Will Millard is a writer and BBC presenter who specialises in extraordinary human stories, natural history, and remote living.
So far, he has written four adult non-fiction books: two as a ghost-writer, one as a co-author, and one as sole-author, for the Penguin imprints Ebury and Viking, and, most recently, PanMacmillan. His debut, The Old Man and The Sand Eel (Viking, 2018), followed his two-year quest to break a British fishing record; and he spent 2022 working with a Scottish hermit on The Way of the Hermit – due out in June 2023 for PanMacmillan. He has also penned a series of early-reader children’s books on miniature ecosystems with Magic Cat, and has My First Day Fishing due for publication with them in 2023. His ghost-writing credits include a Sunday Times bestseller on the life of a shepherd, and another on an isolated Vet.
He writes regularly on environmental issues, adventure, mental health, and angling (including the BBC website, The Guardian, Fallon’s Angler, The Telegraph, Countryfile Magazine, Vice, and Geographical) and frequently speaks in theatres, festivals, and schools – reading from his books and bringing the natural world, and his adventures, to his audience through immersive show-and-tell.
Aside from his writing, Will is the BAFTA Cymru winning documentary presenter of seven BBC series (including Hunters of the South Seas, My Year With The Tribe, Hidden Wales, the River Wye, the River Taff and Go Fish!). He was a jungle expedition leader for almost a decade and has been honoured to live, learn, and work alongside some of the remotest indigenous communities on earth.
He is a Fellow of the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust and the Royal Geographical Society (RGS); an Ambassador for the Angling Trust, the World Fish Migration Foundation, and Keep Wales Tidy; and the very proud Patron of Mobile Education Partnerships, who provide teacher training and resources for students and teachers in war-torn parts of Myanmar.
If he’s not sat at the kitchen table writing, he’s probably off out fishing somewhere in our wonderful Welsh waterways.
