![]() It’s told through the eyes of Domhildur, a midwife who has just delivered her one thousand nine hundred and twenty-second baby in the days before Christmas as a deadly storm approaches the island. Her latest novel Animal Life, translated by Brian FitzGibbon, blends themes of the natural and human worlds as surprisingly as The Golden Mole. Katherine also shares her favourite fictonal stories about animals, including a reading from The Sheep Pig by Dick King-Smith.Īlso exploring the fragility of our natural world, Chris talks to the Icelandic writer Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir. ![]() Exploring how she blended art and science, poetry and natural history through writings from Pliny, Aristotle, TS Eliot, Hemingway, Russian fairy tales and Greek mythology to inspire her readers about the beauty of the natural world and the fragility of its existence. Katherine talks to Chris Power today about The Golden Mole and Other Living Treasures, a collection of impassioned essays on the world's endangered animals. She also published The Zebra’s Great Escape, one of many children’s books she’s written which include her award winning The Explorers and Rooftoppers. ![]() ![]() It’s been a prolific year for The Golden Mole’s author, Katherine Rundell, who last month became the youngest ever winner of the Baillie Gifford prize for Super-Infinite, her biography of the Renaissance poet John Donne. ![]()
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