Edward Posnett is the author of Strange Harvests: Giving and Taking from the Natural World (The Bodley Head/Viking, 2019) as well as Eiderdown, the winner of the Financial Times/Bodley Head Essay Prize. His work has appeared in The Guardian, Lit Hub, The Economist (1843), and the Financial Times. He was previously the Alistair Horne Visiting Fellow at St Antony’s College, Oxford. Prior to writing, he worked in financial investigations in the City of London covering the Middle East and Southern Europe.