Tom Jackson

Tom Jackson has been a science writer for 30 years. He has written more than 100 non-fiction books and contributed to many more. These include projects with Brian May, Patrick Moore, Steve Backshall, and Carol Vorderman and for major international publishers, such as Bloomsbury, Dorling Kindersley, National Geographic, Scholastic, Hachette, and the BBC. Tom has written about everything from axolotls to zoraptera, and has a particular interest in the history of ideas alongside specialisms in natural history, astronomy, and technology. Tom studied zoology at Bristol University and has had spells working in zoos, as a conservationist and an adventure travel writer. He's mucked out polar bears and fed the penguins, planted trees in Somerset, surveyed the Vietnamese jungle and rescued wildlife from drought in Africa. Writing jobs have also taken him to the Galápagos Islands, the Amazon rainforest, the coral reefs of Indonesia and the Sahara Desert. Today, Tom lives in Bristol, England.