Nick Hunt

Travel and Nature Writing Finding the Words for the Journey: How Travel and Nature can be turned into Prose. On this weekend residential course, tutors Nick Hunt and Joanna Pocock will introduce you to travel and nature writi...

There are still a couple of places left on this residential writing retreat being led by Nick Hunt & myself at @hawkwoodcft.bsky.social Students will read, write, walk, workshop & write some more... all in a supportive & creative environment. From Oct 17-19: www.hawkwoodcollege.co.uk/our-programm...

Lone Wolf by Adam Weymouth The Baillie Gifford Prize rewards excellence in non-fiction writing, bringing the best in intelligent reflection on the world to new readers.

Well this is pretty exciting www.thebailliegiffordprize.co.uk/books-and-au...

Thanks Nicola! I've written about this strange journey at great length in a chapter of my next book - just handed in the first draft...

Signs Of Life In A Desert Of Death | NOEMA In the dry and fiery deserts of Central Asia, among the mythical sites of both the first human and the end of all days, I found evidence that life restores itself even on the bleakest edge of ecologic...

Morning-coffee reading, entering the Uzbek desert with its vanishing saline inland sea from the Southern California desert, not far from our own.

Missed this from @nickhuntscrutiny.bsky.social & @noemamag.com back in January (when I might not have sweated so much while reading, as the sun rises).

My essay for @noemamag.com, about the act of *not* walking home from Istanbul in 2012, has been selected for the Best Sports Writing of 2025. I am now officially a sports writer, much to my surprise!

Postal services in Europe suspend parcel shipments to US amid uncertainty over tariffs Donald Trump’s late announcement left operators with ‘extremely limited timeframe to get prepared’

Have any small publishers/ indie booksellers out there been affected by this? Would be interested in hearing from you www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Israel committing genocide in Gaza, say Israel-based human rights groups Reports detailing killing of children and elderly, forced displacement and starvation likely to add to pressure for action * Middle East crisis – live updates Two leading human rights organisations based in Israel, B’Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights, say Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza and the country’s western allies have a legal and moral duty to stop it. In reports published on Monday, the two groups said Israel had targeted civilians in Gaza only because of their identity as Palestinians over nearly two years of war, causing severe and in some cases irreparable damage to Palestinian society. Continue reading...

Israel committing genocide in Gaza, say Israel-based human rights groups

The former Attorney General of Israel, Michael Benyair is now calling Israel's actions in Gaza genocide.

"To eternal shame. Jews, who suffered a genocide 80 years ago, are committing genocide in Gaza. Shame, rage, and sorrow"

First draft editing day two, with hound. @johnmurrays.bsky.social

Pope Leo slams 'barbarity' of Gaza war as civil defence says Israeli gunfire kills 44 Gaza's civil defence agency said Israeli forces opened fire on Sunday on a crowd of Palestinians waiting to collect humanitarian aid, providing a preliminary toll of at least 44 people killed. The latest deaths came as Pope Leo XIV slammed the "barbarity" of the war in Gaza in his traditional Sunday blessing. 

Pope Leo slams 'barbarity' of Gaza war as civil defence says Israeli gunfire kills 44

More than 100 arrested across UK at protests related to Palestine Action Police in London detain scores of people and confiscate placards under section 13 of the Terrorism Act 2000

It's utterly mad.
These people are the opposite of terrorists.
THEY WANT PEACE.
The police know they're not terrorists.
The government knows they're not terrorists.
Yet, on the Home Secretary's orders, they're being arrested under the Terrorism Act.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

BREAKING: Palestine Action are on a roof above Elbit's Israeli drone maker in Shenstone, Staffordshire.

From here, actionists are able to dismantle the factory and halt the production of weaponry.

Free Palestine. Shut Elbit down.

"The result is a book of anthropology as much as ornithology..."

Lovely to see 'The Parakeeting of London' referenced in the latest installment of Michael Kerr's memoir/travelogue 'Lighting out of Lockdown'... deskboundtraveller.com/lighting-loc...

The word is "massacres"

Bold white text on black background reads 'RED LINE FOR GAZA' with a vertical red line separating the words.

Red Line For Gaza is a movement bringing together all of our voices to end the killing and suffering of children in Gaza: redlineforgaza.org.uk

Together, we will use our voice to demand action every week. Until the UK Government acts, we will not stop.

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... all I can say is that sometimes a book rings out like a bell struck cleanly, and sometimes what you hear is dud notes. It's hard to put your finger on, and not something you can 'prove'.

Thanks for this nuanced thread, Tim. My reaction when I read it is only that it didn't 'feel' true (clunky, unbelievable dialogue and a general sense of contrivance more than anything) but that could just have been down to bad writing. I didn't say that publicly because it felt mean and gossipy...

I just voted against proscribing Palestine Action, a civil disobedience group, as a terrorist organisation. But I'm furious that in doing so, the government forced me and others to vote against proscribing two other clearly terrorist groups. Cynical and dangerous from govt.

Starving Palestinians are being mowed down every day, simply for queuing for food. That is the real crime.

My speech against the government's proscription of Palestine Action.

If thousands of us stand up and say "I support #PalestineAction", what is the government going to do? Lock us all up for "terrorism" offences?
This is where we show them how solidarity works.
My latest with the great @doubledown.news

Name our Storms

I wrote a book about the named winds of Europe. Now the Met Office are inviting the public to name upcoming storms, made likelier by fossil-fuel-driven climate change. A campaign is underway to name the next five BigOil, BP, Equinor, Exxon, Shell. Do so here... www.metoffice.gov.uk/forms/name-o...

In 2003, anti-war activists broke into RAF Fairford to stop US bombers heading to Iraq.

Keir Starmer defended their actions and said it was justified to prevent war crimes.

Now his government is banning Palestine Action for doing the same.

The Prime Minister is a hypocrite.

"Visceral, bleak, nauseating, efficient. It's a story crafted by its negative space, the things unsaid. Powerful." Wonderful comment by Sage M on Substack

I know! I'm excited about that

The warmongers were wrong about Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya. Now watch them make the same mistake about Iran | Owen Jones Israel is the main source of terror and instability in the Middle East. But the west continually turns away from this reality, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

Israel is being portrayed as the victim as it launches a war of aggression against Iran.

It's committing genocide, invading its neighbours, committing every war crime under the sun.

Feel like you're losing your mind?

Well, you're not.

New column 👇

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

To the Bone How civilisation slays legendary beasts, a story

On Dark Mountain's Substack today, here's an old story from me: the troubling tale of a mythical creature dragged from a Welsh mountain lake, a fable about the violence humans enact on what they do not understand...

Read (or listen) for free here: darkmountainproject.substack.com/p/to-the-bone

That's pretty much all a book is, right? A bunch of nice sentences in a row

Congratulations, Gregory!

Paperback front cover of William Golding's novel The Inheritors

#booksky recommended for #literaryfiction
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Essay-appreciation: On Nobel Prizewinner William Golding's novel The Inheritors. By Nick Hunt, travel author and novelist.

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