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Praise for How to Catch a Mole

“How to Catch a Mole is a beguiling mixture: part autobiography, part handbook, part travel book, part philosophical treatise. I’m happy to report that it succeeds on each level.”

CRAIG BROWN, Mail on Sunday

“Not only a compelling meditation on the ‘little gentleman in black velvet’. . . but also a fascinating, lyrical account of the loneliness and beauty of life on the margins, a memoir of vagrancy.”

TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT

“[How to Catch a Mole] has the feel of an enduring classic. It is the testament of a man who has learnt to see, who has the nerve to interrogate his own annihilation, and who handles language superbly.”

CHARLES FOSTER, Oldie

“How to Catch a Mole is a honey of a book. Hamer is one of the last of Wales’s traditional molecatchers. His narrative parallels his fieldwork, tunneling ever deeper into the natural history of his bounty and into his own conflicted role as their hunter. The result is a sumptuous meditation on beauty, marriage, aging, and a life outdoors.”

KELLY BARTH, Raven Book Store

“For years now, Marc Hamer has slaughtered what most people consider to be furry nuisances for a living. After all, it can’t be all celebration out in nature. There's life. And there's also killing so that other lives can go on. How to Catch a Mole is a book of hard realities that somehow add up to a deep beauty, told in poems, woodcut prints, and to-the-point prose.”

CAT NICHOLS, Bookshop Santa Cruz

“It’s not often you meet a molecatcher, let alone read their story. Marc Hamer’s uplifting writings shed some light on the velvety creatures burrowing beneath our countryside.”

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC TRAVELER