How to Catch a Mole

Longlisted for the Wainwright Book Prize 2019

A calming, life-affirming book about the British countryside, the cycle of nature, solitude and contentment, by a brilliant new nature writer who spent time homeless as a young man, sleeping in the hedgerows he now knows so well.

Although common, moles are mysterious: their habits are inscrutable, they are anatomically bizarre, and they live completely ...