Geoffrey Grigson

Geoffrey Grigson (1905-1985) was one of the most prolific and wide-ranging authors of the twentieth century. He wrote numerous books and articles on painting, literature, travel, places, archaeology, gardens, wild flowers and the English countryside, as well as compiling many anthologies and publishing an autobiography and thirteen volumes of his own verse. After working as a journalist in London in the 1930s, when he founded and edited the influential poetry magazine New Verse, he became well-known as a broadcaster, before settling down in a Wiltshire farmhouse in 1945 to earn his living as a freelance writer, critic and reviewer.

John Lewis-Stempel is a farmer and ‘Britain’s finest living nature writer’ (The Times). His books include the Sunday Times bestsellers Woodston, The Running Hare and The Wood, and most recently he published England: A Natural History. He is the only person to have won the Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing twice, with Meadowland and Where Poppies Blow. In 2016 he was named Magazine Columnist of the Year for his column in Country Life. He farms cattle, sheep, pigs and poultry. Traditionally.