Winner of the Samuel Johnson prize, the Costa Biography prize and now the overall Costa Book of the Year, 'H is for Hawk' by Helen Macdonald explores grief, love and nature as well as being a manual on how to train a goshawk. It tells how the Cambridge historian, illustrator and naturalist, overwhelmed by grief following the death of her father, decided to train the most difficult of all birds of prey. Interwoven is a shadow biography of T.H.White along with nature writing, a true mixing of genres.
Read Helen Macdonald's interview with the Guardian
here.
