Happy to announce that my next book will be published by @batsfordbooks.bsky.social in spring 2028. I'm excited to be writing for an audience beyond academia! Most grateful to my agent @jmlockhart.bsky.social for helping me get to this point.

The UK paperback of LIFELINES is out tomorrow, but I'm also so deeply thrilled and honoured to share that it's Waterstones Non-Fiction Book of the Month for July! Huge thanks to @waterstones.bsky.social for the selection and to @eandtbooks.bsky.social for believing in this book from the beginning.

Colin Bramwell’s FOWER PESSOAS has won the 2025 Duas Leabhair na Gàidhealtacht / Highland Book Prize “Colin Bramwell puts all four of [Fernando] Pessoa’s heteronyms into a present-day Scots-language vernacular, & so creates a parochial Pessoa for our own times” www.highlandbookprize.org.uk/winner/

Stunning etchings by Leeds born artist Norman Ackroyd. Exhibition of his work is on in Bath. #art #Yorkshire www.victoriagal.org.uk/event/norman...

So elated and honoured to have LIFELINES win the @anglohellenic.bsky.social Runciman Award 2026 this week. With immense thanks to the judges for selecting it - and to my brilliant publisher, @eandtbooks.bsky.social, who believed in this book from the beginning. www.ekathimerini.com/culture/1306...

Lifelines: Searching for Home in the Mountains of Greece by Julian Hoffman (@eandtbooks.bsky.social) has been awarded The Anglo-Hellenic League’s Runciman Award 2026. 👇

The Flow Country — where nothingness is something very special... @steverutt.bsky.social speaks to @thetimes.com about The Flow Country, a vast bog in the far northeast of #Scotland where the plants have turned predator and the soil is less solid than milk: www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/...

🥂 Huge congratulations to @julianhoffman.bsky.social who last night accepted the @anglohellenic.bsky.social Runciman Award 2026 for his life-affirming memoir, #Lifelines: Searching for Home in the Mountains of Greece 🎊 Pre-order the paperback edition @waterstones.bsky.social: bit.ly/49QNooM

On the #ScotlandOutdoors podcast, @steverutt.bsky.social discusses the journey of a single raindrop through Britain's diverse waterscapes: from upland moors and spectacular lochs to saltmarsh-flanked firths and estuaries: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... Stephen Rutt's #TheWaterlands is out now!

Delighted to say that the North American edition of LIFELINES is now published! With immense thanks to the wonderful team at Godine and to Nicole Caputo for the fabulous cover. Now available at all your favourite bookstores across Canada and the United States! bookshop.org/p/books/life...

Such a pleasure talking about the Greek mountains, the Prespa lakes and the unique Aoos-Vjosa river system spanning Greece and Albania for the brilliant Mountain Stories, Mountain Futures podcast. @mountainsofgreece.bsky.social @futuremountain.bsky.social msmf.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2026/05/13/l...

In this extract from #TheWaterlands, @steverutt.bsky.social reflects on an incident that left him unable to swim, yet deeply drawn to water throughout his life: booksfromscotland.com/2026/04/the-...

Honoured to write a chapter for FUTURE RURAL, a new book out this week to mark CPRE's centenary My chapter, 'In defence of scrub', is about Britain's most unfairly maligned habitat. Derided by pundits & politicians, it's in fact a gorgeous home for wildlife... www.littletoller.co.uk/shop/books/l...

The spirit of place has always been my great fascination as a writer so it's an especial honour to see LIFELINES longlisted for the Ondaatje Prize, which celebrates place in all its countless, extraordinary and vital forms. Immense congratulations to all - honoured to be in such incredible company!

