Beautiful book with a beautiful new cover

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...

“Slow the flow, get the habitat right and the species will come." An inspiring story of action and restoration when so much river news from the UK is grim. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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...

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...

Happy 100th Birthday Sir David Attenborough!💚 Portrait by Benji, drawn age 12 🌍 (animals drawn age 6 to 12) 🪶 ‘Thank you for inspiring us all across the world with a love for nature! I hope people will see my artwork and remember to care for our planet.’🌈💚

What a legacy! How lucky we are he’s lived long and productively. Happy 100 years! 🎈

The five years I spent at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada were amongst the most transformative of my life, so it's a particular honour to be so generously profiled for the university's alumni magazine. Many thanks to Dan Rubinstein for writing it up so beautifully. carleton.ca/news/story/j...

The devastating reality of what's going on right now in Albania's Vjosa Delta and Narta Lagoon, one of Europe's last intact deltas systems and absolutely crucial for migratory and resident wildlife.

After their long migratory journey from southern Africa, great white pelicans are back in Prespa again, crossing the mountains of this ancient lakes basin shared by Greece, Albania and North Macedonia. So beautiful to see so many of them flying through the cold silver light.

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! 🎉

On #earthday, an image I took last week of the Vikos Gorge in northwestern Greece. Sculpted over millions of years by the Voidomatis River, the chamois I startled flowed like a river too, rippling across scree with electric energy: a current, a course, a torrent. So at home in the skyrise heights.

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!

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...

“The alternation of light and dark is not a trivial background condition. It is one of the oldest organising principles of life on Earth.” It feels like we're on the cusp of crossing, if we haven't already, into uncharted territory for the planet's life systems. www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

An unexpected start to the day when my wife and I squeezed a step ladder into the car and drove to a sewer with an open lid she'd discovered while out running. We soon lifted a dozen frogs, a baby toad, two lizards, a young slow worm, a pair of fire salamanders and two crested newts to the surface!

Thanks to Paul for including one of my poems in this. It is about a mountain in Prespa so I dedicate my effort to @julianhoffman.bsky.social . The whole anthology is worth reading and is for a good cause.

Cornelian cherry as our valley's bright sun at the moment!

I keep coming back to this remarkable story, finding some new element of admiration. From the intergenerational support of a sperm whale grandmother to her daughter in labour to the vital role of unrelated females in nourishing community. Other species: amazing. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The dorado catfish migrates 11,000 km between its spawning waters in the foothills of the Andes and feeding sites in the Amazon estuary. On the astonishing yet threatened journeys of freshwater fish & the urgent need to protect transboundary, free-flowing rivers. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

How incredible: “The full delivery took about 30 minutes. For hours afterward, pairs of whales held the baby above the water until it was able to swim… What struck the researchers was how many mother, sister and daughter whales united to support the new calf, even ones that weren’t related.”

Today is an exciting day: I have relaunched Inkcap! New website, new branding, lots of in-depth reporting on nature in Britain coming your way. Please share & help me get this thing off the ground. www.inkcap.co.uk/inkcap-is-ba...

"The air was full of magic." ~ Dr Will Hawkes, biologist A stunning, multimedia exploration of insect migration, from butterflies crossing deserts and oceans to bogong moths navigating hundreds of kilometres by the celestial spacing of the Milky Way. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

This is an extraordinarily beautiful and moving song of a humpback whale recorded in Bermuda in 1949, making it the oldest-known recording of whale communication to exist. Just as importantly, it captures a quieter sea that these whales & songs journeyed through. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

1/ Homing is a widespread animal behaviour and uses lots of different mechanisms : magnetoreception for migrating birds, time-compensated sun compass for monarch butterfly... But one animal's homing ability remains unexplained after 60+ years of research: the limpet.

'Will Canada meet its goal to protect 30% of land and waters by 2030?' Canada must protect 1.7 million sq. kms, the size of Alaska, to meet 2030 conservation goals. Manitoba is eyeing Indigenous-led plans to get there By Julia-Simone Rutgers via @thenarwhal.ca

For our “Palimpsest” issue, our editor @marcelkrueger.bsky.social wrote about @julianhoffman.bsky.social’s wonderful book “Lifelines” and the traces of the Greek Civil War in the topography of the Prespa basin. www.elsewhere-journal.com/palimpsest/2...

