“My assistant reached out to me and said, ‘This query came in today and it’s either brilliant or it’s bananas, because there’s a talking octopus,’” Nelson recalled. The book had an ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. THE LIFE CYCLE OF THE COMMON OCTOPUS, by Emma Knight As a British reader, I am admittedly fussy ...

We read Katherine Courage's book "Octopus!" and discovered that the octopus is even weirder than it looks. A special thanks to NOAA and professor of marine biology at the Alaska Pacific University ...

Emma Knight joins TODAY’s Jenna Bush Hager and guest co-host Kimberly Schlapman to talk about her debut novel “The Life Cycle ...

This octopus species lives in open water in Earth’s tropical and subtropical seas. It’s not the easiest place to find a mate, especially since the male is tiny—less than three-quarters of an ...

Knight has published two cookbooks, but she says "The Life Cycle of the Common Octopus," her debut novel, has been five years in the making after she started writing what would become the book in ...