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Julian Hoffman
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Writing, nature, people, climate, place.
New book: LIFELINES
Author of IRREPLACEABLE & THE SMALL HEART OF THINGS
Upcoming: RIVER SONG
Prespa, Greece. Rep'd by @jmlockhart.bsky.social
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After the rains, the silvering lake. Hill-oaks sloping to the shores in a swell of burnt orange. A single raven sculling north over the forests.

Lesser Prespa Lake, northern Greece
A silver lake set in a bowl of mountains, forested in the foreground by oaks turned burst orange by autumn.
November 12, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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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.
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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.
November 4, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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A sky of scattered gold.
A stand of poplar trees with golden leaves against a blue sky.
November 3, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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Autumn falling over the valley.
A mountain valley with autumn colours on the trees and a stone barn in the centre of a meadow.
October 31, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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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!
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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.
October 15, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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Delighted to be joining @sofkazinovieff.bsky.social at the @britschoolathens.bsky.social on Oct 22nd to talk about our recent books and how Greece has changed our lives and shaped us as writers. The in-person event is sold out but can be attended online via the link.

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A poster image showing authors Sofka Zinovieff and Julian Hoffman along with copies of their recent books, Stealing Dad and Lifelines.
October 14, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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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.
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A promotional image for the Kendal Mountain Festival and an event with author Julian Hoffman.
September 16, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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Such a joy and honour to interview the brilliant Dr Lee Durrell for the Corfu Literary Festival. Celebrating the centenary of Gerald Durrell's birth, she generously shared stories of their remarkable life together and her ongoing efforts to protect endangered species throughout the world.
Photo of Lee Durrell and Julian Hoffman taken against a marble wall. An audience in chairs listening to Lee Durrell at the Corfu Literary Festival. Lee Durrell reading from the book Myself and Other Animals.
September 15, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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An extraordinary evening at the Triethnés Music Festival in the old quarry of Mikrolimni above Lesser Prespa Lake the other night, including the remarkable polyphonic songs of ΧΑΟΝΙA. Their voices carried us across this borderland region in several languages. So powerful, so beautiful.
September 2, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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Such a pleasure recording this podcast for Sense of Place about Lifelines, home and the more-than-human world!
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A map of the Prespa lakes region shared by Greece, Albania and North Macedonia that appear on the endpapers of my book Lifelines.
September 1, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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Delighted to see LIFELINES chosen for the @stanfordstravel.bsky.social Armchair Travel section in the new edition of Wanderlust magazine!
A magazine page showing the covers of several books, each with a short description.
July 26, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Not only can the hummingbird hawk-moth beat its wings up to 85 times per second but it also traplines, carrying a memory-map of scent and colour that guides it back to the same patch of flowers at roughly the same time each day.
July 25, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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Scare Swallowtail season in the garden, though its English name doesn't fit very well in Greece, as it's far more common than the Common Swallowtail around these parts!
A Scarce Swallowtail on lavender. It's a large butterfly of cream wings and black markings with a pair of distinctive tails and flashes of blue and orange at the tips of its lower wings.
July 17, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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Thrilled by this fabulous review of LIFELINES in the TLS and to be sharing a page with the brilliant @wildtwin.bsky.social!

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June 30, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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Looking forward to joining the brilliant @wanderinggaia.bsky.social for a conversation about LIFELINES and so much more at London's @waterstones.bsky.social Victoria tomorrow evening, June 26th. Ticket details in the link below!

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June 25, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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It's a busy week of events for Lifelines! After tonight's conversation with Charles Foster in Oxford I'll be joining Richard Kerridge at Bath's fabulous Mr B's Emporium tomorrow evening, June 25th. Ticket details in the link below!

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June 24, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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So excited to be helping support #IndieBookshopWeek in Devon on Thurs June 19th. I'll be a guest bookseller and signing books in the morning @thebookery.bsky.social in Crediton & in the evening I'll be talking about LIFELINES with Liznojan Books in Tiverton. www.liznojanbooks.co.uk/events/lifel...
June 15, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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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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June 12, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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Tonight at @owlbookshop.bsky.social in London's Kentish Town I'll be speaking with the wonderful @ruthpadel.bsky.social to start my book tour for Lifelines!
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June 11, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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Skylights and lakeshine
A view over Great Prespa Lake with sunbeams slanting from heavy clouds.
May 31, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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Helping a small friend across the road this afternoon.
#hermannstortoise
A small tortoise with a beautifully patterned shell in my hand.
May 24, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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Several readers have highlighted the beautiful, hand-drawn map on the endpapers of the Lifelines hardback. This stunning illustration of the transboundary Prespa basin - plus three other drawings inside the book's pages - is the work of the wonderful Greek artist Matina Galati: www.matinagalati.com
A hand-drawn map in shades of blue of the Prespa lakes basin, including an otter, bee-eater, egrets and pelican, plus an old pick-up and the prints of a bear.
May 21, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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Spring suddenly spilling into summer.
A field of bright red poppies against dark green trees and a blue sky.
May 20, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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Fabulous to see Eastern festoons suddenly taking wing in the meadows after a long cold spell and heavy storms.
A butterfly marked in black on cream wings with powder blue and red dots towards its tail.
May 18, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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Delighted that an extract from my new book, Lifelines, has been published at the wonderful @caughtbytheriver.bsky.social this week. In this short section from the intro I write about the seasonal return of pelicans to the mountain lakes of Prespa in Greece.
www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/05/juli...
The cover of my book Lifelines showing a pair of lakes nestled within mountains and a deep red sun.
May 18, 2025 at 3:06 PM