H Is for Hawk

One of the New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of the Year

One of Slate's 50 Best Nonfiction Books of the Last 25 Years

ON MORE THAN 25 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR LISTS: including TIME (#1 Nonfiction Book), NPR, O, The Oprah Magazine (10 Favorite Books), Vogue (Top 10), Vanity Fair, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Seattle Times, San Francisco Chronicle (Top 10), Miami Herald, St. Louis Post Dispatch, Minneapolis Star Tribune (Top 10), Library Journal (Top 10), Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, Slate, Shelf Awareness, Book Riot, Amazon (Top 20)

The instant New York Times bestseller and award-winning sensation, Helen Macdonald's story of adopting and raising one of nature's most vicious predators has soared into the hearts of millions of readers worldwide. Fierce and feral, her goshawk Mabel's temperament mirrors Helen's own state of grief after her father's death, and together raptor and human discover the pain and beauty of being alive (People). H Is for Hawk is a genre-defying debut from one of our most unique and transcendent voices.

Author: Helen MacDonald
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: 03/03/2015
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.90w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9780802123411


Award: Costa Book Awards - Winner
Award: Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence - Finalist
Award: National Book Critics Circle Award - Finalist
Award: Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction - Winner
Award: Kirkus Prize - Finalist
Award: National Outdoor Book Awards - Honorable Mention
Award: Costa Book Awards - Winner


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 10/15/2014 pg. 67
Publishers Weekly 10/27/2014
Kirkus Reviews 11/15/2014
Library Journal 10/15/2014 pg. 67
Entertainment Weekly 12/26/2014 pg. 89
Booklist 02/15/2015 pg. 27
New York Times Book Review 02/22/2015 pg. 1
Shelf Awareness 03/06/2015
New York Times Book Review 03/08/2015 pg. 30
Entertainment Weekly 03/06/2015 pg. 71
People 03/09/2015 pg. 52
New York Times Book Review 03/01/2015 pg. 26
New Yorker (The) 03/09/2015 pg. 90
New York Review of Books 04/23/2015 pg. 32
Publishers Weekly Best Books 11/02/2015 pg. 43
NY Times Notable Bks of Year 12/06/2015 pg. 28
Shelf Awareness 12/11/2015
Kirkus Best Nonfiction 12/01/2015 pg. 31
New York Times Book Review 12/13/2015 pg. 12
Booklist Editors Choice/Adult 01/01/2016 pg. 7

About the Author
Helen Macdonald is a writer, poet, illustrator and naturalist, and an affiliated research scholar at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge. She is the author of the bestselling H Is for Hawk, as well as a cultural history of falcons, titled Falcon, and three collections of poetry, including Shaler's Fish. Macdonald was a Research Fellow at Jesus College, Cambridge, has worked as a professional falconer, and has assisted with the management of raptor research and conservation projects across Eurasia. She now writes for the New York Times Magazine. Twitter: @HelenJMacdonald