Helen Macdonald (writer)

It was made of pine forests, golf courses, elderly army officers with parade ground voices, Conservative clubs and tea dances.[5] Macdonald has written and narrated several radio programmes, and appeared on television in the BBC Four documentary series, Birds Britannia, in 2010.Macdonald received critical acclaim for H is for Hawk, including the 2014 Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction and the Costa Book Award.[10] The book—which also became a Sunday Times best-seller—describes the year Macdonald spent after the death of their father training a Eurasian goshawk named Mabel, and includes biographical material about the naturalist and writer T. H.[11] Macdonald also helped make the film 10 X Murmuration with filmmaker Sarah Wood as part of a 2015 exhibition at the Brighton Festival.