Alan Titchmarsh

Alan Fred Titchmarsh is an English gardener and broadcaster. After working as a professional gardener and a gardening journalist, he became a writer, and a radio and television presenter.

His first novel was Mr MacGregor in 1998. Since then, he has written over a dozen novels. Nobbut A Lad: A Yorkshire Childhood (2006) was an autobiographical work, followed by Trowel & Error (2002) and When I Was A Nipper (2010).

Titchmarsh has also published a series of gardening guides, the How to Garden series (2009).