Oates ... writes entrancingly, with the sunniest good humour. His book, with its old-school, loving erudition, is nature-writing of the sort that never goes out of fashion.

The Sunday Times

This book is an infectious, instantly joyful love song to butterflies ... Written in prose as delicate and enticing as the creatures themselves, this read will release your inner flutter

Miriam Darlington, BBC Wildlife

A joy to read, bubbling with knowledge, enthusiasm and insight.

Robert Macfarlane

... a memoir which is knowledgeable, cultured and a welcome throwback to a gently comic kind of English nature writing.

The Independent

Oates is unquestionably authentic and his voice is vivid, witty and unapologetic ... his writing is suffused with a love for the spirit of the English countryside.

The Guardian

Lyrical, eccentric, charming and historical, In Pursuit of Butterflies is altogether unique.

Butterfly magazine