Richard Mabey

Richard Mabey is the author of more than thirty books, including the bestselling plant bible Flora Britannica, Food for Free, Turned Out Nice Again, Weeds, Beechcombings, Turning the Boat for Home, the biography Gilbert White, and Nature Cure, which was shortlisted for the UK’s Whitbread, Ondaatje, and Ackerley awards. A regular commentator in the British press, he was elected a Fellow in the Royal Society of Literature in 2012.

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