Ms Helena Attlee

Writer, lecturer, tutor, Helena Attlee has been an Italian garden expert for over thirty years. After publishing several books on the subject, she focussed on the story of citrus in Italy and wrote The Land Where Lemons Grow, a bestseller that was also broadcast as Radio 4’s Book of the Week. Her latest book, due for publication in 2026, is about Mount Etna in Sicily. She is a Consultant Fellow of the Royal Literary Fund, leads academic writing workshops for PhD students all over Britain, and teaches creative writing both here and abroad.