How to capture (the type of) prelude exceptions?

Question

Say I do the following from ghci:

   Prelude Control.Exception Data.Typeable> let a = read "A" :: Int
   Prelude Control.Exception Data.Typeable> a
   *** Exception: Prelude.read: no parse

Great! Now I just need to somehow know the type (and the module) of this exception to write an exception handler. Is there any way to get said type and module?

Answer 1

Built upon Daniel Wagner's answer:

import Control.Exception
import Data.Typeable

whichException :: IO a -> IO ()
whichException act = do
  e <- try act
  case e of
    Left (SomeException ex) -> print $ typeOf ex
    _                       -> putStrLn "No exception occurred"

-- Usage:
-- > whichException (evaluate (read "A"::Int))
-- ErrorCall