Andy Hamilton is an award-winning non-fiction author and all-round nice chap.

Andy's books reflect his joy of life. They include the best-selling The First Time Forager, Booze for Free; Fermenting Everything, The Perfect Pint, The Selfsufficientish Bible and his brave and thoroughly researched unique nature memoir meets popular science and self-help - New Wild Order. A book that profoundly and utterly changed his life (for the better).

Andy is currently writing acid house tunes, poetry, and he is collecting experiences in the natural world for a new book non-fiction book. He is also tinkering with a novel.

He also finds time to be a hands-on Dad to two young children and to potter about his hilltop area of Bristol drinking tea. He's also turning his small steep garden into a nature haven.