Stefan Buczacki is one of the most experienced non-fiction authors in the country and as well as contributing to practically every major national newspaper and magazine, he has written over sixty books, including several standard works of reference. He also has many television credits and spent twelve unbroken years as panellist and Chairman on Radio 4's 'Gardeners' Question Time'. He was educated at the Universities of Southampton (First Class Honours in Botany) and Oxford (Doctorate in Forestry) and built up a distinguished academic research record before leaving in 1984 to pursue a freelance career. Stefan has received numerous academic awards and honorary degrees as well as the Veitch Memorial Medal in Gold of the Royal Horticultural Society and in 2013 the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Garden Media Guild. Over the past twenty years he has also established a reputation as an authority on twentieth century British socio-political history and in addition to his acclaimed Churchill studies he has recently published a biography of Venetia Stanley, the intimate confidante of H.H. Asquith.