Charles Foster is the author of the New York Times bestseller Being a Beast, which was longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction and the Wainwright Prize, won the 30 Millions d'Amis prize in France, and is the subject of a forthcoming feature film. His second book The Screaming Sky was shortlisted for the Wainwright nature writing prize 2021, and Being a Human came out in August 2021 to great acclaim. His writing has appeared in many publications including the Guardian, the Spectator, National Geographic, BBC Wildlife magazine, Time Out, the Daily Telegraph, the Independent, the Oldie and the Literary Review.His current academic interests relate mainly to the relevance of identity and personhood in decision-making, and to whether the notion of dignity can do any real work at the philosophical coal-face.He read veterinary medicine and law at Cambridge, and is a qualified veterinary surgeon. He holds a PhD in law/bioethics from the University of Cambridge. An illustrator who is also an architect An artist from Dublin. His work ranges from cartoons to painting figurative sculptures for Oswestry's town sculpture trail; from origami to painting a version of the Mona Lisa for Brennan's Brewery. His work is featured in several books and he has his own book of cartoons out.
Charles Foster's A Little Brown Sea is brilliantly original- a
strange and elegant triumph. Evie Wyld
Because the story of a life is the story of the lives that
intersect with it, A SMALL BROWN SEA broadens the scope of the
novel to encompass the beings with which we share this planet and
without which we cannot be fully ourselves. Charles Foster, working
out in fiction the concerns that inform his remarkable non-fiction,
combines here the curiosity of the scientist with the heart of a
storyteller. I loved this aphoristic, argumentative and
form-stretching novel, and hope others will let it mess with their
heads. Gregory Norminton The fragmented polyphony of Charles
Foster's astonishingly ambitious and highly experimental debut
novel, A Little Brown Sea, expresses the essential tohuwabohu of
the human condition and provides a vehicle for the exploration of
'ultimate questions' of meaning and purpose, particularly in
relation to the human encounter with self and the natural world.
The maverick spirit and boundary-breaking hybridity of the novel
reflects similar qualities in Foster's celebrated philosophical
enquiries Being a Beast and Being a Human, confirming him as one of
the most singular and important-both playful and profound-voices of
our time. Steve Ely
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