Bøger af Helen Macdonald

Helen Macdonald har altid vidst, at hun ville være falkoner, når hun blev stor. Som barn lærte hun alt, hvad der var at lære om at træne falke og læste alle de bøger, hun kunne opstøve om emnet. Da Helen Macdonalds far pludselig dør, rammes hun af en lammende sorg. Hun bliver besat af tanken om at træne sin egen duehøg. På en øde kaj i Skotland køber hun Mabel og bringer hende med sig hjem til Cambridge. Hun fylder fryseren med mad til høgen, slukker for sin mobiltelefon og isolerer sig så fuldstændigt for at koncentrere sig om det tålmodighedskrævende og mærkværdige arbejde med at tæmme og træne et vildt dyr. H for høg er en bog om dyr og mennesker, om omsorg, fortvivlelse og forvirring - men også en forbløffende beretning om om arbejdet med at tæmme en af naturens mest uregerlige skabnigner. "En bog som tager vejret fra dig." - New York Times Book Review

Discover the number one bestselling phenomenon that is a powerful and profound mediation on grief expressed through the trials of training a goshawk. As a child, Helen Macdonald was determined to become a falconer, learning the arcane terminology and reading all the classic books.

Le premiade autore de H de halcón y le escritore revelación Sin Blaché coescriben «un auténtico page-turner» (Neil Gaiman) de «imaginación desbordante y brillante ejecución» (Booklist) que ha sido proclamado como uno de los mejores libros del año según Time, Literary Hub, ShelfAwareness, Book Riot, BookPage, entre otros. «Estás de enhorabuena. Si te gustan Twin Peaks, Stranger Things o Lost, sin duda te encantará esta novela».-Stuart Kelly, The Scotsman Nadie sabe qué es Prophet, pero su poder es evidente: conoce tus secretos más profundos y da vida a tus recuerdos más íntimos. Esta misteriosa y cambiante sustancia ha sido creada por una organización internacional para controlar a la población: una sola inyección induce un trance mortal del que ya no se puede salir. La memoria personal es ahora un arma mortífera. Adam y Rao, dos exagentes especiales, se lanzan a la caza de Prophet en un viaje que los llevará del secretismo de laboratorios militares a adentrarse en la América más opulenta, en el desolador desierto de Nevada y, finalmente, en sus propios recuerdos, donde reside la clave para ponerle freno. Una emocionante exploración del poder de la nostalgia, la identidad y el amor que trasciende todos los géneros. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION From the extraordinary minds of award-winning and New York Times-bestselling author of H Is for Hawk, Helen Macdonald and first-time author Sin Blaché, Prophet is their electric debut, a tantalizing adventure fusing noir, sci-fi and a slow burn queer romance―set in a universe just one perilous step from our own. Adam Rubenstein and Sunil Rao have been reluctant partners since their Uzbekistan days. Adam is a seemingly unflappable American Intelligence officer and Rao is an ex-MI6 agent, an addict and rudderless pleasure hound, with the uncanny ability to discern the truth of things―about everyone and everything other than Adam. When an American diner turns up in a foggy field in the UK after a mysterious death, Adam and Rao are called in to investigate, setting into motion the most dangerous and otherworldly mission of their lives. In a surreal, action-packed quest that takes Adam and Rao from secret laboratories in Colorado, to a luxury lodge in Aspen, to the remote Nevada desert, the pair begins to uncover how and why people's fondest memories are being weaponized against them by a spooky, ever-shifting substance called Prophet. As the unlikely twosome battles this strange new reality, Prophet's victims' memories are materializing in increasingly bizarre forms: favorite games, beloved pets, fairground rides, each more malevolent than the next. Prophet is like no enemy Adam and Rao - or the world - have ever come up against. A tension-shot odd-couple romance, an unflinching send-up of corporate corruption, and a genre-bending tour de force, Prophet is a triumph of storytelling by a new writing duo with a thrilling future.

