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Katherine Rundell has dazzled millions of readers globally with her writing on fantastical beasts. In her bestselling book The Golden Mole, she profiled some of the world’s most extraordinary endangered animals, including pangolins, wombats, lemurs and seahorses. This critically acclaimed compendium celebrated the earth’s greatest wonders, and offered a rallying call to prevent their extinction.
This autumn Rundell joins us live on stage at Conway Hall to discuss a new menagerie of spectacular creatures. Rundell will draw on her new book, Napoleon’s Orangutan, to introduce us to twelve vanishing, amazing animals – from Napoleon’s pet orangutan to pigs who can learn the difference between Bach and a brass band.
Join Rundell on October 7 to explore a new catalogue of curiosities, have your book signed, and ask your questions in the audience Q&A.
(And in case you missed the news, Queen Camilla has announced that she will gift copies of Rundell’s Impossible Creatures to every Year 6 child this Christmas, as part of the Queen’s literacy campaign).
Praise for Katherine Rundell
‘Rundell is the real deal, a writer of boundless gifts and extraordinary imaginative power.’ Observer
‘It is among my proudest boasts that I was a massive Rundell fan before she became a national treasure.’ Dan Snow
Napoleon's Orangutan: A collection of miraculous creatures (Hardback)
by Napoleon's Orangutan: A collection of miraculous creatures (Hardback) Katherine Rundell
| Katherine Rundell is a bestselling writer and a Fellow of St Catherine's College, Oxford. Her books, including The Golden Mole, Super-Infinite, and Impossible Creatures for children, have sold millions of copies, and have been translated into 40 languages. She is the recipient of the Baillie Gifford Prize for non-fiction, the Boston Globe Horn Book Award, the Waterstones Book of the Year, the Costa Children's Book Award, the Andersen Prize in Italy and Le Prix Sorcières in France, among many others. Her new book is Napoleon’s Orangutan. |
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