Knave of spades
Subtitle: the growing pains of a gardener
By: written and illustrated by Alan Titchmarsh
Edition: Large print ed.
Publisher: Windsor/Paragon
Published: 2010
Place of publication: [Bath]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 327
ISBN-13: 9781408459744; 9781408459751
Subjects: Gardeners; Television personalities; English Authors; Biography; Large type books
Description: When Alan left school at fifteen little was expected of him, but in the ancient greenhouses of the local nursery Mrs T's little lad found his spiritual home. Yorkshire would be left behind as he journeyed south to college and then to Kew Gardens, where he encountered rare plants collected by Captain Cook and a varied assortment of eccentrics in the world's most famous garden. Spells as a teacher and editor followed, until fate took a hand when he landed a job on BBC's Nationwide as gardening presenter. His childhood dream of inheriting the mantle of gardening god Percy Thrower was beginning to come true ...
Notes: Originally published: London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2009.