The remarkable story of a brilliant research scientist and key member of a Nobel Prize-winning team who moved on to recreate, with her husband Jim, the fabled Orient Express train, played a major role in the creation of a £3 billion five-star hotel company, and built the Shirley Sherwood Collection of Contemporary Botanical Art, the biggest and most important in the world.
Shirley Sherwood Book order (chronological)




Pullmans of the Venice Simplon Orient-Express
- 94 pages
- 4 hours of reading
Venice Simplon Orient-Express
- 160 pages
- 6 hours of reading
Traces the history of luxury train travel in Europe.