We are so pleased to share that #Lifelines by @julianhoffman.bsky.social has been longlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize! Congratulations to Julian and the other longlisted authors! 🎉

#TheWaterlands by @steverutt.bsky.social is... 'A wonderful piece of natural storytelling.' ROGER MORGAN-GRENVILLE ‘A lucid, passionate and moving book.’ HELEN JUKES ‘A kaleidoscopic tumult of aquatic wonders.’ DAN RICHARDS Get your copy here bit.ly/4ccwQJk

Deeply honoured to be in such amazing company on the Anglo-Hellenic League Runciman Award shortlist! Given annually for a book in English inspired by Greek culture and history, this is the 40th anniversary of the prize @anglohellenic.bsky.social www.anglohellenicleague.org/news/1q3q33h...

'It is why learning even a little about small boats can reveal so much about the world, and why looking carefully at a boat is a journey deep into a localised culture and its seafarers' dreams.' A wonderful new book by David Gange, published 23rd April by William Collins.

Latest edition of Archipelago, just published by Clutag Press: www.clutagpress.com is a lovely thing.

Stories from the earth, sea and skies — @financialtimes.com pick four of the best new books on the environment - including @steverutt.bsky.social's new book #TheWaterlands! www.ft.com/content/83ef... #wetlands #bogs #conservation #WaterCycle #NonFiction #marsh #nature #NatureBooks

Publication day 🎉 If you've ever wondered if maybe your local environment could use a little more greenery, or some exciting urban wildlife, pick up one of these, and take a glimpse into real projects from around the world that show just how much is possible! 🌳🦊🦜🦋🏢

💧Happy publication day to #TheWaterlands by @steverutt.bsky.social! Follow a raindrop as it flows through diverse waterscapes: river sources, saltmarsh-flanked firths and estuaries, spectacular lochs, crystal-clear chalk streams, blanket bogs and more. bit.ly/4dbmYka #NatureWriting #wetlands

‘Stephen Rutt’s exploration of Britain’s waterlands combines clear-eyed scientific writing with just the right amount of epiphanic prose ... I find it impossible not to feel wonder at such facts.’ @scotsman.com Out tomorrow!💧 #TheWaterlands by @steverutt.bsky.social: bit.ly/4bKfqSN

VICTORY! Government to open up the Land Registry - bringing to an end a thousand years of secrecy shrouding who owns England. I’ve been campaigning for this for ten years: the new Land Use Framework, published later today, makes it government policy. 1/ www.theguardian.com/environment/...

It was an honour to give a talk at Oxford University’s Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery last night, with the title ‘Ill Fares the Land? Holding large landowners to account for nature destruction & restoration’ Huge thanks to @ymalhi.bsky.social for inviting me! bookwhen.com/oxfordbiodiv...

Happy #WorldBookDay! We are thrilled on this special day to be publishing Gwyneth Lewis's memoir 'Nightshade Mother: A Disentangling' in paperback! Order now from your favourite local bookshop or through the link below. 📚 www.uwp.co.uk/book/nightsh...

💧‘It falls in a moment. When the heaviest droplets of ice can no longer be held, the first slips from the sky and plunges, down through the damp, cold air, thawing as it falls. Once one slips, the others come. The earth inhaling rain, again.’ 📕 #TheWaterlands by @steverutt.bsky.social, out 26 March

"The quiet revolution that both books will further charge is of potentially planet-changing importance." Super-proud of this joint review of my book The Lie of the Land and @righttoroam.bsky.social's Wild Service, in the Journal of Historical Geography (£): www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Happy publication day to Jim Crumley and Symphonic 🍃 Renowned nature writer Jim Crumley draws on more than six decades of immersion in wild landscapes to explore the profound harmony at the heart of the natural world and why it matters now more than ever 🍃 saraband.net/sb-title/sym... #Booksky 📚💙

Coming soon in paperback! 'Nightshade Mother: A Disentangling' by Gwyneth Lewis will be available in paperback on 5 March 📚 Pre-order now through the link below or in your favourite local bookshop! www.uwp.co.uk/book/nightsh...

