White Rose Content: 9 books

How did Jenny Butchart turn an ugly, disused limestone quarry into the world’s most famous private garden?  Over 100 years later Butchart Gardens still attracts almost a million visitors from around the globe, to enjoy a world created by an unrivalled green-thumb visionary. The stuff...

Words of Love. Love can be a fleeting moment of deepest joy, or the journey of a lifetime. Here's a collection of love poems from all stages of the journey, some illustrated by the author's photography and artwork. The pieces range from finding and nurturing love, creating romance, through...

An Amazing Journey! From Halifax to Victoria, clear across Canada, Dave Preston rode the rails, exploring what was once the most popular mode of transport in the country. Days and nights spent rollicking across the amazing and diverse geography of Canada were punctuated by stays at some of the country's...

The moment you have a child your world changes. What a gift! The pure joy of welcoming a new life into yours puts everything else in perspective. Parents struggle with infant feeding, teething, toilet training, first falls and injuries, the stress of school, bullying, and a myriad trials and...

All is Bright - The Funniest British Christmas Stories! Derek Bradley’s just like any other daft young lad growing up in the 1960s - unique. Through his brutally honest eyes and ears we recall what it's like to celebrate Christmas past in a small Yorkshire village. The advent calendar...

The year-end is a time to celebrate! It’s a time to relax the reins of restraint and enjoy the fruits of our labour with good old-fashioned food and drink. A 21st century Christmas often makes us all so busy we don’t think we have time to make our own festive treats, meals and drink… so we end...

The classic Godot is revisited by two luckless pilgrims camped out in the disappearing wilderness. Equal shots of humour and pathos fuel this look at rampant consumerism and a society that threatens to bulldoze everything into the ocean, for the price of creature comforts. "At last, someone...

Take three women and listen to the stories they tell here for the first time. Hear how unremarkable lives can become quite remarkable when they strip away the hair, the clothes, the makeup, the smile and reveal themselves for who they really are. Mixing their laughter with tears, each one struggles,...

Personals. It's the hardest thing you will ever have to write: a description of yourself that will sell your heart and soul, (and often, more importantly, your body) to the perfect partner. Personals follows the heartbreaking, heartwarming stories of seven people in search of friendship, affection,...