CREDITON’S award-winning independent community owned bookshop, The Bookery, is continuing its evening Author Events on March 6 at 7pm, welcoming the award-winning author Dr Michael Malay, who will be providing a presentation based on his new book “Late Light” and will be joined in conversation by Alison Sweatman.

Michael is the winner of the Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing 2024 and winner of the Richard Jefferies Award for Nature Writing 2023.

“Late Light” is a beautifully written examination of the state of the English countryside through the close regard of four of its creatures – eels, moths, freshwater mussels and crickets – and discusses a new way of living with our animal neighbours. 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.

It is also 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 teacher based in Bristol. He spent his early years in Jakarta, Indonesia, before moving to Australia with his family at the age of 10. “Late Light” is his first book.

Tickets are £4, redeemable against a book purchased on the evening. Michael will be signing copies of his book at the end of the evening.

Book your ticket at the Bookshop or via The Bookery website: www.thebookery.org.uk .