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Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize 2014
Winner of the Costa Book of the Year Award 2014
Winner of the 2014 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction
As a child, Helen Macdonald was determined to become a falconer, learning the arcane terminology and reading all the classic books. Years later, when her father died and she was struck deeply by grief, she became obsessed with the idea of training her own goshawk. She bought Mabel for GBP800 on a Scottish quayside and took her home to Cambridge, ready to embark on the long, strange business of trying to train this wildest of animals.
H is for Hawk is an unflinchingly honest account of Macdonald’s struggle with grief during the difficult process of the hawk’s taming and her own untaming. This is a book about memory, nature and nation, and how it might be possible to reconcile death with life and love.
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Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize 2014
Winner of the Costa Book of the Year Award 2014
Winner of the 2014 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction
As a child, Helen Macdonald was determined to become a falconer, learning the arcane terminology and reading all the classic books. Years later, when her father died and she was struck deeply by grief, she became obsessed with the idea of training her own goshawk. She bought Mabel for GBP800 on a Scottish quayside and took her home to Cambridge, ready to embark on the long, strange business of trying to train this wildest of animals.
H is for Hawk is an unflinchingly honest account of Macdonald’s struggle with grief during the difficult process of the hawk’s taming and her own untaming. This is a book about memory, nature and nation, and how it might be possible to reconcile death with life and love.
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To mark the first 25 years of the century, The New York Times Book Review sent a survey to hundreds of literary luminaries, asking them name the 10 best books published since Jan 1, 2000. They tallied the votes to come up with their list of The 100 Best Books of the 21st Century, and here they are!
On reflection, 2014 was a terrific year for literature. Apart from memorable debuts and soon-to-be celebrated favourites, it was also the most recent time the Booker Prize has been won by an Australian (Richard Flanagan's The Narrow Road to the Deep North) as well as being the peak of the YA boom that swept the pop culture landscape. Below you'll find a selection of great books, many of which are still absolute favourites of our booksellers in 2024, that were first published in 2014.