Results for 'helen scales'

1. Christine Webb

The Arrogant Ape

A groundbreaking and inspiring call for a radical shift in how we understand our own species - and all those we share our planet with

1. Christine Webb

The Arrogant Ape

A groundbreaking and inspiring call for a radical shift in how we understand our own species - and all those we share our planet with

1. Helen Scales

What the Wild Sea Can Be

An impassioned examination of the existential threats to the world's ocean and cautious optimism for the abundant life within it.

1. Helen Scales

The Deep Dark Ocean

Dr Helen Scales is a marine biologist, writer and broadcaster who divides her time between the UK and France. In 2025, her books for adults, What the Wild Sea Can Be, was shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction and the Wainwright Prize for Conservation Writing and longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction. Her children’s books include the global bestseller What a Shell Can Tell and Scientists in the Wild: Antarctica, which was shortlisted for the Children’s Travel Book of the Year and The Week Junior Children’s STEM Book of the Year. She writes regularly for the Guardian, teaches at Cambridge University and is a storytelling ambassador for the Save Our Seas Foundation. @drhelenscales Ana Miminoshvili is an award-winning illustrator and designer from Tbilisi, Georgia. Ana won the Communication Arts Excellence Award 2023 and the YOUNG GUNS 22 Creative Choice Award in 2022. Her clients include The New York Times, The New Yorker, GQ and The Washington Post, among others. @anano__

1. Stephen Ellcock

Ark

Renowned image alchemist Stephen Ellcock is a London-based curator, writer, researcher and online collector of images who has spent the last decade creating an ever-expanding virtual museum of art that is open to all via social media. His ongoing attempt at creating the ultimate social media ‘Cabinet of Curiosities’ has so far attracted 650,000 followers worldwide. He is also the author of Elements, Underworlds, The Cosmic Dance, All Good Things, The Book of Change, England On Fire, with text by Mat Osman, and Jeux de Mains and Clin D’Ooeil, collaborations with Cécile Poimboeuf-Koizumi. Robert Macfarlane is Professor of Literature and the Environmental Humanities at the Faculty of English at the University of Cambridge, and a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. His writing about landscape, nature, memory, language and travel has won many prizes internationally, including the E. M. Forster Award for Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2017. His books have been widely adapted for TV, film and radio and he has collaborated with artists, film-makers, photographers and musicians, including Johnny Flynn and Jackie Morris. Sarah Perry is the author of the bestselling novels Melmoth, The Essex Serpent and After Me Comes the Flood, and non-fiction title, Essex Girls. The Essex Serpent was awarded Waterstones Book of the Year and the British Book Awards Book of the Year and, in 2022, was adapted for Apple TV+. She is Chancellor of the University of Essex and a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Harriet Rix is a tree science consultant and author of The Genius of Trees: How Trees Mastered the Elements and Shaped the World. Harriet has worked at the Tree Council and as secretary of Hedgelink, the national advisory board on hedgerows. Her writing and photography have been published in the Financial Times, London Review of Books and Times Literary Supplement. Helen Scales is a marine biologist, broadcaster and author of many books, including The Shell Spotter’s Guide, What the Wild Sea Can Be and Spirals in Time, as well as several titles for children, such as Shells… and What They Hide Inside and Oceanopedia. She writes regularly for the Guardian and National Geographic, and is a storytelling ambassador for the Save Our Seas Foundation. Stephen Moss is one of Britain’s leading nature writers and broadcasters. He was the original producer of the BAFTA award-winning Springwatch. His bestselling books include a series of ‘bird biographies’ and Ten Birds that Changed the World. A lifelong naturalist, Stephen has travelled to all seven of the world’s continents to watch wildlife.

1. Helen Scales

Great Barrier Reef