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ROBIN BAKER is a bestselling author in the field of sexual biology. His other non-fiction titles include BABY WARS (Fourth Estate 1997), SEX IN THE FUTURE (Macmillan 1999) and FRAGILE SCIENCE (Macmillan 2001). He is a writer, lecturer and broadcaster with over a hundred scientific papers and journalistic articles to his name. He now lives in the south of Spain with his family. He is currently at work on a non-fiction book about sex and religion provisionally entitled SEX BEFORE BELIEF: The Birth of the World's Religions which shows how our (mis)understandings about sex and procreation have created the tenets of the world religions. He is also working on two new fiction titles.
A story of murder and mystery, love and sacrifice: a man gives a lift to an unusual hitchhiker, a woman who has been thrown bound and naked from a car. As he hears her bizarre but intriguing story, it seems that there is nobody who could be the father of her child, least of all her rich, powerful and vindictive husband. Mark de Vries teaches Zoology at an English University; the rest of his time he spends with his research team in the remote Kalahari Desert. Against his will, Mark is drawn into the mystery of the hitchhiker's child. A sequence of murders, rapes, intimidation and blackmail means that both his livelihood and survival depend on finding the answer. When the mystery is solved it becomes clear that what happened to the hitchhiker could happen to anybody. As in PRIMAL and CABALLITO, the innovative sexual science behind THE HITCHHIKER'S CHILD is real. But no one knows it yet.
Hard Nut Books UK & US
Material: finished copy (239pp).
Max, a young lecturer in anthropology, discovers a couple of handwritten pages written by a Victorian adventuress who once lived with an unknown tribe in the Amazon. Determined to discover more, Max is dragged into a world of mysterious suicides, pagan sects, child prostitution and police harassment, where cultures and moralities collide. CABALLITO is also a vision of an alternative society, one in which fatherhood and childhood innocence have no meaning, and where communities share everything, including each other. Once upon a time, it was how all people lived - a few still do.
Hard Nut Books UK & US
Lord of the Flies meets Lost meets The Beach. Presumed dead, a group of undergraduate students who go missing on a deserted Pacific island emerge one year later in two groups of ragged (and naked) survivors. All but one of the surviving women have conceived, and two students, plus their professor, are said to have died. In the glare of the world's media, every survivor sticks to the same unconvincing version of events. Piece-by-piece the narrator examines the evidence and conducts interviews with the survivors, to work out exactly what happened on the island during that year. Slowly, a disturbing picture emerges of feral humans driven by rivalry and sexual tension ...a scenario that tests the supposedly dead professor's theory that by nature people are no different from apes in the wild.
'Primal is a fascinating examination of what human nature really is.
Terrific stuff, and heads and shoulders above what most people come to expect from a publisher's 'horror line', and as such a fitting addition to a very high quality line of literary, intelligent works of edgy fiction.' British Fantasy Society Forum
'Wow, double wow. Primal is one of the best books I have read this year by far. Robin Baker sucks you into a world where you are ultimately amazed and perplexed by the story that unfolds. This is one book that will blow you away.' Coffee Time Romance and MoreUS
Virgin UK & US
Mistral/FMB NL
Kinneret Israel
JC Lattes France
Record Brazil
Metafora Czech Republic
Material: finished copies (384pp).
Now a modern classic of popular science writing, SPERM WARS is Robin Baker’s revolutionary thesis about sex. Evolution has programmed men to conquer and monopolise women, while women, without ever knowing they are doing it, seek the best genetic input on offer from potential sexual partners. He reveals the new facts of life: 10 per cent of children are not fathered by their ‘fathers’, less than 1 per cent of a man’s sperm is capable of fertilising anything, and a woman is far more likely to conceive through a casual fling than through sex with her regular partner.
Baker describes fictionalised scenes and then explains the science behind the actions to demonstrate how our everyday behaviour fits into a pattern of evolution.
Published to acclaim and controversy a decade ago, SPERM WARS turned centuries-old biological assumptions on their head.
‘The most entertaining science book of the year.’ Sunday Times
‘Riveting.’ The Times
‘Fascinating.’ Daily Mail
Thundersmouth Press/Perseus Books
UK & USA
Yuan Fang China (simplified)
Rye-Field China (complex)
Limes Verlag Germany (Bastei paperback)
JC Lattes France
Record Brazil
Rebis Poland
El Paradiso Estonia
Issihia Misztikus Kozpont Hungary
Jota Czech Republic
Ehak Korea
Litera International Romania
Lac Hong Books Vietnam
Alpina Russia
Paloma Turkey
Published but out of print & rights reverted:
Macmillan UK
Basic Books USA
Arbeiderspers NL
Pecker Israel
Diana World Spanish
Kachi Korea
Baldini & Castoldi Italy
HarperCollins Canada
Forum Sweden
Borgen Denmark
Kawade Shobo Japan
Vega Portugal