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Tom Jackson, Author
Liam Cini-O'Dwyer, Author
Ola Szpunar, Illustrator
Series: Your Expert Guide
Imprint: Wayland
Publication date: November 13, 2025
Category: Science: general interest
ISBN: 9781526328038
From top experts in biology education comes this definitive guide to the human body, published in partnership with the Royal Society of Biology.
In Your Expert Guide: The Human Body, discover the many systems and surprising skills of the human body, from your astounding brain at the very top of your body, to the tiny bones in your feet built for walking. Explore the powerful organs and the jobs they do to get a clear picture of how your body works, and how you can look after it.
Written by Tom Jackson and Liam Cini-O’Dwyer and published in partnership with The Royal Society of Biology. With immersive artwork by Ola Szpunar, biology comes alive for curious readers aged 8+.
Books in the Your Expert Guide series:
With Royal Society of Chemistry: The Periodic Table / Chemistry for Young Scientists
With Royal Society of Biology: The Human Body / Biology for Young Scientists
With Institute of Physics: The Universe / Physics for Young Scientists
Tom Jackson has been a writer for 20 years. He has written more than 80 books and contributed to hundreds more. Tom gets to write about a wide range of subjects, everything from axolotls to zoroastrianism. However, his specialties are natural history, technology and all things scientific. Tom spends his days finding fun ways of communicating these kinds of facts, new and old, to all age groups and reading abilities.
Tom lives in Bristol, England, with his wife and three children. He studied zoology at Bristol University and has had spells working at the zoos in Jersey and Surrey. Tom has also worked as a conservationist, which saw him planting trees in Somerset, surveying Vietnamese jungle and rescuing wildlife from drought-ridden Zimbabwe. Writing jobs have also taken him to the Galápagos Islands, the Amazon rain forest, the coral reefs of Indonesia and the Sahara Desert. Nowadays, he can be found mainly in the attic.
Liam’s career has included departmental and whole-school leadership positions in several secondary schools before moving into academia. He continues to teach part-time at a school in Westminster. Liam has also been closely involved in developing and delivering professional development for science teachers and aspiring school middle-managers with a focus on best practices in teaching and learning. Liam joined King’s College London in 2019, initially completing a Master’s in STEM Education before being awarded a Rosalind Driver studentship to study for a PhD. Alongside his studies, he lectures on the science education PGCE course at King’s.
Ola Szpunar is an illustrator based in Gdańsk, Poland. In addition to graduating with master’s degree from Art Academy in Gdańsk, she attended Karel de Grote University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Antwerp and studied book design in Warsaw, Poland. Ola has been successfully running an independent illustration studio since 2017, focusing on children’s books, editorial illustrations and textile design. Ola’s work is colourful and full of light, yet highly detailed and atmospheric. Apart from illustration, Ola also makes playful and delicate ceramics under her own brand, Clai.