No Time to Run

By Barry Greenfinger

Highly Irregular podcast's hit serialised audiobook, now available to read at your lesiure!

No Time to Run is the debut spy-thriller novel from TV's celebrity gardener Barry Greenfinger. Chock-full of tension, terror, trepidation and trowels, is this the worst book ever written?

'After Monty Don announced he would be writing a spy thriller novel, Greenfinger felt compelled to outdo him and began writing his own. And although Don’s announcement turned out to be merely an April Fool’s joke, Barry Greenfinger never leaves a job unfinished. He hopes you enjoy his debut novel, No Time To Run, and learn a thing or two about trowels along the way.'

This book was adapted to support a fundraising effort for UK charity Greenfingers, who work to provide accessible green spaces for children in hospice care. If (or, indeed, ifn't) you enjoy it, please consider making a donation to this excellent cause.

You can also piece together the audio version of this novel from episodes 1-4 of Highly Irregular: the Podcast with No Right Angle.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Barry Greenfinger
• Release date: May 10, 2021
• ISBN: 9781005136543

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About the Author

Originally born in Royal Tunbridge Wells, Barry Greenfinger was raised in Royal Tunbridge Wells by his mother Sandra and her husband George, who was also Barry’s father. Keen gardeners themselves, Barry’s parents nurtured his talent from a young age, and he was soon noticed at county level. He was quickly gardening well above his level, and aged just 13, was already captaining the Kent under-15 gardening team.

Just a few years later, he got the national call-up, left his school in Tunbridge Wells and made the long journey to Maidstone, where he took up residence at the British College of Horticulture, Gardening and Landscape Design. It was here the peerless prodigy finally found himself on an equal footing with his classmates, rubbing shoulders with other up-and-coming prospects in the gardening world like Alan Titchmarsh and Monty Don. Although Greenfinger was initially good friends with Monty as they studied together at the BCHGLD, things were said to have turned sour when a plagiarism row erupted between them. Greenfinger alleged that Don had procured a clipping from his Geranium dissertation bed, in