Katherine Rundell on The Golden Mole // Book Club

Описание: ‘Earth is so various and so startling that our capacity for wonder, huge as it is, can barely skim the edges of the truth’.

September’s book club pick is ‘The Golden Mole: And Other Vanishing Treasure’, Katherine Rundell’s magical collection of some of the world’s most awe-inspiring creatures. The book, first published in 2022, contains 22 essays about animals which either are endangered or have a subspecies that is endangered, and is both an ode to the living world and a call to arms to cherish and protect this fragile and wonderful planet of ours. Katherine generously chose to donate all author royalties for the book in perpetuity to two charities, one on land and one on sea, which change every few years. They are currently the Forest Peoples Programme and Blue Ventures.

Katherine Rundell is a multi-million-bestselling author, whose work spans from children’s books – including the wildly acclaimed ‘Rooftoppers’, ‘The Explorer’ and ‘Impossible Creatures’ – to non-fiction such as ‘Why You Should Read Children’s Books, Even Though You Are So Old and Wise’ and ‘Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne’. A recipient of many an accolade, Katherine is considered one of the most inventive and original authors of children’s fiction writing today. She is also a Fellow of St Catherine’s College and a Quondam Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford.