way into horticulture; and Mary Beard leads us down a Homeric rabbit hole.
'An almost impossible thing: the radical lives of Britain's pioneering women gardeners', by Fiona Davison
'Homer and his Iliad', by Robin Lane Fox
'The Iliad', translated by Emily Wilson
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