Nick Spain

‘How boring it is to be certain!’ says Nick, who likes his prose to have a puzzling element. ‘It took quite a bit of time to not shift my feet when someone asks what I do,’ the writer/designer reveals, but he now realises he need only make sense to himself. The runner-up of our first writing competition returned for the July 2026 issue with a Room for Debate that challenges the horticulturally hip aversion to topiary