Hello! I’m a zoologist-turned-author living in Oxford, and I write about animal behaviour, nature and the human-animal relationship. I have a DPhil on crow problem-solving from Oxford University, and subsequent postdoctoral research on the history of ornithology resulted in my first (coauthored) book, Ten Thousand Birds.

I left academia to focus on writing, and I like nothing more than immersing myself into the scientific literature and working out how best to translate it for non-experts. My ethos is to tell stories that combine scientific validity with humour and plenty of fascinating facts.

I also take an inordinately large number of mediocre nature photos, usually while stomping around my local patch in Oxford.