Impossible Creatures

Katherine Rundell's writing has always been stunning – pointed, graceful, full of wit and wonder. Here she is at her best. As a writer, it's a privilege to read a master of the craft at work; as a reader, it's a sheer act of joy.

We read for many different reasons: to be entertained, to learn about the world, to walk in another person’s shoes. When I’m having an overwhelmingly stressful time, I want to escape into a book – as if I’d opened the cover and stepped inside. Impossible Creatures was the perfect choice for an escape.

Katherine Rundell’s exquisite writing spans children’s fiction, academia, and non-fiction. In her first book of fantasy, we enter a world both familiar and strange – familiar to us because the titular ‘impossible creatures’ who populate the world are the stuff of myth and legend – and strange… show more.