Lovely to be able to share this 18th-century bound herbarium for a workshop on botany and the book, funded by the Isaac Newton Trust and Trinity College, Cambridge. We’ve also digitised the volumes, so everyone can take a look! cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-ADD-...

Sunlight sliding from the mountains and lakes of Prespa, a dozen mute swans floating out into deeper water and Dalmatian pelicans rowing through the cold, dimming air towards their reed-island nests. As I turn to leave a marsh glides past, its wings as still as the surface of the lake.

I will never not adore "and allies" in a fieldguide title. Don't mess with the grasshoppers or the earwigs and crickets and cockroaches will fuck you up

A lot of incredible small presses in the US facing devastating funding cuts if you're able to support them with a purchase, including Milkweed Editions, Coffee House Press, Red Hen, BOA, Torrey House Press and many others.

"The river won, the forest won, the memory of our ancestors won." Terrific piece by @jonathan-watts.bsky.social on the courageous and against-the-odds activism of Indigenous river defenders in the Brazilian Amazon. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Matt Goodwin lost to a white woman and a party led by a Jewish man — and somehow he’s blaming Muslims? No, mate. This one’s on you: your misogyny, your shallow, divisive tactics, and your empty obsession with “us vs them.” Gorton & Denton saw right through it. Hopefully one day you will too.

Amid all the talk about why this or that party won or lost, we shouldn't lose sight of the fact that Hannah Spencer was a great candidate - pretty nearly the perfect pick for this constituency.

What a result!! Huge congratulations to the amazing Hannah Spencer - everyone in Gorton and Denton has just made history. This result shows @greenparty.org.uk can win anywhere, that the politics of hope can win over the politics of hate & there is no longer any such thing as a Labour safe seat 💚

Finally, the bug is back with a round of the Guinness.

"As long as the occupation continues apace, and as long as the extreme Israeli right is in power, democracy in Israel will be sick at the core. It cannot be healed without our recognizing Palestinians as human beings with equal rights." @nybooks.com www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

Lovely tribute to the island of Corfu, its generous hospitality and its magical literary festival by @alexpreston.bsky.social. So looking forward to his new book, A Stranger in Corfu, that's out now! www.theguardian.com/travel/2026/...

"This is Europe’s new reality: under water in winter, withered in summer. Yet even as the weather extremes worsen, the voices of denial have grown louder and more influential." Excellent piece on the distance between lived realities and ideological denial. www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

E&T paperbacks which will inspire you to get outside this Spring. All with 25% off @waterstones.bsky.social: bit.ly/4rlYNDA ☀️Lifelines by @julianhoffman.bsky.social 🪏This Allotment edited by Sarah Rigby 🪶Nature Needs You by @hannahbournetaylor.bsky.social 🥾Pathfinding by @kerriandrewsuk.bsky.social

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...

Moss-glow between the mist-screens.

It is publication today for Late Heaney I am told, although I imagine it’ll be a while before I see it between ice storms and the broad Atlantic. I thought I’d share a few thoughts about it, as it’s a different kind of book for me in form and style. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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...

Farage & co if they actually cared about migration would care about climate change. In fact, they see an opportunity: Petro-populists deny the existence of climate change, do all they can to turbocharge it, desperate mass migration ensues & they use anti-migrant feeling to perpetuate their power.

The brown bear population in Greece has nearly doubled in recent years without a rise in damage to livestock, beekeeping or agriculture, according to a study by the environmental organization Arcturos. www.ekathimerini.com/news/environ...

Great to be out in Prespa for yesterday's International Waterbird Census. Pygmy cormorants flared from the reeds, Dalmatian pelicans glided past, and a group of male smews appeared like a sudden squall of snow. And in the deeps, an extraordinary raft of 1,200 pochards on the silvering winter waters.

solidarity of light

When cliffs become rivers after heavy rains. Mastorochoria, northern Greece

🥂 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