The winner of the Richard Jefferies award for nature writing, 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.
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 ten. Late Light is his first book.