"""Killer Energy"" will be the 23rd Horrible Science title and brings together a number of strong science themes - heat and cold, nuclear power, recycling and how the human body powers itself - making this is an excellent classroom book as well as a popular playground read. There are the usual gory details, such as why going to the loo in space can freeze your pee and which liguid chemical is used to preserve pets. Plus you can find out how your body turns stodgy school dinners into energy, why steaming manure can warm you up and how to build your own geothermal power station. With strikingly different cover and a mass of information, ""Killer Energy"" proves that Horrible Science still has a lot of powerful material for turning young stomachs. "

Nick Arnold, has been writing books and stories since he was a lad. Even in those days his favourite subjects for stories were horrible goings-on… the more gruesome the better! So you see, he hasn't changed a bit!
Nick's first published books appeared when he was working at the University of North London on a project teaching children about nature. This led to a magazine article and then, one day, Nick had a brilliant idea. He said to himself:
"If I can write newspaper articles, then I can write books for other publishers too!"
So he boldly wrote off with his ideas to many of the leading publishers in the UK and some of them asked him to write books. Since then Nick has lost count of the number of books he's written (that's 'cos he can't count very far!). In 1996, he teamed up with Scholastic and began writing the incredibly popular Horrible Science series.