Rupert has spent thirty-five years with the BBC producing prime-time nature documentaries to hold the fleeting attention of family audiences. He’s been excited most of the time, scared occasionally (it was a big snake), and loved it all. Yet he’s always had a yearning to tweak the dial of reality and bend the rules of nature to create imaginary worlds that are nearly, but not quite, like ours. Writing children’s fiction is that dream come true. His writing is fuelled by pastries, and nature creeps in everywhere.
