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Told in the vernacular of the day, this novel-as-notebook features a nineteenth-century ornithologist on a remote Irish island--from the author of indie favorite The Gospel of Orla. Field Notes from an Extinction follows the life and work of one Ignatius Green, a fictitious English scientist dispatched by the Royal Society to the remote island of Tor Mor off the northern Irish coast. Green is single-minded and self-righteous, brilliant and bumbling. He is determined to set the record straight on the mating rituals, feeding and care of hatchlings, and other minutiae he can gather about the Great Auk (pinguinus impennis). Green's world is shattered when his monthly goods delivery arrives ravaged by the local Irish townsmen. His fury at their impertinence is matched only by his dismay at finding a small child amid the shipment--dirty, abandoned, mute, feral, and unmanageable. Worse, the locals are growing restless and hungry. And there is talk sweeping the land of a terrifying woman with unnatural power. Green fights for his survival against brigands and hunger and the resolve of a fierce and angry child. And, perhaps, for a wider understanding of family amidst roiling societal unrest.

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Eoghan Walls is a Northern Irish poet. He has lived and worked in Ireland, Britain, Germany, and Rwanda. He won an Eric Gregory Award in 2006, and his poetry has been shortlisted for multiple international awards, including the Bridport Prize, the Manchester Poetry Prize, and the Piggott Prize. He has published the first major translation of Heidegger's poetical works and currently teaches creative writing at Lancaster University. The Gospel of Orla (Seven Stories Press; 2023), his debut novel, was an IndieNext and a Library Reads selection, and was called ""utterly convincing and fresh and original"" by Colm Tóibín. His new novel is Field Notes from an Extinction. John Keating is a prominent New York stage actor who works frequently with both the Irish Rep (twenty-five shows) and Theatre for a New Audience (six shows) in addition to many other companies, and received the Callaway Award in 2019. He has appeared in dozens of films and TV shows and has narrated almost 200 audiobooks (three Audie nominations and one win).

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