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Julian Hoffman @julianhoffman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Absolutely over the moon and deeply honoured to see Waterstones select LIFELINES as one of their Paperbacks of the Year for 2026! They've backed this book right from the very beginning and I'm so grateful for the incredible support. @eandtbooks.bsky.social @waterstones.bsky.social

Image from Waterstones Paperbacks of the Year promotion with the cover of Lifelines by Julian Hoffman against a gold and starred background.

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Julian Hoffman @julianhoffman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Island light one minute, island light the next. #corfutown

A pale yellow Vespa against a pastel pink wall.

The old fortress of Corfu Town backed by an immense incoming storm.

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Julian Hoffman @julianhoffman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"From the depths of mystery, and even from the heights of splendour, we bounce back and hurry for the latitudes of home." She taught me that attention was a way of being in the world. Travel well, Annie. And thank you. www.theguardian.com/books/2026/s...

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Annie Dillard, Pulitzer prize-winning author of nonfiction and nature essays, dies aged 81

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, published when Dillard was 28, skyrocketed her to become one of the most prominent nonfiction writers of her generation

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Julian Hoffman @julianhoffman.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Such an honour to have this incredibly thoughtful and expansive review of the North American edition of LIFELINES in the Wall Street Journal. "Prose this good deserves celebration, and the fact that it comes with a moral imperative amplifies the book's appeal." www.wsj.com/arts-culture... ($)

The cover of the NA edition of LIFELINES, including a Dalmatian pelican and a peacock butterfly.

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Elliott & Thompson @eandtbooks.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

We have seen some stunning #Lifelines displays at Waterstones stores this month! Have you spotted the book out and about? Thank you so much to @waterstones.bsky.social for choosing Julian Hoffman's stunning memoir as a Non-Fiction Book of the Month. #WBOTM Get your copy now: bit.ly/4pF7kS6

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Elliott & Thompson @eandtbooks.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

#Lifelines by @julianhoffman.bsky.social is a @waterstones.bsky.social Book of the Month! Read more about this transporting #memoir on the Waterstones blog, where Julian tells how a chance encounter with a book changed his life forever: www.waterstones.com/blog/julian-... #WBOTM #Greece #Travel

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lostriversto.bsky.social @lostriversto.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

A fascinating look at how we got here, where the water runs, and how climate change is forcing us to reckon with that history. "Canada’s three largest cities have something in common — they’re not just built along bodies of water, they’re built over them." newsinteractives.cbc.ca/features/202...

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Discover where ancient rivers flow under Canadian cities | CBC News

Ancient rivers once nourished and protected the lands where we built our biggest cities. Now, they’re buried underground. Is it finally time to let them see daylight?

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Julian Hoffman @julianhoffman.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

I wrote a short piece for the @waterstones.bsky.social blog about how books can change lives. In our case, Giorgos Catsadorakis' Prespa: A Story for Man & Nature led us to a mountain village in Greece. What other books have changed lives? @eandtbooks.bsky.social www.waterstones.com/blog/julian-...

A composite image with the paperback cover of Julian Hoffman's Lifelines and a portrait image of the author.

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Julian Hoffman @julianhoffman.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Next best thing to being there in person!

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Elliott & Thompson @eandtbooks.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

☀️ #Lifelines by @julianhoffman.bsky.social is a @waterstones.bsky.social Non-Fiction Book of the Month! 'Hoffman's exquisite account of relocation to a crossroads region of Greece called Prespa deftly blends travel and nature writing with history, memoir and ecology.’ bit.ly/3TcPFVy #WBOTM

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Julian Hoffman @julianhoffman.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

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.

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Julian Hoffman @julianhoffman.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Some thoughts on the unique and irreplaceable Vjosa-Narta ecosystem at the heart of the #flamingorevolution in Albania right now. Petition against the destruction of the Vjosa-Narta here: c.org/R76Q28MSZY

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Mona Khalil, Lebanon’s most well-known sea turtle conservationist, died of her wounds today after being injured by an Israeli strike I feel sick

MARINE ECOLOGIST MONA
KHALIL HAS PASSED AWAY
AFTER SUSTAINING INJURIES IN AN ISRAELI AIRSTRIKE

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Julian Hoffman @julianhoffman.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Delighted to have an excerpt from LIFELINES up on the fabulous @terrainorg.bsky.social - on wonder, outer space, brown bears and humility. Plus a video clip from a very resilient camera of bears in Prespa, Greece! www.terrain.org/2026/nonfict...

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In Praise of Humility - Terrain.org

"In Praise of Humility" is an excerpt from Julian Hoffman's beautiful new memoir, Lifelines: Searching for Home in the Mountains of Greece.

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In Praise of Humility - Terrain.org

"In Praise of Humility" is an excerpt from Julian Hoffman's beautiful new memoir, Lifelines: Searching for Home in the Mountains of Greece.

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Julian Hoffman @julianhoffman.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

“I call it the place where I go to meet the gods.” ~ Hanais Mhilli Excellent and important piece @mongabay.com on what's happening right now in the Vjosa-Narta area of Albania and the Flamingo Revolution aiming to stop the destruction of these irreplaceable sites. news.mongabay.com/2026/06/flam...

