Helen Scales

Dr Helen Scales is an acclaimed marine biologist, writer, and broadcaster. She writes books for adults and children that explore the living wonders of the ocean and the living planet. Her titles, including What the Wild Sea Can Be, The Brilliant Abyss, Spirals in Time and the global bestseller What a Shell Can Tell, have been adapted for stage and screen and translated into 15 languages. She writes for National Geographic Magazine and the Guardian, teaches at Cambridge University and is a storytelling ambassador for the Save Our Seas Foundation. Helen divides her time between Cambridge, England, and the wild Atlantic coast of France.