{"id":2939,"date":"2023-08-02T16:40:41","date_gmt":"2023-08-02T15:40:41","guid":{"rendered":".\/\/?p=2939"},"modified":"2023-11-02T16:57:25","modified_gmt":"2023-11-02T16:57:25","slug":"helen-macdonald","status":"publish","type":"post","link":".\/\/helen-macdonald\/","title":{"rendered":"Helen Macdonald"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We\u2019re delighted to announce a new pair of Online Guests for 2023! <a href=\".\/\/sin-blache\/\">Sin Blach\u00e9<\/a> and Helen Macdonald are the co-authors of <em>Prophet<\/em>, an upcoming novel from Vintage (Penguin Random House UK). The novel is Blach\u00e9\u2019s debut.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Helen Macdonald<\/strong> (she\/they) is a writer, poet, naturalist and historian of science. Her book H is for Hawk won many prizes, including the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction, the Costa Book of the Year, the Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger in France, and in the US was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award. She is a frequent contributor to the New York Times Magazine, and lives in Suffolk<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Find her at<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Facebook: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/helenmacdonaldwriter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/helenmacdonaldwriter\/<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Twitter: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HelenJMacdonald\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/HelenJMacdonald<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Read Prophet<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>YOUR HAPPIEST MEMORY IS THEIR DEADLIEST WEAPON.<\/strong><br><strong>THIS IS PROPHET.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It knows when you were happiest. It gives life to your fondest memories and uses them to destroy you. But who has created it? 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