Napoleon

''Glorious... Scurr is one of the most gifted non-fiction writers alive'' Simon Schama, Financial Times

A revelatory portrait of Napoleon written for our own time, exploring his love of nature and the gardens that gave his revolutionary life its light and shade.

Napoleon''s gardens range from his childhood olive groves in Corsica, to Josephine''s menageries in Paris, to the walled garden of Hougoumo...