Book description
When Alan left school at fifteen little was expected of him. An 'O'
level in art is not the most obvious passport to success, but in the
ancient greenhouses of the local nursery Mrs T's little lad found his
spiritual home, learning his trade and the strange ways of human nature.
But the comfort and familiarity of his home in the Yorkshire Dales
would soon 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 their gardening presenter. His
childhood dream of inheriting the mantle of gardening god Percy
Thrower was beginning to come true...
From the first faltering steps in radio and television, to a career
in broadcasting and writing, Knave of Spades is a wonderfully
warm and self-deprecatingly honest memoir. Alan Titchmarsh shows us
just why he has become not only our favourite gardener, but a popular
writer and broadcaster too.
