Simon Parkin
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The Forbidden Garden: The Botanists of Besieged Leningrad and Their Impossible Choice
$20.00 Add to cartNamed a Best Book of the Year by Scientific American and The Economist
The riveting, untold true story of the botanists at the world’s first seed bank who made “the mad, heroic decision during the sie- Author: Parkin, Simon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 1668007673
- Language: English
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The Island of Extraordinary Captives: A Painter, a Poet, an Heiress, and a Spy in a World War II British Internment Camp
$30.00 Read moreThe “riveting…truly shocking” (The New York Times Book Review) story of a Jewish orphan who fled Nazi Germany for London, only to be arrested and sent to a British internment camp for suspected fore… [more below]
- Author: Parkin, Simon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1982178523
- Language: English
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The Forbidden Garden: The Botanists of Besieged Leningrad and Their Impossible Choice
$30.00 Add to cartFrom the award-winning author of The Island of Extraordinary Captives, the riveting, untold true story of the botanists at the world’s first seed bank who faced an impossible choice during the Siege o… [more below]
- Author: Parkin, Simon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1668007665
- Language: English
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A Game of Birds and Wolves: The Ingenious Young Women Whose Secret Board Game Helped Win World War II
$18.99 Add to cartAs heard on the New Yorker Radio Hour: The triumphant and “engaging history” (The New Yorker) of the young women who devised a winning strategy that defeated Nazi U-boats and delivered a decisive vict… [more below]
- Author: Parkin, Simon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 23 2021
- ISBN10: 031649206X
- Language: English
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The Island of Extraordinary Captives: A Painter, a Poet, an Heiress, and a Spy in a World War II British Internment Camp
$20.00 Add to cartThe “riveting…truly shocking” (The New York Times Book Review) story of a Jewish orphan who fled Nazi Germany for London, only to be arrested and sent to a British internment camp for suspected fore… [more below]
- Author: Parkin, Simon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 31 2023
- ISBN10: 1982178531
- Language: English
