Karen Lowe: 9 books

The antique quilt was exquisitely embroidered with flowers and leaves. A labour of love, Bronwen thought. Until she discovered a darker purpose to the quilt's design.    A Patchwork of Poison introduces textile artist, Bronwen Jones, working on her art quilts for an upcoming exhibition...

When garden designer Fern Green escapes London and her abusive boyfriend to set up her new business in the remote South Shropshire hills, she believes she has found peace and safety at last - until she finds the body of her first client, wealthy herbalist Joshua Hamble, dead in his physic garden....

'Every quilt tells a story', but textile artist Bronwen Jones soon discovers that not all the stories are happy ones. As the new Quilter in Residence in the small mid-Wales town of Llannon, she seeks out the area's quilting heritage, but in the process finds herself enmeshed in a modern mystery. Is...

'There have never been children at Plas Graig'. None that lived, Fern thought. When the body of a newborn baby is found in the long-neglected garden of Plas Graig, garden designer Fern Green discovers that the secrets of the past still haunt the living. Now a girl has been murdered in nearby...

Have you ever wondered how to realize your dreams? We are all created to dream, but we do not always pursue them. How long have you had your dream - a year, 5 years, or 45 years? What is stopping you from going after your dream – time, family or money? There is always a perceived excuse...

Coup de foudre pour un confrère, de Fiona Lowe En posant le pied sur le sol aride de Bundallagong, Poppy n’en revient toujours pas. Elle qui était sur le point d’obtenir le poste de chirurgien en chef du Perth City, pour lequel elle a fait tant de sacrifices, voilà qu’elle se retrouve...

The world has been witnessing a long unfolding process of urbanization that not only has altered the structural basis of society in terms of political economy, but has also symbolically relegated rural people and life to a secondary or deviant status through an ideology of urbanormativity. Both structural...

The public is bombarded daily with reports about risk factors, many conflicting with each other, others accepted as "scientific truth" for awhile, then scientifically disproved, yet others questionable that later prove to be true. Physicians are faced with trying to make sense of those conflicting...

Reimagining Rural: Urbanormative Portrayals of Rural Life examines the ways in which rural people and places are being portrayed by popular television, reality television, film, literature, and news media in the United States. It is also an examination of the social processes that reinforce urbanormative...