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The Marchese Guido Mina di Sospiro celebrated the publication of his book The Story of Yew at the Chelsea Physic Garden, where he happily chatted to friends under the boughs of the garden’s very own yew tree.

Marchese Guido Mina di Sospiro, author of The Story of Yew

Mr and Mrs Robert Hempleman with Mrs Jan Gowrie-Smith in the Physic Garden

Sue Wood joins Mr and Mrs Edward Goldsmith at the book launch

In my sixty years as a publisher and literary agent, I have known many distinguished writers working in many genres of literature. One of the most wholly original is Guido Mina di Sospiro. To say that he is traditional in his approach to the writing of fiction is partially true, in that he is a master of narrative and characterization. To say that he is experimental is also partially true, in that he can produce remarkable flights of fancy which transport the reader from the commonplace to the extraordinary, literally out of the world as we know it.

–Christopher Sinclair-Stevenson