About the Author

Dr Sharad P. Paul practises and teaches internationally in the field of cutaneous oncology and is involved in developing innovative skincare products and cosmetics. He writes literary fiction and runs literacy programmes for disadvantaged children via his Baci Foundation charitable trust. His first novel, Cool Cut (Picador, 2007), was reissued by HarperCollins as The Kite Flyers in 2013. Paul's second novel, To Kill a Snow Dragonfly, was published by Fourth Estate in 2012. Skin: A Biography (Fourth Estate, 2012), his first creative non-fiction work, was an ambitious mapping of the history and science of skin and skin colour.