Bringing an authoritative voice to the literature of herb gardening, Gardner combines an enlightened design sensibility and contagious enthusiasm for the ornamental qualities of flowering herbs. Expect to find important cultural advice necessary to growing healthy blooming plants, along with fascinating plant lore, descriptions of beguiling plant combinations, and detailed propagation advice.

Growing Op is a provocative dramatic comedy about a teenage boy coming of age in a suburban marijuana-growing operation. Sheltered all his life, and home-schooled by loving parents who are also committed neo-hippie criminals, Quinn Dawson yearns to experience the normalcy of the suburban world around him. When his new neighbour Crystal turns out to be the blonde girl of his dreams, Quinn is motivated to rebel against his parents and attend high-school for the first time...

Growing Op is a provocative dramatic comedy about a teenage boy coming of age in a suburban marijuana-growing operation. Sheltered all his life, and home-schooled by loving parents who are also committed neo-hippie criminals, Quinn Dawson yearns to experience the normalcy of the suburban world around him. When his new neighbour Crystal turns out to be the blonde girl of his dreams, Quinn is motivated to rebel against his parents and attend high-school for the first time. But the more Quinn pulls away from his parents modest utopia, the more he discovers that the real jungle is not in his living room, but in the distorted values of the suburban status quo. When truths are finally told and counter-cultures collide, everybody does get stoned.

I met Rebecca Martin about ten years ago, sitting upstairs at a club with guitarist John Scofield and bass player Larry Grenadier. She and Larry were just married, or about to be...they couldn t stop looking at each other. No one mentioned that Rebecca was a singer. They didn t have to. It wasn t just the soft lilt of her voice, but the way she held onto words for an extra beat and then let them tumble out in a rush of soft exclamations. Even when she was in the background, it was hard not to see her as being centerstage.

What do you do when your child is gifted and their academic ability has overtaken yours* In a lot of ways 13-year-old Cameron Thompson is a normal teenage boy - obsessed with computer games, sporting the first hints of a moustache and a newfound interest in girls. But he is also a maths genius who is currently doing an Open University degree in applied mathematics and it is this ability that has singled him out. That, and an intense social awkwardness his parents put down to his Aspergers Syndrome. Can Cameron balance the need to remain the genius he has always been - and therefore different - with the classic teenage longing to be accepted?