I am a writer and a Fellow of Exeter College, University of Oxford.
My books stray into many fields, including law, philosophy, natural history, anthropology, archaeology, travel, evolutionary biology and theology. Ultimately they are all attempts to answer the questions ‘Who or what are we?’, and ‘What on earth are we doing here?’.
I do a good deal of writing that would be classified as non-academic (although I don’t acknowledge any significant distinction between academic and non-academic writing). A recent example is Being a Beast, which is a New York Times Bestseller, was long-listed for the Baillie Gifford Prize (the ‘non-fiction Booker’) and the Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing, won the Deux Millions d’Amis literary prize (France), and the IgNobel prize for Biology in 2016.
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