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Balkan bounty: the little-known corner of Greece now ripe for walkers and nature tourism Mountains, butterflies, bears and pelicans are among the natural wonders in the stunning Prespa lakes region, which straddles three countries

"I’m on a steadily rising road in northern Greece as swallows sweep over the burnished grasses to either side of me & pelicans spiral through the summer sky"

@julianhoffman.bsky.social writes @theguardian.com about the stunning #Prespa lakes, the setting of his new memoir #Lifelines:
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Absolutely thrilled that my book THE LIE OF THE LAND has been shortlisted for the @wainwrightprize.bsky.social for conservation writing!

Honoured to join an incredible shortlist of authors including @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social @frediotto.bsky.social

More here:
wainwrightprize.com/shortlist-20...

We’re thrilled to announce the 2025 #WainwrightPrize shortlists!

From climate and conservation to poetry, place and powerful storytelling for young readers, this year’s books celebrate our connection to the natural world.

Explore them all: wainwrightprize.com

#StoriesThatConnect

Lovely empty windows: @lauraparker.bsky.social tells the story of a 1928 lifeboat tragedy, as memorialised in the windows of an East Sussex church www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/07/love...

Residential Writing Course: Non-Fiction Writing the natural world with Jay Griffiths, @wylmenmuir.bsky.social and Michael Malay.

Learn how to transmute the world around you into vivid and unforgettable work on the page : arvon.org/writing-cour...

25-30 August 2025 | The Hurst, Shropshire.

Time to re-reintroduce myself.

My name is Chris Fitch, I'm a writer and author whose latest book is Wild Cities, a scientific travelogue exploring the benefits and challenges of nature and wildlife in urban spaces

🌴🐝🏡🦜🦁🏢🦭

Six days until my book on the ecology of the Merlin is published by Pelagic. If you think you know all about the Merlin, think again 🤔

An image of Guy Shrubsole stood in a woodland on a sunny day, looking past the camera. A graphic silhouette of an owl is overlaid

We can’t wait for @guyshrubsole.bsky.social to join us #WildSummitUK 🍿

Guy will be discussing the importance of nature-friendly planning alongside Community Planning Alliance & @nationaltrust.org.uk 🌳

Tickets available now👇
wildsummituk.eventbrite.co.uk

Lifelines, by Julian Hoffman 'Part autobiography, part ethnography, part poetic narrative is both a lament and a celebration of the natural world written in attentive, awakened language'

Thrilled to see this wonderfully thoughtful review of LIFELINES in the Baptist Times this weekend.
www.baptist.org.uk/Articles/717...

AI hype, crackling northern lights and more: take it all in with these holiday reads Ten of Nature’s recent contributors share their current book obsessions.

“In its scope and passion, this book appeals to readers’ most romantic instincts — reminding us of our entanglement with the cosmos and the organisms that live in it.” @leorzmigrod.bsky.social picks A Book of Noises as a summer read @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Cover of Nightshade Mother which displays a nightshade plant on a purple background, climbing around the title and also the sticker Enillydd Categori Category Winner 2025 with the logo of Hadio, the sponsor

🎇📚 Enillydd! Winner! 📚🎇

Llongyfarchiadau mawr to Calon author Gwyneth Lewis whose powerful memoir 'Nightshade Mother' has won the #Wales #Book of the Year Creative Non-Fiction Award!

Just received proofs for THE BOOK OF BOGS - out in September from @littletollerbooks.bsky.social, with contributions from @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social @guyshrubsole.bsky.social, Amy Liptrot, @nicolawriting.bsky.social @horatioclare.bsky.social @kimmoorepoet.bsky.social, me, and many others.

Me standing in front of some reeds looking authorial.

I'm offering mentoring sessions now for writers of non-fiction.

One-to-one video call, 2000 words of your writing reviewed with honest feedback and pointers for development.

More information here: stephenrutt.com/mentoring/

Canongate plunges for Amy Liptrot's 'illuminating' book on seaweed Canongate makes a dive for Amy Liptrot's The Tangles, a new book about seaweed.

Dip your head beneath the waves – THE TANGLES, from Amy Liptrot (bestselling author of The Outrun) is coming. An illuminating exploration into miraculous seaweeds, blending ecology, history and memoir, it gives us new eyes to look at this fascinating organism

www.thebookseller.com/rights/canon...

Canongate plunges for Amy Liptrot's 'illuminating' book on seaweed

Canongate makes a dive for Amy Liptrot's The Tangles, a new book about seaweed. It will be published in May 2026 👇 #BookSky

Episode 343: Lines Across the Wild

A huge thank you to Sarah Wilson at @rootsandall.bsky.social for having me on her wonderful podcast again. This time we talked about Lifelines, homing, Prespa, borders and song cultures in birds, plus so much more!
rootsandall.co.uk/podcast/line...

