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‘Exquisite and timely.’ Maggie O’Farrell
‘A rare and magical book. I didn’t want it to end.’ Bill Bryson
‘A witty, intoxicating paean to Earth’s wondrous creatures.’ Observer
‘A total miracle.’ Max Porter
** Shortlisted for Waterstones and Foyles Book of the Year **
** Shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing **
** A Top Ten Sunday Times bestseller **
The world is more astonishing, more miraculous and more wonderful than our wildest imaginings. In this passionately persuasive and sharply funny book, Katherine Rundell tells us how and why.
A lavishly illustrated collection of the lives of some of the Earth’s most astounding animals, The Golden Mole is a chance to be awestruck and lovestruck – to reckon with the beauty of the world, its fragility, and its strangeness.
A swift flies two million kilometres in its lifetime. That’s far enough to get to the moon and back twice over – and then once more to the moon. A pangolin keeps its tongue furled in a pouch by its hip. A Greenland shark can live five hundred years. A wombat once inspired a love poem.
‘Rundell’s pen is gold-tipped.’ Sunday Times
‘I love everything about this book: it is a rare little treasure.’ Joanna Lumley
‘Beautifully written.’ Monty Don
Katherine Rundell’s book The Golden Mole was a Sunday Times bestseller w/c 04-11-2023
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From bears to bats to hermit crabs, a witty, intoxicating paean to Earth's wondrous creatures . . . shot through with Rundell's characteristic wit and swagger.
Guardian
A rare and magical book. I didn't want it to end.
Bill Bryson
A book as rare and precious as a golden mole. A joyous catalogue of curiosities that builds into a timely reminder that life on planet is worth our wonder.
Frank Cottrell-Boyce
A loving and lovely book.
Sarah Moss
Rundell is the real deal, a writer of boundless gifts and extraordinary imaginative power.
Observer
'Deeply affecting, intimate and wildly funny . . . I loved it.'
Edmund de Waal
'A wondrous ode to nature's astonishing beauty – and an elegy for all the life we are in the midst of destroying. This is a book filled with love and hope and whiskers and wings, by turns ravishing and devastating. No one sings the praises of the world quite like Katherine Rundell.'
Amia Srinivasan
Rundell is a class act.
The Times
Rundell is an astonishing young talent.
Daily Mail
It is among my proudest boasts, that I was massive Rundell fan before she became a national treasure.
Dan Snow
Rundell's pen is gold-tipped.
Sunday Times
She's beguiling us with an exquisitely written bestiary of the world's most astonishing animals. I shall be jealously guarding my own copy and buying several more for Christmas presents.
Jacqueline Wilson
Teaming up with the illustrator Talya Baldwin, she has created a paper menagerie of twenty-two exquisite, daunting and vulnerable creatures.
Literary Review
Exquisitely written.
Times
An exuberant celebration of everything from bats, crows and hedgehogs to narwhals and wombats . . . Rundell is incapable of writing a dull sentence.
Observer
| Weight | 0.56 kg |
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| Dimensions | 212 × 165 × 20 cm |
