From the bestselling author of H is for Hawk comes a transcendent collection of essays about the natural world ‘Thrilling dispatches from a vanishing world’ Observer Animals don’t exist to…

H is for Hawk recounts how the Helen Macdonald, an experienced falconer grieving the sudden death of her father, endeavored to train for the first time a dangerous goshawk predator…

From the New York Times bestselling author of H is for Hawk and winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize for nonfiction, comes a transcendent collection of essays about the human…

Looks particularly at the activities of British surgeons in nineteenth-century Van Diemen’s Land, a penal colony in which a ready supply of bodies was available. This book tells a story…

H Is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald: Conversation Starters

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EVERY GOOD BOOK CONTAINS A WORLD FAR DEEPER than the surface of its pages. The characters and…

Drawing on ethnographic case studies the volume considers the relationship between global and national policies and their unintended effects, the emergence and impact of introducing new diagnostics, and the impact…

A new edition of a classic Overcoming title that helps you find ways to live well despite long term pain issues, using techniques from CBT.

The value of touch and object handling in museums is little understood, despite the overwhelming weight of anecdotal evidence which confirms the benefits of physical interaction with objects.