The Crocodile Tomb (Gods and Warriors Book 4)

Michelle Paver was born in Malawi; her father was South African and her mother is Belgian. They moved to England when she was small and she was brought up in Wimbledon, where she still lives. After gaining a first in biochemistry at Oxford she became a lawyer and was until recently a partner of a large City law firm, specialising in patent litigation. She has now given up the law to write full-time. She is the author of Without Charity, A Place in the Hills, The Shadow Catcher and Fever Hill all published by Corgi. Her latest novel, The Sepent's Tooth is now available in Bantam Press hardcover.

Michelle Paver was born in Malawi in 1960 and moved to England when she was three. After gaining a degree in Biochemistry from Oxford, she became a partner in a City law firm, but gave that up to write full-time. To research her stories about animals and the distant past, she has travelled in the Arctic, the Mediterranean and Egypt, swum with dolphins and killer whales, and encountered bears, boars and wolves. She is the author of the brilliantly successful Chronicles of Ancient Darkness.