Vesper Flights by Helen Macdonald

Vesper Flights by Helen Macdonald'Thrilling dispatches from a vanishing world' Observer Animals don't exist to teach us things, but that is what they have always done, and most of what they teach us is what we think we know about ourselves. From the bestselling author of H is for Hawk comes Vesper Flights, a transcendent collection of essays about the human relationship to the natural world. Helen Macdonald brings together a collection of her best loved writing along with new pieces

wonderous space where our most precious memories are stored

but it is a history book for the age of 'post-truth' and 'alternative facts': a book for our own troubled times

it is a guide to a more consoling

From the bestselling author of UNDERLAND

With the threat of Mussolini's army looming

why the fight for the Pacific is just beginning

'I've never read anything quite like Songbirds - a beautifully crafted novel that sits at the intersection of race and class

'Nobber is hallucinatory and sly

'The greatest living writer of short stories in the English language' New Yorker

he survived savage assaults

SHORTLISTED FOR THE AN POST IRISH BOOK AWARDS SUNDAY INDEPENDENT NEWCOMER OF THE YEAR

I walked down the gangway