Flotsam by Robin Crawford In this new essay for The Clearing, the author Robin Crawford considers what's left behind by the river Tay: in nature and human history.

Thank you to Jon at @littletollerbooks.bsky.social for publishing this:

www.littletoller.co.uk/the-clearing...

Churchyards are brilliant places for nature AND people.

Undisturbed + unimproved, they provide habitat for slow worms, rare lichen, orchids + more. And are free for all.

Met amazing ppl for my piece in this week's Country Life. #naturewriting

📷 Getty, Sam Rowley/naturepl.com, Alamy, Jason Bye

A lovely review in the TLS for Merlin Hanbury-Tenison's book Our Oaken Bones.

Wonderful to see Guy Shrubsole's @guyshrubsole.bsky.social The Lie of the Land on the longlist for the 2025 Wainwright Prize for Conservation Writing: wainwrightprize.com/news/longlis...

Lovely to see Merlin Hanbury-Tenison's book Our Oaken Bones longlisted for the 2025 Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing: wainwrightprize.com/news/longlis...

Longlists and Judging Panels Announced for 2025 Wainwright Prizes - Wainwright Prize

Wonderful to see the @wainwrightprize.bsky.social going from strength to strength & to see so many deserving books on the longlist this year!
It remains an absolute honour for my book to have been Highly Commended in the Conservation category last year ❤️
wainwrightprize.com/news/longlis...

I’m delighted that my book THE LIE OF THE LAND has been longlisted for the Wainwright Prize for Conservation Writing.

It’s an honour to be on a longlist alongside @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social @sophiepavs.bsky.social & many others!

wainwrightprize.com/news/longlis...

@wainwrightprize.bsky.social

The wilderness and the world In the summer of 2000, the nature writer Julian Hoffman and his wife, Julia, stumbled upon a book that would change their lives for ever. Its subject was

'A lyrical nature memoir set in a remote corner of the Balkans' Tom Lathan, @thetls.bsky.social

www.the-tls.com/world/travel...

☀️ #Lifelines by @julianhoffman.bsky.social is out now!

Best summer books of 2025: Food, Drink and Travel Harriet Fitch Little and Tom Robbins select their best mid-year reads

#Lifelines by @julianhoffman.bsky.social - included in the FT's list of the best books of 2025 so far!

'This is a serious account of new lives abroad, greatly concerned with humans’ relationship with the natural world ... all lyrically described.’ @financialtimes.com

www.ft.com/content/c1d5...

Julian Hoffman in conversation with Charles Foster Buy tickets for the event with Julian Hoffman in conversation with Charles Foster at Daunt Books Summertown from Daunt Books today.

So excited to be joining the brilliant @tweedpipe.bsky.social at Daunts Summertown in Oxford tomorrow evening, June 24th, for a conversation about LIFELINES and so much more. Ticket details below!
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Two book covers. Turquoise colour with black and white etchings of islands by Norman Ackroyd.

Book post from @lilliputpress.bsky.social Two collections of personal writing from Andrew McNeillie, poet and editor of the excellent Archipelago journal of island writing: News of the World and An Aran Keening.

Dorset looking very wet through the train windows ahead of this evening's event for Lifelines at @foldedorset.bsky.social and The Grosvenor Arms in Shaftesbury, so come on inside where it'll be dry tonight!
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Nightshade Mother cover which features a nightshade plant suffocating and climbing around the title.

Tir cover which features different coloured illustrations of the varied kinds of landscapes explored in the book.

✨📚Wales Book of the Year Shortlist📚✨

Ar ben ein digon bod dau deitl Calon ar Restr Fer Llyfr y Flwyddyn 2025!

We are so excited and proud to have two Calon titles on the 2025 Wales Book of the Year Shortlist!

📚 'Nightshade Mother' by Gwyneth Lewis
📚 'Tir' by @carwyngraves.bsky.social

Nightshade Mother is written with eloquence and mettle. In these pages we are let into the process of the writing through which Gwyneth Lewis exorcises the myriad ‘malevolent ghosts’ that almost consumed her. By the end of it, she inhabits all her spaces, her mother relegated to a visitor, ‘not invited to stay.’ And though she says this is no ‘confessional catharsis,’ the reader is heartened by the unwavering voice at the end, the fearless, formidable woman who like Mwnci shows us how crucial it is to speak our truth, and to be heard. clare e. potter

'telling her story is a matter of life and death.' - A beautiful review of Gwyneth Lewis's 'Nightshade Mother' by fellow poet clare e. potter in @nation.cymru

Read more here: nation.cymru/culture/book...