Helen Scales
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Helen Scales is a marine biologist, journalist, and acclaimed author. She writes about ocean science and conservation for The Guardian and National Geographic Magazine, among others.
Her books have been adapted for stage and screen, and translated into 17 languages. They include What the Wild Sea Can Be, which was shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction and the Wainwright Prize for Conservation Writing. Her children’s books include the global best-seller What a Shell Can Tell and Scientists in the Wild, Antarctica, which was shortlisted for the Children’s Travel Book of the Year and The Week Junior Children’s STEM Book of the Year.
Scales divides her time between Cambridge, England, and the wild Atlantic coast of France.
