Lost Wonders: 10 Tales of Extinction from the 21st Century by Tom Lathan #literature This honest and frequently hilarious

This honest and frequently hilarious memoir is written in honour of that challenge

Anthony Grafton's wonderfully original book discusses the careers of men who somehow managed to be both figures of startling genius and - by some measures - credulous or worse

Yoko shares personal stories from her childhood and experiences growing and fermenting vegetables in Australia

despite the wartime shortages: with Elva's map of the hotel and Anthony's prop weapons to use as clues

Lost Wonders: 10 Tales of Extinction from the 21st Century by Tom Lathan #literature This honest and frequently hilariousShortlisted for the Richard Jefferies award for nature writing. In Lost Wonders Tom Lathan tells ten powerful stories of species that have lived, died out and been declared extinct since the turn of the twenty first century. 'Timely, elegiac' The Daily Mail 'Superb storytelling . . . an exhilarating and vital book' Charles Foster, author of Cry of the Wild Lost Wonders is a series of fascinating encounters with subjects that are now nowhere to be