Michael Malay in Conversation - Late Light - Nature Book of the Year

About

Winner of the Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing 2024 and Winner of the Richard Jefferies Award for Nature Writing 2023, Michael Malay joins us for a very special evening event.
Late Light is a beautifully written examination of the state of the English countryside and the story of Michael's 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.
Dr Michael Malay is a writer and lecturer based in Bristol. He spent his early years in Jakarta, Indonesia, before moving to Australia with his family at the age of ten. Late Light is his first book.
Tickets 3 redeemable against a book purchased on the evening. Michael will be signing copies of his book at the end of the event.