Kate Nicholls is an author, biologist, liberal arts homeschool teacher, feminist, mother of five, and grandmother of five. She hails from a theatrical family and enjoyed a successful acting career before choosing to study evolutionary biology. She was mentored by Richard Dawkins. She moved to Botswana to raise her children in a developing country and worked for Women Against Rape before moving into the wilderness to research lions in the Okavango Delta for over a decade. During this time, she homeschooled her four younger children in a tented camp, with no access to the internet. They wrote a book, The Lion Children, published by Orion in 2001, about their life among the lions. Her children graduated from ‘lion school’ to universities in the States and Europe. Kate’s passion for independent lifelong learning led her to establish an educational consultancy specialising in homeschooling and developing bespoke curricula.

Her memoir Under the Camelthorn Tree was published by Weidenfeld and Nicolson in 2019.

The Maternal Element, about Maria Mendeleeva ( Dmitri’s mother)  is her first novel and is currently out with publishers.

Kate is represented by Megan Staunton

www.bergstromstudio.co.uk