ARGONAUT BOOKS

The Gospel of the Eels is both a meditation on the world's most elusive fish-the eel-and a reflection on the human condition. Reviews The best mysteries are those science hasn't yet cracked, and top of the list comes the sex life of eels.The Times - Melanie ReidExtraordinary . . . Such is his skill that the echoes and parallels he finds never seem stretched. It's as if the eel's mysteriousness is snaking out, beyond its extraordinary life cycle and uncanny ability to confound scientists, and into the writing.ObserverThis beguiling book . . . completely won me over to these a...Read More