Stowaway: the Disreputable Exploits of the Rat by Joe Shute

'Here is a new take on rats, acknowledging the shudder, the revulsion, but enlightening us, asking us to think again. rats, like it or not, are our neighbours. We need to learn about them, how they live and how to live with them. Read this book and you will never look at a rat in the same way again. They are complex like us, intelligent like us. Read this book and you'll shudder no more when you see a rat. That's what I'm telling myself anyway.' MICHAEL MORPURGO, author of War Horse

'Stowaway illuminates the dark corners of this extraordinary mammal's life, so entwined with ours, and finds us wanting. Remarkable and, as I chat to a neighbour about how a rat has chewed into her cottage and stolen her oranges, timely.' NICOLA CHESTER, author of On Gallows Down

'Rats are far from the dirty vermin that we all love to deride; indeed they are acutely intelligent and thoroughly fascinating. Joe Shute eloquently puts us right about the world's most common rodent and throws in some great facts and theories too. DAVID LINDO, author of The Urban Birder