Richard Mabey

Richard Mabey is the author of over forty pioneering and prize-winning books on the relationships between nature and culture, including Food for Free, Flora Britannica, The Unofficial Countryside, Whistling in the Dark: In Pursuit of the Nightingale, and The Cabaret of Plants. His biography of Gilbert White won the Whitbread Biography Prize. Active in conservation, he has sat on advisory councils to the British government and is a regular contributor to the British press and BBC radio and television. He was awarded a Civil List Pension for services to literature and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He lives with his partner Polly in Norfolk, where they explore the county’s wetlands in their electric boat. 
 

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