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STEVE PARKER
Steve Parker was born and raised in south east London. At age twenty-one he joined the Metropolitan Police where he served for twenty years in numerous high profile squads before injury forced him out.
On leaving the police he took up an enforcement job with a local authority until being made redundant. Once the dust had settled, he decided he'd had enough of enforcement work and decided that early retirement looked good.
Thankfully, he was blessed with a complete lack of DIY skills so was legitimately able to get away with swanning around the house doing bugger all, all day long. Finding himself with plenty of spare time and a deep desire to never work for anyone again, he dug out an old screenplay he'd written when he was still a policeman and set himself a challenge to turn it into the book which eventually became his debut novel Their Last Words introducing Detectives Paterson & Clocks.
He currently lives in the windier part of East Sussex with his wife and the laziest Cockapoo you've ever seen.
BOOKS BY STEVE PARKER
DETECTIVES PATERSON & CLOCKS
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Steve Parker is a nature and science writer and consultant who has written more than one hundred books and websites, and edited or contributed to another hundred-plus. He is a former staff member at London’s Natural History Museum, holds a First Class Honours BSc Degree, and is a Senior Scientific Fellow of the Zoological Society of London. Steve has received numerous awards and credits from organizations as varied as the British School Library Association, the New York Times, and the British Medical Association. Steve has recently written massive tomes in collaboration with Professors Robert Winston (Human Body) and Alice Roberts (Evolution), and has also written a nature series of 16-page books for early readers. Which was most fun remains secret. Recent titles include the stunning twin-set Camouflage and Display (Ivy Press) and The Weather Book (Lonely Planet). Plans are shaping up for personal appearances at schools, libraries, and science and nature events in 2025.
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Steve Parker (writer)
British children's science writer
Steve Parker is a British science writer of children's and adult's books. He has written more than 300 titles and contributed to or edited another 150.[1]
Life
Born in Warrington, Lancashire, in 1952, Parker attended Strodes College, Egham and gained a BSc First Class Honours in Zoology at the University of Wales, Bangor. He worked as an exhibition scientist at the Natural History Museum, and as editor and managing editor at Dorling Kindersley Publishers, and commissioning editor at medical periodical GP, before becoming a freelance writer in the late 1980s. He is a Senior Scientific Fellow of the Zoological Society of London. Parker is based in Suffolk with his family.[2]
Publishing work
Parker's writing career began with 10 early titles in Dorling Kindersley's multi-award-winning Eyewitness series, from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. He has since worked for more than a dozen children's book publishers and been shortlisted for, among others, the Rhone-Poulenc Science Book Priz
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