James Macdonald Lockhart

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Canongate pre-empts Fraser MacDonald's literary exploration of compost

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.

A promotional image for the paperback edition of my book Lifelines as part of a Waterstones online offer for pre-orders.

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...

Longlist - The Highland Book Prize | Duais Leabhair na Gàidhealtachd Highland Book Prize 2025 Longlist Announced The longlist for the Highland Book Prize 2025 has been announced by the Highland Society of London and Moniack Mhor, Scotland’s Creative Writing Centre. Thi...

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
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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.

The cover of Lifelines: Searching for Home in the Mountains of Greece, designed by Nicole Caputo. It features blue mountains, a firefly, a peacock butterfly, yellow wildflowers, a fire salamander, and an illustration of a Dalmatian pelican originally done by Edward Lear.

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!

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🥂 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...

Future Rural: Imagining Tomorrow's Countryside - Little Toller Books In this new anthology with CPRE, some of our foremost writers and thinkers imagine the future of the countryside.

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...

An event graphic including photos of two authors, Julian Hoffman and Lucy Durneen, advertising an online event taking place on Dec 16th for the University of Cambridge.

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/...

BBC Radio 4 - A Good Read, Gwyneth Lewis and Annabel Abbs Poet Gwyneth Lewis and author Annabel Abbs join Harriett to talk favourite books.

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...

A page from Country Life magazine with the headline Splinter Group and a photo of a spiky green holly leaf.

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

📷 Alamy, Bridgewater images

An event poster for November 25th at the University of Glasgow, featuring the cover of Julian Hoffman's book Lifelines and giving the event time and place: 4pm at the university's John Smith bookshop.

Delighted to be speaking about LIFELINES at the University of Glasgow on Nov 25th at 4pm for the School of Modern Languages and Cultures. The event at the university's bookshop is free to attend and open to the public but registration is required via the link.
events.bookitbee.com/university-o...

My book THE LOST RAINFORESTS OF BRITAIN was published 3 years ago. Since then, it's sold nearly 100,000 copies.

More importantly, it's been so wonderful to see the momentum behind the movement to restore Britain's temperate rainforests gather pace - with many more victories yet to come, I hope.

Heart’s Home - Orion Magazine A conversation about borders, belonging, and keeping the Kushners out

Deeply grateful to @orionmagazine.bsky.social for giving @alexismarieadams.bsky.social and myself the opportunity to have a conversation about borders, belonging, writing, rivers, grief and resistance, as well as our shared love for the more-than-human world.
orionmagazine.org/article/hear...

So, the book has a cover, thanks to the kindness of Colin Davidson. Out in January 26 with some events in Ireland the end of February, start of March. Will be available in the US slightly later. Thanks to you all for encouragement along the way.

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People of Devon, @guyshrubsole.bsky.social and I are in conversation about birds, landscape and belonging @thebookery.bsky.social, 13th November. Lots of Devon places are in the book, and crows, lots of crows! Join us! Tickets: www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/cre... #authorevent #naturewriting

A book cover depicting a Dalmatian pelican surrounded by yellow and white flowers, a fire salamander, a peacockk butterfly and a firefly against a purple-blue background suggesting mountains.

Delighted to share the North American cover for LIFELINES. With huge thanks to Nicole Caputo for the beautiful design and for placing Edward Lear's 1837 lithograph of a Dalmatian pelican at its heart. Published by Godine on April 14th, it's available to pre-order now!
bookshop.org/p/books/life...

E&T signs book on water Elliott & Thompson aquires The Waterlands by Stephen Rutt, an evocative journey through British waterscapes 'revealing everything a single raindrop can show us on its journey from source to sea'

We are so excited to be publishing @steverutt.bsky.social's new book #TheWaterlands, an evocative journey through British waterscapes revealing everything a single raindrop can show us on its journey from source to sea. 💧

Read more @bookbrunch.bsky.social:
www.bookbrunch.co.uk/page/article...

‘For several minutes I stood and stared as they looped, settled, flew again, feeling like I was in a dream.’

An unexpected encounter: As Jill Hopper walks by the River Wandle, electric blue shoots across the water www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/10/jill...

This year's Rick Allen Memorial Talk is being given by AC member @annamfleming.bsky.social.

Anna will be discussing her book Time on Rock and her experience of mountaineering with Bolivia's Cholita climbers.

Held on 21 October at Birmingham University, the talk is free to attend & open to all.

Very excited to share that I'm writing a new book, THE GHOSTS OF CHALK COUNTRY - about the loss of England's chalk downland: a tale of flowers, fascism & freedom.

To be published by @wmcollinsbooks.bsky.social in April 2027:
www.thebookseller.com/rights/willi...

Website: ghostsofchalkcountry.org

William Collins lands Guy Shrubsole's new book The Ghosts of Chalk Country

@wmcollinsbooks.bsky.social has acquired The Ghosts of Chalk Country, a 'journey into the chalk downs' by Sunday Times-bestselling author Guy Shrubsole. Publication is scheduled for April 2027 👇 #BookSky

A promotional image for the Kendal Mountain Festival and an event with author Julian Hoffman.

So excited to be returning to the fabulous @kendalmountainfest.bsky.social to join a wonderful line-up of writers. I'll be in conversation about my new book, LIFELINES, with the brilliant author and biodiversity campaigner Kate Rawles on Nov 22nd.
tickets.kendalmountainfestival.com/schedule/689...

We're delighted to announce that we'll be publishing 'predominant nature writer' Jim Crumley's latest book, Symphonic: Harmony in Nature and Why It Matters ✨

Read more here:

saraband.net/2025/09/17/s...

#Booksky
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