Hugh Warwick is an ecologist and writer with a particular fondness for hedgehogs. His first book, A Prickly Affair, was endorsed by Jeanette Winterson and Ann Widdecombe. In April 2014 Reaktion Books published his illustrated monograph on the iconography of the hedgehog and his later book Linescapes (2017) investigates the impact that the lines we make have on the capacity of wildlife to thrive. In addition to writing Hugh has engaged in public speaking, from primary schools to postgraduate research groups via the WI and Wildlife Trusts.