Tom Lathan is an author and journalist based in the UK.
His first book, Lost Wonders: Ten Tales of Extinction from the 21st Century (Picador), tells the stories of 11 species that have only very recently gone extinct.
Lost Wonders was shortlisted for the Richard Jeffries Prize for Nature Writing and the ZSL/Clarivate Award for Communicating Zoology. It was also named a Best Book of the Year in The Sydney Morning Herald and was part of the Australia Institute’s essential reading list.
Lathan’s writing has also appeared in publications including The Guardian, the Financial Times, The Sunday Times, The Times Literary Supplement and The Wall Street Journal.
Lost Wonders is available now from Picador (Pan Macmillan) in the following territories: