Late Light (WINNER OF THE 2024 WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING) - Malay Michael

WINNER OF THE 2024 WAINWRIGHT PRIZEWINNER OF THE 2023 RICHARD JEFFERIES AWARD FOR NATURE WRITINGInspirational - THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZEA bright, fierce hope for the future - THE IRISH TIMESAn astonishing read - AMY LIPTROTIrresistible - SARA BAUME Will leave you aching with world-love - ABI ANDREWS Simply mesmerising - JESSICA J. LEEA tender, marvellous book - NICK HUNT This is a book about falling in love with vanishing things Late Light is the story of Michael Malays own journey, an Indonesian Australian making a home for himself in England and finding strange parallels between his life and the lives of the animals he examines. Mixing natural history with memoir, this book explores the mystery of our animal neighbours, in all their richness and variety. It is about the wonder these animals inspired in our ancestors, the hope they inspire in us, and the joy they might still hold for our children. Late Light is about migration, belonging and extinction. Through the close examination of four particular unloved animals - eels, moths, crickets and mussels - Michael Malay tells the story of the economic, political and cultural events that have shaped the modern landscape of Britain. For readers of Robert Macfarlane, Raynor Winn and Helen Macdonald, Late Light is a rich blend of memoir, natural history, nature writing, and a meditation on being and belonging, from a vibrant new voice.