Channel 4 Books

  • Equinox: The Brain

    Equinox: The Brain

    As a keen viewer of the Channel 4 science documentary series ‘Equinox’, it was a thrill to be asked to take on this book (and its sibling publication, Equinox: Space). Each chapter provides background to a particular episode of the series, with deeper explanation and further investigation that could not be presented in the programmes.…

  • Equinox: Space

    Equinox: Space

    As a keen viewer of the Channel 4 science documentary series ‘Equinox’, it was a thrill to be asked to take on this book (and its sibling publication, Equinox: The Brain). Each chapter provides background to a particular episode of the series, with deeper explanation and further investigation that could not be presented in the…

  • Baby Makers: the History of Artificial Conception

    Baby Makers: the History of Artificial Conception

    I vividly remember the moment my agent asked if I wanted to write this one. Until that time, I had written only children’s books, but this was a very different project. Commissioned to accompany a major Channel 4 series commemorating the 25th anniversary of the birth of the first ‘test tube baby’, this book was…