Non-fiction

'Putting science in fiction', SciArt

• 2009   ‘Why is science important (for writers too)?’ on the ‘Why science?’ website (external link)
• 2009   ‘A different point of view’ (external link)
• 2007   ‘Six scientists in search of an author’, in the Writers’ Handbook
• 2006 ‘It’s good to SciTalk’: written interview with LabLit (external link)
• 2006   ‘Science by Subterfuge’, in ‘Writing in Education’
• 2006   ‘Is Sci-Art one-directional?’, Aesthetica
• 2005   Science Fusion, in the Guardian (external link)
• 2003 ‘Seaside pleasures: putting the snails into stories’ (external link)

Science, countryside and coast

• Specialist consultant and entry-writer for dictionaries and encyclopaedias
• Academic works
• 2010-  Regular feature writer for Cumbria magazine
• 2010 Solway Shore Stories (external link)
• 2008 ‘Sheep don’t all look the same.’
• 2005-07 Regular feature, Science from the Outside, for Wellcome Science
• 2005-07 Regular feature for Cumbria magazine: ‘I wonder why ..?’ series
• 2004 ‘Schistosomiasis: a parasite’s perspective.’
• 2003-04 Regular feature in Cumbria Life - the ‘Solway Firth series’
• 2001   ‘Otmoor 2000 AD: a reflection on an English landscape and its community’
• 1997-98 Regular feature, Walking the Dog, in Oxford Times’ Limited Edition magazine

Writing novels

• 2010 ‘Ruth Kowslowski’s blog’ (external link)
• 2010 ‘It’s the eyes that are important’, in The Lancet (external link)
• 2009   ‘Making eyes’, in Wellcome History magazine (external link)
• 2009   ‘A different point of view’ - about writing my novels (external link)
• 2006 ‘Seaside pleasures: the anemonisers of Scotland’
• 2005 ‘Seaside Pleasures: Philip Henry Gosse and the marine aquarium’
• 2004 ‘Corals, cuttle-fish and crowbars: Philip Henry Gosse at Weymouth’
• 2003 ‘Seaside pleasures: Philip Henry Gosse and the bathing-women’ (external link)