The Golden Mole

Katherine Rundell is a Fellow of St Catherine’s College, Oxford, and a quondam Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. She is the author of Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne, which won the Baillie Gifford Prize; The Golden Mole and Other Living Treasure, which was shortlisted for both the Waterstones and Foyles Book of the Year awards, and Why You Should Read Children’s Books, Even Though You Are So Old and Wise, all of which were Sunday Times bestsellers. Her award-winning books for children have been translated into more than 30 languages and have sold over two million copies world wide. Her most recent children’s title, Impossible Creatures, was an instant Sunday Times bestseller and winner of the Children’s Book of the Year at the 2024 British Book Awards. She has written for, among others, the London Review of Books, the Times literary Supplement, the New York Review of Books and the New York Times, about books, the natural world and night climbing.