The Latest Breaking News from Gerald Durrell

Meg Mason’s novel about a sad, divorcing festival worker asks: can books save your life?

I sometimes say that My Family and Other Animals – Gerald Durrell’s autobiographical novel from 1956 – saved my life. My mother pressed her dog-eared copy into my hands during a year I was hospitalised repeatedly for major depression.

The Conversation · Aug 3

Rare specimens collected by naturalist Gerald Durrell donated to museum

The donation of more than 550 specimens and samples is now available for scientific research.

Evening Standard · Dec 19, 2025

‘He wouldn’t hurt a fly – literally’: remembering Gerald Durrell at 100

The beloved conservationist, who died in 1995, would have turned 100 today. A new collection, Myself and Other Animals, traces the origins of his lifelong rapture with animals

The Guardian - UK · Jan 7, 2025