Books by Helen Macdonald
“Prophet is the first one on my list because I just think it’s so extraordinary…It opens with the most wonderful scene: an American diner has appeared in a field in the south of England overnight, for no apparent reason. Two people who are involved with the CIA are brought over from a nearby American airbase in order to investigate what this might be; they think it might be something to do with the airbase, but they’ve honestly got no idea. And when they come close to the diner, they realise that it’s not a real diner – it looks like one but there’s stuff in it that doesn’t work, everything looks a little bit wrong. After this instance, other things start appearing all over the place: objects, places, even animals. And it’s really intriguing. But what’s really wonderful about it are the two main characters. One of them is a very austere ex-soldier type, who uses words like ‘sub-optimal’. The other one has what he cheerfully describes as a ‘terrorist beard’, and gets into fights for fun, and is on an amazing rainbow of drugs.” Read more...
The Best Sci-Fi Romance Novels
Natasha Pulley, Novelist
Vesper Flights
by Helen Macdonald (author and narrator)
Vesper Flights is a collection of essays by Helen Macdonald, author of the internationally acclaimed memoir H is for Hawk (winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction, the Costa Book of the Year, the Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger, and shortlisted for a National Book Critics Circle Award).
H is for Hawk
by Helen Macdonald
It’s not an exaggeration to say that H is for Hawk, published in 2014, is already a classic of nature writing. In the audiobook, author Helen MacDonald narrates her touching memoir.
Narrator: Helen MacDonald
Length: 11 hours and 5 minutes
Interviews where books by Helen Macdonald were recommended
The best books on Predators, recommended by Nick Pyenson
The predators that stalked our ancestors have been marginalised to the brink of extinction, but these animals still fill us with awe, says Nick Pyenson. They play a vital role in life on Earth, and we need to understand them if we are to survive.
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Wild Child: Coming Home to Nature
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English Pastoral: An Inheritance
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Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
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The Flip: Epiphanies of Mind and the Future of Knowledge
by Jeffrey J Kripal -
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Vesper Flights
by Helen Macdonald (author and narrator)
The Best Nature Books of 2020, recommended by Charles Foster
The Best Nature Books of 2020, recommended by Charles Foster
Charles Foster—the barrister, ethicist and bestselling author of Being a Beast—selects five brilliant nature books that reflect a new boom in nature writing in 2020, many of which ask us to examine more closely the interconnectedness of all things.
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Vesper Flights
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The Sandman
by Dirk Maggs (audiobook adaptation), Full Cast & Neil Gaiman -
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The Pull of the Stars: A Novel
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The Searcher: A Novel
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A Most Beautiful Thing: The True Story of America's First All-Black High School Rowing Team
by Adam Lazarre-White (narrator) & Arshay Cooper
The Best Audiobooks of 2020, recommended by Robin Whitten
The Best Audiobooks of 2020, recommended by Robin Whitten
With most people carrying smartphones these days, entering the world of audiobooks has never been easier. Some are straightforward narrations of a book, but when an audiobook is done well, it can be an extraordinary, all-encompassing experience. Here Robin Whitten, editor of AudioFile magazine—the best resource for finding good quality audiobooks on the web, in our view—talks us through her picks for the best audiobooks of 2020, chosen from the hundreds they’ve reviewed over the course of the year.
The Best Sci-Fi Romance Novels, recommended by Natasha Pulley
Sci fi opens up new possibilities for romance stories, unconstrained by social reality. It’s an exciting time for the genre, says Natasha Pulley, bestselling author of The Mars House. Through her five contemporary favourites, she explores how human emotion – including romantic love and friendship – elevates the best sci-fi novels, creating stories with realism and depth.
