The Golden Mole

A rare and magical book. I didnt want it to end. Bill Bryson
A total miracle. Max Porter
A witty, intoxicating paean to Earths wondrous creatures.Observer
Rundells pen is gold-tipped.Sunday Times

** SHORTLISTED FOR WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR **

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 Earths 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. Thats 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.