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Peter Marren

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Peter Marren is a wildlife writer, journalist and authority on invertebrate folklore and names. His books include the bestselling Rainbow Dust; The New Naturalists, which won the Society for the History of Natural History’s Thackray Medal; and Britain’s Rare Flowers, which won the Botanical Society of the British Isles’ Presidents’ Award. Peter also won a Leverhulme Research Fellowship for his work on Bugs Britannica.

Books by Peter Marren

Chasing the Ghost

Join renowned naturalist Peter Marren on an exciting quest to see every species of wild plant native of Britain.

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Rainbow Dust

A uniquely personal book about butterflies and about the people who love them – which, surely, is most of us

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Bugs Britannica

From sea squirts to slugs to swallowtails, the third, fabulous and gorgeously illustrated book in Richard Mabey's series, a companion volume to the bestselling classics Flora Britannica and Birds Britannica.

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