Giles Sparrow is an author specializing in astronomy and physics. He’s written about everything from space technology to the history of science. With my editorial hat on, both independently and as a partner in Pikaia Imaging, I’ve worked across a huge range of books – highlights include: The In Minutes series (400-page compact introductions to complex subjects across a wide range of sciences and humanities). 50 Ideas You Need to Know series (more in-depth books looking at specific topics ranging from economics and Islam to chemistry and biology). 100 Places/100 Things series (Dan Smith, Quercus, 2012-15) – A series of quirky guides to world mysteries and related topics. Animals (Keith Laidler, Quercus, 2009) Evolution (Douglas Palmer, Mitchell Beazley, 2009) Universe (Dorling Kindersley, 2005). I write regularly for magazines including “All About Space” and “The Week Junior – Science and Nature”, as well as intermittently for “Focus” and “The Sky at Night”. In the past I’ve worked with the team at Eaglemoss Publications to devise and develop two successful partworks – “Build a Model Solar System” and “Build a Model Earth, Moon and Sun Orbiter”, acting as principal writer and editorial consultant throughout this 3-year project. Despite my educational background in astronomy, I have broad experience from a career in publishing, and knowledge that encompasses the whole range of sciences and many other topics, some of which I’ve been able to express as an editor of popular reference books (and especially through my own 2017 “everything you need to know” book, “The Genius Test”). Specialties: Astronomy, spaceflight, history of science, earth sciences, palaeontology.