About the Author

BILL TURNBULL is the award-winning longtime co-host of BBC Breakfast, Britain's most-watched morning TV show. A career journalist, he has reported from more than 30 countries, and for four years was the BBC News foreign correspondent in Washington, DC. He is President of the Institute of Northern Ireland Beekeepers and a public ambassador for the British Beekeepers' Association.

Reviews

For a news reporter, Bill Turnbull is a pretty funny guy. It's a good thing, too, because his new book, Confessions of a Bad Beekeeper, demonstrates just how important a ready sense of humor--and the ability to laugh at oneself--is to the amateur apiarist. Turnbull comes across as affable and amused as he relates his initiation into the world of apiculture, and though much of what he shares are his own personal foibles and misadventures, there's a lot to be learned here. . . . Like front yard gardening, backyard beekeeping is on the rise, and Confessions of a Bad Beekeeper is a honey-sweet introduction to what might otherwise be an intimidating pursuit.-- "Mother Nature Network"

In a sea of beekeeping books that read like textbooks, it was an absolute delight to discover Confessions of a Bad Beekeeper. Bill Turnbull presents us with a delightful and amusing book on the basics of beekeeping. Through Turnbull's self-effacing humor and personal anecdotes, readers will learn a lot about bees--and a thing or two about life itself.--Howland Blackiston, author of Beekeeping for Dummies

Turnbull, the longtime cohost of England's answer to The Today Show, takes up beekeeping on a whim and brings us along on his apiarian adventures. His genial and comedic tone will deliver readers through technical jargon and beekeeping history. The book's real appeal will be to those who already think backyard bees are a honey--excuse the pun--of an idea and who will comb the book for the myriad details of use to other amateur beekeepers.-- "Library Journal"