Helen Macdonald

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Helen Macdonald (born 1970) is an English writer, naturalist, and an affiliated research scholar at the University of Cambridge Department of History and Philosophy of Science. They are best known as the author of H is for Hawk, which won the 2014 Samuel Johnson Prize and Costa Book Award; in 2016, it won the Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger in France. Macdonald is the child of British photojournalist Alisdair Macdonald. Macdonald is non-binary and uses she/they pronouns.


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H is for Hawk: A New Chapter

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Released: 2017-10-17

Helen Macdonald's bestseller H Is for Hawk told the story of a grieving daughter who found...

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The River: A Year in the Life of the Tay

as Herself - Presenter
Released: 2019-07-03

Author Helen Macdonald follows Britain’s greatest river over four seasons, encountering salmon,...

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The Hidden Wilds of the Motorway

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Released: 2020-07-20

Author and naturalist Helen Macdonald embarks on a clockwise loop around the M25 to discover if...

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