Lots of people think that to be a writer you need to have an amazing writing space. Like a cabin at the end of the garden. . .

Being a writer is a solitary pursuit - there's no water-cooler moments when you work from home alone. Then. . . a knock at the door. . .

It was on Africa's plains, a place without fences, that I experienced the scariest moment of my life. . .

Read on if you like dinosaurs, sharks and wild adventures...

I've teamed up with Puffin Books, BBC Planet Earth and illustrator Emily Dove to make Blue Planet II - my first children's book.