James Bashford completed his medical degree at Cambridge University in 2010, before starting specialist neurology training at King’s College Hospital, London. He obtained a PhD in clinical neuroscience in 2019. He now works as a clinical academic and honorary consultant neurologist in South London, leading a research programme and caring for patients in a specialist motor nerve clinic. He is a father, an amateur moth-er (note the intentional hyphen) and a makeshift marathoner. Nature Within is his first book.