"Helen Pilcher takes on the unenviable task of describing how our species has been on a collision course, spanning roughly 300,000 years of history, with the rest of life on Earth. It shouldn't make for good reading but, mercifully, Pilcher is both very funny and very, very clever." GILLIAN BURKE, biologist and TV presenter.
"With warm wit and glorious pace, Life Changing delivers an eloquent commentary on this, the age of post-natural history." JULES HOWARD, naturalist, science writer and author of Death on Earth.
Life Changing was short-listed for the 2020 Wainwright Prize for Writing on Global Conservation, and was The Times Science Book of the Year. Read some of the reviews; in The Times here and Science here.
"With warm wit and glorious pace, Life Changing delivers an eloquent commentary on this, the age of post-natural history." JULES HOWARD, naturalist, science writer and author of Death on Earth.
Life Changing was short-listed for the 2020 Wainwright Prize for Writing on Global Conservation, and was The Times Science Book of the Year. Read some of the reviews; in The Times here and Science here.
If you could choose one species to bring back from extinction, what would it be? From dodos to dinosaurs, woolly mammoths to Elvis Presley, in Bring Back the King, Helen ponders the options.
"Science at it funniest." SARA PASCOE, comedian.
"Her wit shines through." ROB KINGSTON, Sunday Times.
"A friendly tour of genetics and cloning, with a bit of history thrown in." BRIAN SWITEK, Wall Street Journal.
Bring Back the King was Radio 2's Fact not Fiction Book of the week.
"Science at it funniest." SARA PASCOE, comedian.
"Her wit shines through." ROB KINGSTON, Sunday Times.
"A friendly tour of genetics and cloning, with a bit of history thrown in." BRIAN SWITEK, Wall Street Journal.
Bring Back the King was Radio 2's Fact not Fiction Book of the week.
If you've ever wanted to know how long a sea otter sleeps for, how long a rhino takes to poo, or how long an anglerfish takes to have sex, this could be the book for you.
The Time Nature Keeps is packed full of pictures and infographics, all exploring the natural world through the lens of time.
You can hear me chatting about it on Radio 4's 'Inside Science' here (starts at 21.30).
The Time Nature Keeps is packed full of pictures and infographics, all exploring the natural world through the lens of time.
You can hear me chatting about it on Radio 4's 'Inside Science' here (starts at 21.30).
Whether it's the stitches that hold our clothes together or the syringes that deliver life-saving vaccines, small things really do make a big difference. Yet these modest but essential components of everyday life are often overlooked.
In Small Inventions, I reveal the unexpected stories of 50 humble innovations – from the accidental soldering of two bits of metal that created the pacemaker, to the eighteenth-century sea captain whose ingenious invention paved the way for the filming of Star Wars – and celebrate the joy of the small yet mighty. Size isn't everything, after all.
See the TEDX talk here.
In Small Inventions, I reveal the unexpected stories of 50 humble innovations – from the accidental soldering of two bits of metal that created the pacemaker, to the eighteenth-century sea captain whose ingenious invention paved the way for the filming of Star Wars – and celebrate the joy of the small yet mighty. Size isn't everything, after all.
See the TEDX talk here.
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