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Publications Archive
The following books may not currently be in print, but you might be able to find second-hand copies at AbeBooks, or on Amazon or of course in local bookshops.
The Great Gardens of Italy
by Monty Don & Derry Moore
This book accompanied Monty’s Italian Gardens television series, which is available on DVD.
The Home Cookbook
by Monty and Sarah Don
With more than 300 recipes, arranged by meal times (Breakfast, Elevenses, Lunch, Tea, Supper), this is a celebration of British domestic cooking as it has evolved over the centuries and still exists – especially in the countryside.
The Ivington Diaries
by Monty Don
Monty Don and his wife Sarah moved into their semi-derelict farmhouse at Ivington in 1991, and their garden is the most tangible symbol of the spectacular way in which they have since thrived.
Extraordinary Gardens of the World
This book was inspired by Monty Don’s Around the World in 80 Gardens series for BBC2.
Published by Orion
ISBN: 9780297856382 (hardback, 2009)
Around the World in 80 Gardens
This book accompanied Monty’s Around the World in 80 Gardens series for BBC2, which is also available on DVD.
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Monty Don
English author, broadcaster, horticulturist
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Biography
Monty Don O.B.E. is the UK’s leading garden writer and broadcaster. He has been making television programmes for over thirty years on a range of topics, spanning travel, craft, outdoor living and, principally, gardening. He has been lead presenter of the BBC’s Gardeners’ World since 2003 and since 2011 the programme has come from his own garden, Longmeadow, in Herefordshire. Monty has also made acclaimed prime time series such as Around the World in 80 Gardens, Monty Don’s Italian Gardens, Monty Don’s French Gardens, The Secret History of the British Garden, Monty Don’s Paradise Gardens , Monty Don’s Japanese Gardens, Monty Don’s American Gardens & three series of Big Dreams, Small Spaces.
Born in 1955, Monty grew up in Hampshire where he gardened with his family from a young age, and was educated at a variety of schools followed by Magdalene College, Cambridge. From the early 1980s, Monty and his wife Sarah set up and ran a fashion jewellery business which enjoyed considerable success. The business closed in 1990 just as Monty’s television and writing career was taking off.
A prolific horticultural journalist, Monty Don was the Observer’s gardening editor from 1994 until 2006. He now contributes a regular column for Gardeners’ World Magaz