Late Light with Michael Malay
Thu 21 Nov 2024
7:00pm at Mr B's Emporium of Reading Delights, 14-15 John St, Bath, BA1 2JL
All tickets include 15% off any books purchased on the night, a glass of wine or soft drink, author talk, Q&A and signing.
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Standard Ticket £6.00Add to basket
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Student Ticket £5.00Add to basket
Other ways to book:
Email books@mrbsemporium.com, call 01225 331155 or pop into the shop at 14-15 John Street, Bath. BA1 2JL.
We are delighted to welcome Michael Malay, Bristol-based author of Late Light, this year’s winner of the Waintwright Prize for Nature Writing. For readers of Robert Macfarlane and Raynor Winn, Late Light is a rich blend of memoir, natural history, nature writing, and a meditation on being and belonging, from a vibrant new voice.
This year our resident nature reader, Katrina, was one of the judges for the Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing, and Late Light has fast become her favourite book of the year. You can find out why by reading her review right here.
We can’t wait to welcome Michael to the shop and we hope you’ll join us for this final event of 2024!
About the book:
This is a book about falling in love with vanishing things.
Late Light is the story of Michael Malay’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.
‘An astonishing read’ – AMY LIPTROT
‘Inspirational’ – THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE
‘A bright, fierce hope for the future’ – THE IRISH TIMES