Carl Gorham – författare

"Funny and beautiful - and I hate gardening" DAVID BADDIEL"An amazing book" ALISON STEADMAN"Honest and funny and so very timely" FAY RIPLEYWhen TV comedy writer Carl Gorham moved out of London to the country with his wife and young daughter in 2005, he swopped a small, terraced cottage with a thirty-foot garden for a large, detached house in Norfolkwith three acres. An extraordinary fifteen years followed, a roller coaster ride of extraordinary highs and lows - bereavement, recovery, prosperity, unemployment, illness, triumph, struggle and happiness.My Life in a Garden describes that emotional, dramatic and comic period, a story told through the changing relationship between the author and his garden. How they were enemies, then friends. How he hated it, how he missed it. How he drew strength and support and understanding from it. How at times it seemed as if it was rebelling against him and trying to teach him something about his own stubbornness.My Life in a Garden is a book for the average, frustrated but dogged gardener; a story about the thousand and one small frustrations that confront an individual trying to master his environment; a tale to be enjoyed by anyone who has ever failed to conquer bind weed, or despaired at the manic growth of bamboo or wondered why all animals seem to do is just poo everywhere.It's a book for our times, when we are seeking more than ever to understand our place inthe natural world and by extension, our relationship with the rest of humanity.

Eric Feeble is 40, a single parent, and works in the Data department at Power Enterprises. His expertise in the field of stress management is very much rooted in personal experience (such as coping with an underachieving son and an allergy-ridden daughter, sharing a house with a criminally-inclined au pair and having an office next to the gentlemen''s lavatory). His stress management guide deals with the real problems of today: having to boast about your child when he''s self-evidently talentless and ugly, having to listen to bagpipes, having to do Daniel Deronda at charades and having to watch Keanu Reeves act. This guide takes a critical look at the causes of stress and at current therapies, assessing their usefulness from a layperson''s point of view (ie, it''s not just another pile of pants written by an American called Dwight Freem). Performed by Mark Heap, with Morwenna Banks and Geoffrey McGivern.