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‘Flamingo Revolution’ aims to stop Kushner-backed resort on protected Albanian delta

VJOSA-NARTA, Albania — In late April, heavy machinery began moving into the Pishë Poro-Narta protected landscape on Albania’s Adriatic coast without permits or public notice. Bulldozers and excavators...

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Julian Hoffman @julianhoffman.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

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...

The paperback cover of Lifelines with a caption from the Anglo-Hellenic League and mention of Winner of the Runciman Award 2026.

Julian Hoffman being presented the Runciman Award by the Greek Ambassador to the UK, Yannis Tsaousis.

Julian Hoffman at a lectern delivering his acceptance speech.

Julian Hoffman at a lectern with the paperback cover of his book Lifelines on the screen behind him.

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Elliott & Thompson @eandtbooks.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

🥂 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

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Jo Lloyd but jolly 🌍🐎 @jolloyds.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Beautiful book with a beautiful new cover

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Julian Hoffman @julianhoffman.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

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...

A copy of Lifelines by Julian Hoffman leaning against a tree. The cover depicts a Dalmatian pelican against a blue mountain background.

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Julian Hoffman @julianhoffman.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

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...

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Jason König interviews Julian Hoffman about his book Lifelines and his latest project on the Aoos/Vjosa river.

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Julian Hoffman @julianhoffman.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

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Jason König interviews Julian Hoffman about his book Lifelines and his latest project on the Aoos/Vjosa river.

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Benjamin Fallow 💚 @benjaminfallow.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

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.’🌈💚

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Julian Hoffman @julianhoffman.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

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...

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Carleton Alum Julian Hoffman Explores Prespa in New Book

Carleton alum Julian Hoffman writes about Prespa, Greece, exploring nature, borders, and connection in his latest book Lifelines.

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Julian Hoffman @julianhoffman.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

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.

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Julian Hoffman @julianhoffman.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

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.

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Elliott & Thompson @eandtbooks.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

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! 🎉

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Julian Hoffman @julianhoffman.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

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.

A view down the Vikos gorge, the canyon seamed with green and the heights capped in stark, impressive stone.

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Julian Hoffman @julianhoffman.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

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!

A title image for The RSL Ondaatje Prize longlist 2026.

A composite image of the 16 book covers that make up this year's Ondaatje Prize longlist.

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Julian Hoffman @julianhoffman.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

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...

Seven books lined up. From left to right, Athens Tales, Open Socrates, Goatsong, Lifelines, Alexandrian Sphinx, The Odyssey and Beauty and the Gods.

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Julian Hoffman @julianhoffman.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

“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...

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Satellite mirror plans could disrupt sleep and ecosystems worldwide, scientists say

Letters to US agency raise concerns over tech firm’s plans to use reflective satellites and expand numbers in low Earth orbit

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Julian Hoffman @julianhoffman.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

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!

A pair of gloves hands with a black and orange fire salamander in one of them and a dark crested newt in the other.

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Ian Tattum @iantattum.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

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.

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Julian Hoffman @julianhoffman.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

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

A round-headed tree turned bright yellow by blossom against a backdrop of mountains.

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Julian Hoffman @julianhoffman.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

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/...

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Scientists film whale giving birth while other whales work together to help her

Female named Rounder surrounded by family members when about to give birth to her second calf

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Julian Hoffman @julianhoffman.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

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/...

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Epic river migrations of fish rapidly collapsing, UN report finds

Vast journeys, among world’s great wonders, found to be under threat as freshwater fish populations crash by 81%

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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

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.”

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Scientists captured female sperm whales on video working together during a birth to protect the calf

Scientists have captured rare footage of a sperm whale giving birth, offering a window into the large mammals' behavior.

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Sophie Yeo @sophieyeo.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

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...

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Inkcap is back. Hello.

We are relaunching – and we have big plans.

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Julian Hoffman @julianhoffman.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

"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/...

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Butterflies crossing oceans, moths navigating by the stars: unravelling the mysteries of insect migrations

Trillions of insects embark, largely unnoticed, on epic journeys every year across mountain ranges, deserts and seas, and it is only now, as their numbers suffer huge declines, that scientists are tra...

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Julian Hoffman @julianhoffman.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

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/...

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Oldest-known whale song recording provides new insight into ocean sounds

Recording of humpback whale from 1949 could also provide new understanding of how the huge animals communicate

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Jean-François Cudennec @limpetnerd.eurosky.social · 12/03/2026

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.

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Yvette d’Entremont @dentremy.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

'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

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Elsewhere. A Journal of Place @elsewherejournal.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

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...

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Dr Jill Whitelock @jillwhitelock.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

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-...

Montage showing pressed plant specimens from an 18th-century bound herbarium.

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Julian Hoffman @julianhoffman.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

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.

A sandbar splitting the reflective lake at sunset.

$A dozen mute swans against a backdrop of mountains and lakes refracting the sun.$ Sunset over a peninsula riding into Great Prespa Lake.

An expansive view of wetland, lake and mountains at dusk.

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Helen Macdonald @hjm.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

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

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Julian Hoffman @julianhoffman.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

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.

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