Jackie Bennett writes about gardens, wildlife and natural history. Her books include Wild About the Garden (1998, Channel 4), The Writer's Garden (Frances Lincoln, 2014) and Shakespeare's Garden (Frances Lincoln, 2016) which was a finalist for the Garden Media Guild's Inspirational Book of the Year. Jackie appears at the Cheltenham Literary Festival, and Write on Kew, and has contributed to various radio programmes and to BBC television's Countryfile.