He is the author of three highly acclaimed books: WATCHING THE DETECTIVES (Hodder and Stoughton) – on the Metropolitan Police; THE DARWIN WARS (Simon and Schuster) – about the feuds and in fighting which have riven the field of evolutionary theory and IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE WORM (Simon and Schuster) – finding the secrets behind the life of this tiny hermaphrodite. FISHING IN UTOPIA was published by Granta Books in 2008 and won the 2009 George Orwell Prize.