How did you become engaged in writing textbooks? I began my journey with a small publishing company prior to authoring three Oxford chemistry introductory texts on main group clusters, the heavier d-block metals, and metal–metal bonded species. Pearson reached out to me to author a textbook on bioinorganic chemistry, which was slightly outside my area […]

How did you become involved in writing textbooks? Stuart Warren, my PhD supervisor, was contacted by Michael Rodgers, a commissioning editor at Oxford University Press, to author a textbook on organic chemistry. Stuart replied to Rodgers, ‘I can’t do it alone due to time constraints, but I could manage it if I assembled a team […]