"Cold Blood shows us how much is to be gained from studying nature. A book that persuades anyone to try sampling life at first-hand rather than at second is much to be welcomed’" (Steve Jones Sunday Telegraph)
"In prose as effortless as a snake's progress, Richard Kerridge has written a wry, wise and refreshingly understated memoir" (Patrick Barkham Guardian)
"Cold Blood casts an unexpected but beautiful love-light across ordinary England, and its uncaring reptiles and amphibians" (Tim Dee Observer)
"Subtle and meditative, lyrical and passionate" (Gavin Francis)
"Simply wonderful…the natural history book I have been waiting for" (Brett Westwood)
"A mix of memoir, science writing and humn to nature, this will propel Kerridge into the pantheon of great 21st-century nature writers. He tells the story of his fascination with reptiles and explains what it is to be cold blooded." (Patrick Neale The Bookseller)
"[A] perceptive memoir...Cold Blood is proof that an early infatuation with the natural world can lead to a lifetime of wonder" (Barbara Kiser nature)
"Perceptive and original... Kerridge writes vividly of the natural world" (Gerard Henderson Daily Express)
"As a memoir, Cold Blood has the feel of a minor classic. It is exquisite. As a piece of nature writing, it is also rich, subtle and shot through with quiet passion" (James McConnachie Sunday Times)
"[A] perceptive memoir... Cold Blood is proof that an early infatuation with the natural world can lead to a lifetime of wonder" (Pete Dommett BBC Wildlife)
