Richard Mabey is one of the country’s most distinguished nature writers. He had just finished his award-winning Flora Britannica when he fell into deep depression, moving from the Chilterns to the flat wet lands of East Anglia where he slowly made a recovery and wrote his new book, the highly acclaimed Nature Cure. This memoir, short-listed for three major literary awards, describes how reconnecting with the wild helped him break free from debilitating depression. Other works include Gilbert White, which won the Whitbread Biography Award, and most recently, Beechcombings. He writes for the Independent, the Guardian, the Times and Granta, and contributes frequently to BBC radio, and has previously worked as Senior Editor at Penguin Books and as a lecturer in Social Studies.
He has been awarded honorary doctorates by St Andrews and Essex universities for his contributions to nature writing. He is Vice-President of the Open Spaces Society and Patron of the John Clare Society. He currently lives in Norfolk, in the Waveney Valley.

More information:

Philip Marsden for the Times on Nature Cure.

A feature interview for the Ashden directory.