Audiobooks by Helen MacDonald

"Tras el éxito de H de Halcón, Helen Macdonald y la revelación Sin Blaché se alían en uno de los libros más esperados del año según Time y Bookriot, entre otros. «Estás de enhorabuena. Si te gustan Twin Peaks, Stranger Things o Lost, sin duda te encantará esta novela». Stuart Kelly, The Scotsman «Un auténtico page-turner». Neil Gaiman 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. La crítica ha dicho... «Fabuloso [...]. Un giro a la ciencia ficción moderna en clave de la mejor novela de espías con personajes reales con los que te acabas encariñando. Un auténtico page-turner. Buenísimo». Neil Gaiman «Lo mejor del tecno-noir, la ciencia ficción distópica y el thriller, con una pizca de romance queer. [...] Y, sobre todo, una novela filosófica. [...] ¿Qué es la vida sin misterio? ¿En qué momento la nostalgia cobra tanta fuerza que descarrila nuestras vidas?». Literary Hub «Una novela inmensamente divertida, de excepcional habilidad narrativa y soltura estilística. [...] Sin sacrificar el ritmo, Macdonald y Blaché se las arreglan para incluir poderosas reflexiones sobre la pérdida y el trauma. [...] Esta novela está por encima de los thrillers tecnológicos al uso». Adam Roberts, The Guardian «Un libro de imaginación desbordante y brillante ejecución: ingenioso, escalofriante, exuberante, grotesco y romántico». Booklist «Una colaboración sui generis y bastante maravillosa [...]. Parte ciencia ficción, parte thriller de espías, parte no-sé-cómo-describirlo, [...] lo mejor del libro es la relación dulcemente complicada en el centro de la historia». Sarah Lyall, The New York Times «Prophet ofrece la satisfacción efervescente y perfectamente diseñada de una lata de Coca-Cola, pero con un regusto casi metálico, como si no se pudiera confiar en sus placeres». Sophia Nguyen, The Washington Post «Excelente lectura de evasión con una premisa inmejorable. [...] Una mezcla perfecta de giros inesperados y escenas de alto riesgo que cualquier lector esperaría de un thriller de ciencia ficción, al que se le añade una sólida voz narrativa». Book Riot («Mejor libro del 2023») «Si Twin Peaks, Expediente X y Doctor Who tuvieran un bebé [...], saldría algo muy parecido a esta novela». New York Public Library («Uno de los mejores libros para adultos del 2023») «Un dúo que no te puedes perder». Shelf Awareness"

Helen MacDonald, Sin Blaché (Author), Pablo Ibáñez Durán, Rebeca Hernando (Narrator)

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Prophet

"Brought to you by Penguin. Daring, surprising and superbly plotted, this is a fresh, thrilling page-turner from a dynamic new duo in genre fiction Your happiest memory is their deadliest weapon. THIS IS PROPHET. It knows when you were happiest. It gives life to your fondest memories and uses them to destroy you. But who has created it? And what do they want? An all-American diner appears overnight in a remote British field. It's brightly lit, warm and inviting but it has no power, no water, no connection to the real world. It's like a memory made flesh - a nostalgic flight of fancy. More and more objects materialise: toys, fairground rides, pets and other treasured mementos of the past. And the deaths quickly follow. Something is bringing these memories to life, then stifling innocent people with their own joy. This is a weapon like no other. 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 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. For Prophet can weaponise the past. But only love will protect the future. ©2023 Helen Macdonald & Sin Blaché (P)2023 Penguin Audio"

Helen MacDonald, Sin Blaché (Author), Charlotte Davey, Jake Fairbrother, Ryan Forde Iosco (Narrator)

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Vesper Flights

"Brought to you by Penguin. 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 internationally acclaimed author of H is for Hawk comes Vesper Flights, a transcendent collection of essays about the human relationship to the natural world. In Vesper Flights Helen Macdonald brings together a collection of her best loved pieces, along with new essays on topics and stories ranging from nostalgia and science fiction to the true account of a refugee's flight to the UK. Her pieces ranges from accounts of swan upping on the Thames to watching tens of thousands of cranes in Hungary to seeking the last golden orioles in Suffolk's poplar forests. She writes about wild boar, swifts, mushroom hunting, migraines, the strangeness of birds' nests, what we do when we watch wildlife and why. This is a book about observation, fascination, time, memory, love and loss and how we make the world around us, by one of this century's most important and insightful nature writers. © Helen Macdonald 2020 (P) Penguin Audio 2020"

Helen MacDonald (Author), Helen MacDonald (Narrator)

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H is for Hawk: A BBC2 Between the Covers pick

"Winner of the 2014 Samuel Johnson Prize Shortlisted for the 2014 Costa Biography Award ‘In real life, goshawks resemble sparrowhawks the way leopards resemble housecats. Bigger, yes. But bulkier, bloodier, deadlier, scarier, and much, much harder to see. Birds of deep woodland, not gardens, they’re the birdwatchers’ dark grail.’ As a child Helen Macdonald was determined to become a falconer. She learned the arcane terminology and read all the classic books, including T. H. White’s tortured masterpiece, The Goshawk, which describes White’s struggle to train a hawk as a spiritual contest. When her father dies and she is knocked sideways by grief, she becomes obsessed with the idea of training her own goshawk. She buys Mabel for £800 on a Scottish quayside and takes her home to Cambridge. Then she fills the freezer with hawk food and unplugs the phone, ready to embark on the long, strange business of trying to train this wildest of animals. ‘To train a hawk you must watch it like a hawk, and so gain the ability to predict what it will do next. Eventually you don’t see the hawk’s body language at all. You seem to feel what it feels. The hawk’s apprehension becomes your own. As the days passed and I put myself in the hawk’s wild mind to tame her, my humanity was burning away.’ Destined to be a classic of nature writing, H is for Hawk is a record of a spiritual journey - an unflinchingly honest account of Macdonald's struggle with grief during the difficult process of the hawk's taming and her own untaming. At the same time, it's a kaleidoscopic biography of the brilliant and troubled novelist T. H. White, best known for The Once and Future King. It's a book about memory, nature and nation, and how it might be possible to try to reconcile death with life and love. Narrated by the Author."

Helen MacDonald (Author), Helen MacDonald (Narrator)

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Falcon And The Hawk, The: A BBC Radio 4 dramatisation

"Helen Macdonald is a falconer and poet. She keeps a goshawk called Mabel. As a child she fell in love with a rare book of intense nature writing, J.A. Baker's The Peregrine, which records a winter watching wild peregrines on the Essex coast. Her new play brings her birds and his together. Baker tramps the bleak coastal marshes scanning the skies for fleeting moments of bloody drama as a peregrine stoops at immense speed after a plover or a pigeon. Helen woos her captive-bred goshawk in her spare bedroom - acclimatising it to human noise and human movement. Baker crouches over a half-dead pigeon and finishes it off for the wild falcon; Helen walks the city street with a goshawk on her fist. Their stories begin to fly closer to one another. Starring David Birrell as J. A. Baker, Gemma Lawrence as Young Helen and Helen Macdonald as herself. Part recorded on location at The Bird of Prey Centre in Newent, Gloucestershire. Producer: Tim Dee."

Helen MacDonald (Author), David Birell, Gemma Lawrence, Helen MacDonald (Narrator)

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