I would like to thank everyone who helped to publish this book and especially thank my sister Ann Macdonald for motivating me to write this book. Thank you!

YOUR HAPPIEST MEMORY IS THEIR DEADLIEST WEAPON. 'Fabulous... Present-day science fiction that feels like the best sort of spy novel' NEIL GAIMAN, author of CoralineThis is Prophet. It knows when you were happiest. It gives life to your fondest memories and uses them to destroy you... An all-American diner appears overnight in a remote British field. And the deaths quickly follow. A weapon like no other - Prophet - is targeting innocent people. But nobody knows who created it, or why. Sunil Rao seems a surprising choice of investigator. Chaotic and unpredictable, the former agent is the antithesis of his partner Lieutenant Colonel Adam Rubenstein, the model of a military man. But Sunil has the unique ability to distinguish truth from lies in objects, words and people, in the past and in real time. And Adam is the only one who truly knows him, after a troubled past together. Now, as they battle this strange new reality, they are drawn closer than ever to defend what they both hold most dear. Prophet can weaponise the past. But only love will protect the future. 'Prophet is a blast'SUNDAY TIMES'A thrilling dystopian novel'TIME***A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR***

Before Helen Macdonald rose to international acclaim with her "beautiful and nearly feral" (New York Times) bestselling memoir H Is for Hawk, she wrote a collection of poetry, Shaler's Fish.In robust, lyrical verse, Shaler's Fish roams both the outer and inner landscapes of the poet's universe, seamlessly fusing reflections on language, science, and literature, with the loamy environments of the natural worlds around her. Moving between the epic—war, history, art, myth, philosophy—and the specific—CNN, Ancient Rome, Auden, Merleau-Ponty—Macdonald examines with humor and intellect what it means to be awake and watchful in the world. These are poems that probe and question, within whose nimble ecosystems we are as likely to encounter Schubert as we are "a hand of violets," Isaac Newton as a "winged quail on turf." Nothing escapes Macdonald's eye and every creature herein—from the smallest bird to the loftiest thinker—holds a significant place in her poems.This is an unparalleled collection from one of greatest nature writers, and a poet of dazzling music and vision.

The hawk was everything I wanted to be: solitary, self-possessed, free from grief, and numb to the hurts of human life. How do we carry on when someone close to us dies?

Cassiano dal Pozzo, (1588-1657) now celebrated as one of the most important art patrons in Italy of the seventeenth century, commissioned a number of exquisite studies of birds as part of his famous `Paper Museum¿. In 1622 the lawyer and ornithologist Giovanni Pietro Olina used these drawings which are now kept in the Royal Library at Windsor Castle, as the basis for the illustrations in his Uccelliera . Pasta for Nightingales combines Cassiano¿s original artwork with selections from the first English translation of Olinäs text. It includes such enchanting insights as the idea that robins were epileptic, or suffered from dizziness, and that the hoopoe overindulged in grapes until it became `dazed and half-drunk.¿ However it also includes much fascinating early natural history and ornithological observation - as well as the secret recipe for pasta to keep your nightingale happy and encourage it to sing. A unique celebration of the beginnings of ornithology, designed in sympathy with the character of the 17th- century original.

Contains many fascinating facts about the world's fastest animal, including falcons in secret military projects and espionage; falcons nesting in the middle of cities; the history of the race to save the peregrine; and the colourful sport of falconry.

What should happen to the dead? Bone collecting, body snatching and the politics of the trade in human remains is a gothic tale that still haunts contemporary life. Human Remains tells the story of how medical men obtained the corpses upon which they worked before anatomy was regulated in Australia and Britain.

London, 1868: visiting Australian Aboriginal cricketer Charles Rose has died in Guy's Hospital. His body did not go directly to a grave. Possessing the Dead explores the disturbing history of the cadaver trade in Scotland, England and Australia, where laws once gave certain officials possession of the dead, and brings to life this gruesome past.