Nicola Wilding

Nicola grew up in the Eden Valley in Cumbria as part of a rural working class family, an experience that has shaped both her worldview and her storytelling.

A writer and TV producer with twenty-five years of experience, she’s made documentaries on everything from poverty, class and farming to puppies, roller coasters and vacuum cleaners, working with brilliant minds and personalities including Hannah Fry, David Attenborough, Richard Dawkins, Stephen Hawking, Michael Moseley, Clare Balding and The Hairy Bikers.

Her debut book, These Wild English, will be published by Profile in 2026. This searing and fierce but beautiful family memoir follows three generations of rural working-class people as they drift from country to town, lurch from blows and misfortunes to hard-won joys, and navigate the social and economic chaos of modern Britain. With echoes of Amy Liptrot, Helen Macdonald and Tan Westover’s Educated, These Wild English is a story of love, pride, protest and anger, and an ongoing struggle to find belonging from dislocation.

Nicola splits her time between Glasgow and Cumbria with her boyfriend and a whippet called Snippet.