Kate Nicholls is a British author, liberal arts teacher, feminist and mother of five. She lives in Rome.
Kate belongs to a theatrical family and enjoyed a successful acting career before choosing to study evolutionary biology. She was mentored by Richard Dawkins. She moved to Botswana to raise her children in a developing country and worked for Women Against Rape before moving into the wilderness to research lions in the Okavango Delta for over a decade. During this time, she homeschooled her four younger children in a tented camp, with no access to the internet. They wrote a book, The Lion Children, published by Orion in 2001, about their life among the lions. Her children graduated from ‘lion school’ to universities in the Unites States and Europe.
Kate’s memoir set, in Botswana and London, Under the Camelthorn Tree was published by Weidenfeld and Nicolson in 2019.
Kate’s passion for independent lifelong learning led her to establish residential homeschool programmes in London and an educational consultancy. She specialises in US college admissions (she has a 99% success rate) and she supports homeschool families by developing exciting, bespoke curricula. She lives in Rome and is working on her second novel. Her first novel The Maternal Element was published by Salt in June, 2026.
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