Jonathan Bate is Foundation Professor of Environmental Humanities at Arizona State University and a Senior Research Fellow in English Literature at Oxford University, where he was formerly Provost of Worcester College. The author of twenty books, several of which have won major prizes, he is a world-renowned expert on Shakespeare, the Romantic movement and ecological approaches to the arts and humanities. Knighted by the late Queen for his services to literary scholarship. His new book is a history of the garden from Eden to the present – its place in art and literature as well as actual gardens.