Felled

‘A terrific book … it’s fantastic … I love the way he comes at a subject. It’s journalism, it’s memoir and it’s beyond that … I don’t think anybody else could write this’ – Richard Herring
‘A great idea for a book’ – Adrian Chiles * BBC Radio 5 Live *
‘[Hankinson’s] a haunting long-form feature writer. The whole piece is an eerie and compelling telling of how these two misfit loners with a chainsaw – as well as the author trying to understand them – are both a little lost’ * The Critic *
’[Felled] is about the two men who destroyed the sycamore tree but it’s bigger than that, it’s about loss, it’s about grief and it’s about men who have somehow failed … it’s incredibly compelling, he’s such a good writer’ – Jason Hazeley * Oh God, What Now *
‘Hankinson is a great chronicler of madness. A writer on a par with the true crime godhead Gordon Burn … His reporting is sharp and insightful … his snark is poised and judicious’ – Sarah Ditum * The Times *
‘Like Gordon Burn and David Peace before him, Hankinson finds a metaphor for the marginalisation of the English North and its subjects – himself included – in one of the darkest, strangest, most tragi-comic episodes in recent memory. But his clipped, contemporary prose style is all his own. This is a true crime masterpiece for the twenty-first century: sensitive to the absurdities of its narrative, alive to the anxieties of the age, and in the end more addictive than doomscrolling’ – Alex Niven, author of New Model Island and The North Will Rise Again
‘Andrew Hankinson is a brilliantly singular voice capable of getting to the heart of real-life subjects in original ways most writers are simply incapable of. Felled may be about Sycamore Gap but like the concentric lines in a severed trunk it tells a hidden and much more deeply rooted story: that of men, class, justice, loneliness, The North and much more besides. Give him all the prizes please’ – Benjamin Myers, author of The Gallows Pole
‘Brilliant. Honest, humane and profound. Andrew Hankinson is a fantastic writer. Nobody else could tell the story of a tree in a way that so reveals something about us all’ – David Whitehouse, author of About a Son
‘Read this in a single sitting and I think I need a bit of thinking time now. Raw and stark and baffled by the hollow, tinny strangeness of it all. Basically another unflinching study of male desperation to put alongside his other books. Really bastard good’ – Joel Morris
‘Agonising, profound and beautiful, Hankinson has written an unforgettable book about what failure does to men’ – Will Storr, author of The Science of Storytelling

Andrew Hankinson is an award-winning author and journalist. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Sunday Times, FT, The Guardian, The Telegraph, GQ, Esquire, The Spectator, and Wired.

He is the author of two previous books: the CWA Gold Dagger-winning You Could Do Something Amazing With Your Life [You Are Raoul Moat] and Don’t Applaud. Either Laugh or Don’t. (At the Comedy Cellar.).

He lives in Newcastle upon Tyne.

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