Lucy Cooke has a Master's in Zoology from the University of Oxford,
where she was tutored by Richard Dawkins. She is the author of two
previous books, A Little Book of Sloth, which was a New York Times
bestseller, and The Unexpected Truth about Animals, which was
shortlisted for the Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book
Prize and has been translated into seventeen languages. She has
also written for the Sunday Times, Telegraph, Mail on Sunday, New
York Times and Wall Street Journal.
Lucy is also an award-winning broadcaster and documentary
filmmaker. Initially working behind the scenes in television
comedy, she is now a regular on Radio 4 and has presented
prime-time series for BBC, ITV and National Geographic.
Lucy Cooke's Bitch shows just how far we have come in seeing
nature's females for what they actually are.'
*Telegraph*
Surprising sex lives of the animal kingdom: From bondage-loving
spiders to 'Scrooge-like' lobsters who save their sperm for a
female who's 'worth it', BITCH lifts the lid on kinky creatures
*Daily Mail*
Best books of 2022 so far: Zoologist Lucy Cooke's hilarious and
enlightening book reclaims evolutionary biology for females of all
species.
*New Statesman*
Mr Darwin, your time is up...This is the evolutionary reboot us
bitches have been waiting for.
*Sue Perkins*
Brilliant ... Cooke is a superb science writer
*TLS*
Beautifully written, very funny and deeply important - Lucy Cooke
blows two centuries of sexist myths right out of biology.
*Professor Alice Roberts*
A complete and precise exploration of sex , what a joy!
*Chris Packham*
Fun, informative and revolutionary all at once, Bitch should be
required reading in school. This is a joyous, and often hilarious,
romp in which Cooke simultaneously does justice to the actual data,
gives voice to the substantive contributions of women scientists,
and demolishes bias, blindness and ignorance about sex in the
academy and in the public. After reading this book one will never
look at a clownfish, a barnacle, an orca, an albatross or a human
the same way again. And the world will be better for it.
*Augustin Fuentes, professor of anthropology at Princeton
University and author of The Creative Spark*
Lucy Cooke's marvellous Bitch blasts the dust off stuffy old ideas
to celebrate the true and wildly diverse influence of femal
creatures throughout the animal kingdom, revealing them to be every
bit as promiscuous, competitive, aggressive and dynamic as males
... In chapters fizzing with X-rated factoids, Cooke merrily
demolishes myth after myth about our wild sisters ... Never mean or
boring. It's exhilarating to zip through the world with her as she
points out what has been missed or misinterpreted.
*Telegraph*
A colourful, committed and deeply informed book.
*Sunday Times*
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