Peter Marren is a writer and journalist on wildlife and countryside matters. He has also worked as an editor and publicist in a government nature conservation agency. His books included Rainbow Dust: Three Centuries of Delight in British Butterflies, Bugs Britannica (with Richard Mabey), The New Naturalists, which won the Society for the History of Natural History’s Thackray Medal, and Britain’s Rare Flowers, which won the Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland’s Presidents’ Prize. He also won a Leverhulme Research Fellowship for his work on Bugs Britannica.