Tom Jackson

I've been a non-fiction writer (plus a bit of journalism, project management if you're interested) for 20 years. I've written 80 books or so and contributed to hundreds more. I get to write about a wide range of subjects, everything from axolotls to zoroastrianism. However, my specialties are natural history, technology and all things scientific. I've worked with Brian May, Patrick Moore and Carol Vordermen; (in short all the greats).

I spend my days finding fun ways of communicating these kinds of facts, new and old, to all age groups and reading abilities. I live in Bristol, England, with my wife and three children. I studied zoology at Bristol University and have had spells working at the zoos in Jersey and Surrey. I used to be something of a conservationist, which included planting trees in Somerset, surveying Vietnamese jungle and rescuing wildlife from drought-ridden Zimbabwe. Writing jobs have also taken me to the Galápagos Islands, the Amazon rain forest, the coral reefs of Indonesia and the Sahara Desert. Nowadays, I can be found mainly in the attic.