Richard Mabey in conversation with Stephen Hopper Director of Kew Gardens
On 1st December there is a rare
opportunity to hear bestselling author Richard Mabey in conversation with the Director
of Kew, Professor Stephen Hopper.
Heralded by the Times as ‘Britain’s greatest living nature writer’ and acclaimed
by Andrew Motion, he will be discussing Weeds, his new book. Beautifully illustrated
and elegantly wrought, this landmark journey through the cultural history of weeds
urges us to rethink the attitudes we have to such an enormous section of the plant
world. The event promises to be entertaining and thought provoking. Nature lovers
and horticulturists will not want to miss this.
‘A treat’ (Financial Times)
‘Enraptured, visionary, witty and erudite’ and ‘a fascinating read’ (the Daily Telegraph)
‘[Mabey] is the steward of a pastoral tradition in which highly personal responses
to landscape are matched by expert environmental concerns; his ideas have become
standard with no loss of urgency.’ (Andrew Motion, the Guardian)
Richard Mabey is the best-selling author of Flora Britannica and has been shortlisted
for the Whitbread Award. A regular commentator on the radio and in the national
press, he is also a Director of the arts and conservation charity Common Ground
and Vice-President of the Open Spaces Society. He was appointed to the Civil List
in 2008 for services to literature.