In 2014 it was won by Helen Macdonalds's H is for Hawk.
Last year, Helen Macdonald's H is for Hawk took the book of the year award.
Helen Macdonald's H is for Hawk (Jonathan Cape) was a worthy winner and a riveting read.
Will the critically-loved H is For Hawk prove to be a dark horse with Christmas buyers?
The Guardian called H is for Hawk a "misery memoir" in the news piece about her win.
With its pages of nostalgic childhood recollection and enchanted description of landscape, The Fish Ladder inevitably invites comparison with Helen Macdonald's bestseller H is for Hawk.
Of course The Goshawk, first published in 1951, is timely because Macdonald wrote so perceptively about it in H is for Hawk.
So elegantly written it is little wonder some say that in Mr Marsh neurosurgery has found its Boswell.H is for Hawk.
One can see how the bird's role as a metaphor for the outsider has multiple significances in H is for Hawk.
Consequently, The Fish Ladder is a wonderful blend of nature writing and memoir that will inevitably draw comparisons to Helen Macdonald's bestseller, H is for Hawk.
