Peter Forbes
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Peter Forbes is a science writer and journalist writing mainly on life sciences and natural history. He read chemistry and worked for the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain and in Natural History publishing before becoming a freelance writer. He lives in London and teaches the Narrative Non-Fiction course at City St George’s, University of London. His first full-length nonfiction book, The Gecko's Foot, a ground-breaking introduction to the new field of engineering and materials solutions inspired by nature, was longlisted for the Royal Society/Aventis prize. He followed this with Dazzled and Deceived: Mimicry and Camouflage, which won the Warwick Prize for Writing. His latest book is Thinking Small and Large: How Microbes Made and Can Save Our World (Icon, 2025).
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