Tony Grice was an English and Drama teacher and later became a lecturer in English for Academic Purposes teaching in various institutions in Europe, Africa and Asia. Twenty odd years ago he started writing for a living. This put him behind a desk at home from where he saw little of the outside world.

Tony’s educational writing has been mostly in ELT. For UK publishers he has written course books, teacher’s books and work books for the purpose of teaching vocational English to nurses, mariners and coast guards.

He has also worked on non-commercial projects funded by the European Commission doing much the same stuff – vocational language – this time for workers in the textile and fashion industry, industrial designers and tourism.

Because he had accidentally become an ‘expert’ on restricted language such as that used in VHF radio communication, he also wrote courses for cross border emergency workers and the police.  Most recently he produced Mathspeak – an online course in the language of mathematics presented in strip cartoons with jokes pinched from playgrounds and the Beano.

However, his main interest is animal behaviour and, though it’s been a struggle to get published in science magazines, he has been able to make occasional contributions in the fields of ethology, animal welfare and alternatives to vivisection. An interest in natural history gets him out of the house and into wild places.