Alan Titchmarsh: Collected Memoirs: Trowel and Error, Nobbut a Lad, Knave of Spades

Alan Titchmarsh was born and brought up in Yorkshire. He is known to millions through his career as a television presenter of shows including Love Your Weekend, Love Your Garden, Ground Force, Gardeners' World, How to be a Gardener, The Alan Titchmarsh Show and British Isles a Natural History as well as his own You Tube channel: Gardening with Alan Titchmarsh. He has been a writer for more than fifty years, producing more than forty gardening books, as well as twelve novels, three volumes of memoirs and books on natural history and royalty. He was made MBE in the millennium New Year Honours list and promoted to CBE in 2026 for services to horticulture and to charity. He holds the Victoria Medal of Honour, the Royal Horticultural Society's highest award and has been a Deputy Lieutenant of Hampshire and High Sheriff of the Isle of Wight.