Ann Lingard

A short biography

'Crossing boundaries'  between science and the arts: Ann Lingard  - as a scientist and fiction-writer - has always enjoyed weaving the two cultures together.

After a first career as an academic and research scientist at Cambridge and Glasgow Universities, working on immunity to parasites, Ann 'leapt off the career ladder' to take up a second career in writing and broadcasting.

Ann and her husband John Lackie live on a small-holding in North-West Cumbria, within sight of the Fells and the Solway Firth, from which they run Plumbland Consulting and rear a few Herdwick sheep.

News

• Now available as ebooks! Floating Stones from Online Originals,  The Embalmer's Book of Recipes, from Amazon, and Seaside Pleasures from Amazon and iTunes

• Listen to the Nature's Magic programmes in the BBC Radio 4 archive

• Or find out how scientists and fiction-writers can work together in SciTalk

• Read about the Solway Firth, or find out about Ann's informal guided shore-walks, on Solway Shore Stories

• NEW! Read the fascinating life-stories of some of the participants in the studies on the Lothian Birth Cohorts 1921 and 1936 at LBC Lifetimes

Available now