Bite Club

It's a trauma like no other. Being perceived as a threat or, worse, hunted as food makes an animal attack a unique ordeal. Suddenly you're helpless, at its mercy. When an animal strikes it is lightning fast, determined and can't be reasoned with. Often brutally violent, such an attack can leave horrific injuries, both physical and emotional that endure long after the encounter. Whether it's a great white shark, a bear, lion, or other deadly predator, the impact such attacks can have on the victim, their families, the communities, and the wider human psyche is often profound and enduring. And when you add the media attention that such incidents often attract, the actual bite might not be the only attack a survivor has to endure. In Bite Club, we meet brave people from around the world who have come face to face with sharks or other deadly predators and lived to tell the tale. And we learn of the group of survivors who are supporting each other to navigate, recover and grow from what is for many, their most traumatic experience ever. AUTHOR: Douglas Wight is the Sunday Times bestselling author or ghostwriter of sixteen non-fiction books, most recently India Uniform Nine (Icon, 2022), Son of Escobar (Ad Lib, 2020) and The Bad Room (Harper Element, 2020). His books have sold over 100,000 copies, and include The Laundry Man (Penguin, 2012), the memoir of Ken Rijock, a Miami-based money launderer for Colombian drug smugglers; the autobiography of Olympic gold medal winning hockey player Sam Quek (White Owl, 2018), which was long-listed for the Telegraph Sports Autobiography of the Year 2019; Unforgivable (Penguin, 2014), the Sunday Times bestselling memoir of a woman who won a landmark legal case against a local authority who failed to protect her from an abusive mother; and Wish I Was There (John Blake, 2013), the autobiography of actress Emily Lloyd, whose glittering Hollywood career was blighted by mental illness. He has been a journalist and writer for over twenty years covering news, features, politics and investigations in London, New York and his native Scotland.