Botanical Curses and Poisons: The Shadow Lives of Plants

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At a fundamental level, we are all sustained by plants, either from the oxygen they supply or from the food they can provide or by using them to build shelters. Each entry starts with an excerpt from poetry or literature that references the plant, and most also include a beautiful and delicate ink drawing of what it looks like.

Botanical Gothic Books Plants with a Dark Side: 6 Must-Read Botanical Gothic Books

I don't read a lot of Non-Fiction, and there is always an unknown around how accessible the writing is going to be. Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland In both history and fiction, some of the most dramatic, notorious deaths have been through poisonings. If you drink much from a bottle marked ‘poison’, it is almost certain to disagree with you, sooner or later. From classic novels to modern bestsellers, the botanical gothic genre has produced some of the most intriguing and unsettling works of fiction. The accessible prose and the subject matter combined to create a book I both couldn’t put down and couldn’t stop thinking about.Are you after a non fiction book that's not dry and can weave the tales of Socrates, the Salem witch trials, and the 2018 Russian spy poisoning through a book of cool poisonous plants?

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They have developed sophisticated defences to stop them from disappearing down the gullet of a herbivore.While by no means an exhaustive list, with these books, you’ll be ready to plant your own gothic garden in no time.