Charles quest-ritson biography
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Charles quest-ritson biography
The place you’ll find the world’s best roses — and it’s nowhere near Britain
Charles Quest-Ritson is man who literally wrote the book on roses — several of them, actually — but he'll openly concede that his best efforts in Hampshire are as nothing compared to the best Australia has to offer.
Twenty years ago, I wrote two rather hefty books about roses.
Both were well reviewed and both won international prizes. One of them was translated into seven languages and — rather more importantly for an author — still earns welcome royalties.
The international editions were pre-sold at the Frankfurt Book Fair, which meant that I had to include roses in all the markets where the book would be published.
Rose lovers are famously nationalistic — it is difficult to persuade Frenchmen that some of the best roses are bred by Englishmen — and so, with the backing of a generous advance, I set off to study and write about roses all over the world.
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