Looking forward to reading #TheWaterlands? Close your eyes and immerse yourself in Britain's watery landscapes with author @steverutt.bsky.social's playlist on Spotify: 🎧https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1ib6U5Mayp8LuXk4BdFLTY?si=37ZlSZiqSrOfKeeaKLHz-g&pi=ZJglFI8ARkCiA&nd=1&dlsi=f7a09a9f067841dc

I have some hot compost news

Canongate has acquired world rights to Fraser MacDonald's The Book of Compost: A Manual for Consolation and Repair 👇 #BookSky

Happy paperback publication day to Merlin Hanbury-Tenison, whose acclaimed book Our Oaken Bones is published today by Ebury Witness.

It seems like only yesterday that LIFELINES was out in hardback but with the first signs of spring appearing here in northern Greece it means the paperback is already on its way. And Waterstones is offering 25% off from today until Friday for online pre-orders! www.waterstones.com/book/lifelin...

The longlist for the 2025 Duais Leabhair na Gàidhealtachd | Highland Book Prize has been announced. The Prize celebrates the talent, landscape, & cultural diversity of the Scottish Highlands & is open to works of fiction, non-fiction, & poetry 💙📚 www.highlandbookprize.org.uk/longlist/

How beautiful is the paperback of #MotherAnimal? When @helenjukes.bsky.social becomes pregnant, she finds that the pregnancy manuals feel hollow; the well-meaning advice of friends oddly suffocating. So she looks beyond humans to the animal kingdom, to reimagine what it means to be a mother today.

Excited that the North American edition of LIFELINES went to the printers today! Publishing on April 14, it's available to pre-order from your favourite bookstores in Canada and the US now. So grateful for the generous quotes, incl from brilliant @ziyatong.bsky.social! bookshop.org/p/books/life...

🥂 Congratulations to @julianhoffman.bsky.social, whose beautiful memoir #Lifelines: Searching for Home in the Mountains of Greece has been longlisted for the Anglo-Hellenic League Runciman Award! #NatureWriting #Conservation #memoir #NonFiction #Awards #TravelWriting #Travel #Greece

"Polymathic in the best sense.” Almost tripped over my cor-blimey trousers when I learned this morning from this very kind article by John Mitchenson that I am a Zeitgeister. The editor spells my name wrong two out of three times in the first paragraph subscribe.bylinetimes.com/edition/81/z...

Pleased to share that I've written a chapter for FUTURE RURAL, a new book out in April 2026 to mark @cprecountryside.bsky.social's centenary Other authors include @amyjanebeer.bsky.social @nicolawriting.bsky.social @maryannochota.bsky.social Pre-order here: www.littletoller.co.uk/shop/books/l...

Looking forward to speaking with the wonderful Lucy Durneen about LIFELINES for Cambridge University on Tues Dec 16th, 7pm UK. It's online, free & open to all. And I've been asked to talk about bears in case anyone needs a pre-Christmas ursine fix! Registration ⬇️ www.pace.cam.ac.uk/events/2025/...

Wonderful to hear Gwyneth Lewis on Radio 4' A Good Read! Follow the link below to discover the author of 'Nightshade Mother's favourite books 📚

Wonderful to finally meet up with Julian Hoffman @julianhoffman.bsky.social at the Kendal Mountain Festival yesterday where he was interviewed by local author Kate Rawles, and gave an inspiring talk about his latest book ‘Lifelines’. Thanks Julian.

Introducing... #TheWaterlands by @steverutt.bsky.social, a captivating retelling of the water cycle. Follow a raindrop as it flows through diverse waterscapes: river sources in the upland moors; saltmarsh-flanked firths and estuaries; spectacular lochs and crystal-clear chalk streams. Out 26 March

Why write? Join me on 27 November for what may be a deep dive, and should at least be fun www.kellogg.ox.ac.uk/events/creat...

An evening of wonder chatting with @drmjwarren.bsky.social last night about his beautifully-written book THE CUCKOO'S LEA, at The Bookery in Crediton - discussing crows & owls, placenames & Anglo-Saxon Charters! Buy Michael's book here or from your local indy - www.bloomsbury.com/uk/cuckoos-l...

Prickles, thorns and spines - what's the difference? I tirelessly investigate for this week's Country Life. 📷 Alamy, Bridgewater images