ORCHID OUTLAW (HB)

Obsessed by orchids since childhood, the author spent years travelling to far-flung jungles to see them in the wild. A chance encounter set him off on a journey of discovery into the world of Britain's fifty-one native species – many of which are facing extinction. Determined to act before it was too late, he broke into building sites in the dead of night to rescue threatened plants and propagate them in his own back yard. But that put him on the wrong side of the law…