Carol Cooper was a doctor and journalist before becoming an author, which may explain why all her books have a medical strand. Her third novel, The Girls from Alexandria, is set mainly in Egypt during the 1950s and 1960s. The History of Medicine in Twelve Objects was published by Quarto in October 2024. Carol is now working on a history of the world as seen through a dozen diseases.

Carol has contributed regular columns to publications as different as The Sun and The Lancet. A frequent face at live events and on TV and radio, she also has audiobook narration experience.

Carol lives in Cambridge and is a Fellow of Newnham College.

You can find her on Twitter/X, Instagram, Threads, and her website.