GILBERT WHITE

Richard Mabey has been described by The Times as ‘Britain’s foremost nature writer’. He is the author of Flora Britannica, which was the winner of the British Book Awards Illustrated Book of the Year, and the Botanical Society of the British Isles’ President’s Award. His biography of Gilbert White won the Whitbread Biography Award in 1986, and his memoir Nature Cure was shortlisted for the same prize in 2005.

Richard Mabey’s other books include Food for Free, The Common Ground, Whistling in the Dark (a personal study of the nightingale), The Frampton Flora and Home Country. He is a regular broadcaster and contributor to The Times, Guardian and Granta.

After spending most of his life in the Chilterns, he now lives in Norfolk, where he is President of the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists’ Society.