Alex Pankhurst: 2 books

Ask a bus queue for their thoughts on contemporary art, and you’re liable to get salty answers. This irreverent, funny and thought-provoking tale is for them. When Ben Banding’s quiet estuary town holds a modern art festival, the secretively brilliant painter comes up against art world supremo Oliver...

Gardening writer Zinnia Peasmore is determined to stop her wonderful quarry garden becoming a landfill site. Her family and American niece all become involved in the hoax she hatches to save it. But unorthodox means lead to unforeseen consequences as her plan runs into trouble, and she learns some of...