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A lifelong fascination with nature, and with the ways in which we relate to it, has informed much of my writing, including a newspaper column on urban wildlife that has run for over 25 years. This interest, and a belief in the importance of attentiveness, runs through all my books including 'The Green London Way', 'Ghost Trees', long-listed for both the Wainwright Prize and the Folio Prize, and, most recently 'The Missing Musk', an investigation into six separate mysteries of the natural world. As an occasional presenter on both TV and radio my most recent work has included the BBC Radio 4 programmes ‘The Sussuration of Trees’ and ‘The Passion in Plants’. Outside of writing I have enjoyed a fascinating and varied career including stand-up comedian, community worker, running a residential field studies centre and serving as Director of Sustainability at a London local authority. Between all this, my extensive travels have included walking glaciers in Kashmir and undertaking a solo journey by mule down the Dinder River in the Sudan.
As a long-standing campaigner for urban open spaces and for inner city conservation, I am also patron of The Garden Classroom, a charity promoting environmental and outdoor education in inner city London, which is where I live with my family, Ash the greyhound and a peripatetic tortoise.
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