Claudia Martin is a highly respected author of non-fiction
for children
and young adults, with an exceptional talent for making
complex ideas
accessible. She specialises in the subjects of geography,
science, and
the natural world. Her
books have been translated into
14 languages and
have sold over a quarter of a million copies. She
lives in London.
Helen Giles (consultant) is an astronomer with a PhD from the Observatoire de Genve
in Switzerland. She is a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, a
Member of the European Astronomical Society, and an expert in the study
of starspot photometric signatures and the hunting of extrasolar
planets.