Sally Coulthard is a bestselling author of over twenty-five books about natural history and rural life including A Short History of the World According to Sheep, The Hedgehog Handbook and A Brief History of the Countryside in 100 Objects. After studying Archaeology and Anthropology at Oxford, and working in factual television production, Sally moved back to her beloved Yorkshire, married a gardener and set up a smallholding; it's from there, surrounded by her family and other animals, that Sally writes from a shed in the old orchard.