Julian Hoffman
@julianhoffman.bsky.social
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
linktr.ee/jhoffmanprespa
New book: LIFELINES
Author of IRREPLACEABLE & THE SMALL HEART OF THINGS
Upcoming: RIVER SONG
Prespa, Greece. Rep'd by @jmlockhart.bsky.social
linktr.ee/jhoffmanprespa
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...
events.bookitbee.com/university-o...
November 4, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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...
events.bookitbee.com/university-o...
A sky of scattered gold.
November 3, 2025 at 4:55 PM
A sky of scattered gold.
Autumn falling over the valley.
October 31, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Autumn falling over the valley.
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...
bookshop.org/p/books/life...
October 15, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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...
bookshop.org/p/books/life...
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.
www.bsa.ac.uk/events/writi...
www.bsa.ac.uk/events/writi...
October 14, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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.
www.bsa.ac.uk/events/writi...
www.bsa.ac.uk/events/writi...
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...
tickets.kendalmountainfestival.com/schedule/689...
September 16, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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...
tickets.kendalmountainfestival.com/schedule/689...
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.
September 15, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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.
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
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.
Such a pleasure recording this podcast for Sense of Place about Lifelines, home and the more-than-human world!
www.senseofplacepod.com/podcast/epis...
www.senseofplacepod.com/podcast/epis...
September 1, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Such a pleasure recording this podcast for Sense of Place about Lifelines, home and the more-than-human world!
www.senseofplacepod.com/podcast/epis...
www.senseofplacepod.com/podcast/epis...
Delighted to see LIFELINES chosen for the @stanfordstravel.bsky.social Armchair Travel section in the new edition of Wanderlust magazine!
July 26, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Delighted to see LIFELINES chosen for the @stanfordstravel.bsky.social Armchair Travel section in the new edition of Wanderlust magazine!
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
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.
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!
July 17, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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!
Thrilled by this fabulous review of LIFELINES in the TLS and to be sharing a page with the brilliant @wildtwin.bsky.social!
www.the-tls.com/world/travel...
www.the-tls.com/world/travel...
June 30, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Thrilled by this fabulous review of LIFELINES in the TLS and to be sharing a page with the brilliant @wildtwin.bsky.social!
www.the-tls.com/world/travel...
www.the-tls.com/world/travel...
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!
www.waterstones.com/events/an-ev...
www.waterstones.com/events/an-ev...
June 25, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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!
www.waterstones.com/events/an-ev...
www.waterstones.com/events/an-ev...
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!
mrbsemporium.com/events/2025/...
mrbsemporium.com/events/2025/...
June 24, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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!
mrbsemporium.com/events/2025/...
mrbsemporium.com/events/2025/...
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
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...
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!
www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/fol...
www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/fol...
June 12, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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!
www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/fol...
www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/fol...
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!
owlbookshop.co.uk/product/juli...
owlbookshop.co.uk/product/juli...
June 11, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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!
owlbookshop.co.uk/product/juli...
owlbookshop.co.uk/product/juli...
Skylights and lakeshine
May 31, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Skylights and lakeshine
Helping a small friend across the road this afternoon.
#hermannstortoise
#hermannstortoise
May 24, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Helping a small friend across the road this afternoon.
#hermannstortoise
#hermannstortoise
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
May 21, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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
Spring suddenly spilling into summer.
May 20, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Spring suddenly spilling into summer.
Fabulous to see Eastern festoons suddenly taking wing in the meadows after a long cold spell and heavy storms.
May 18, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Fabulous to see Eastern festoons suddenly taking wing in the meadows after a long cold spell and heavy storms.
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...
www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/05/juli...
May 18, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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...
www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/05/juli...
It would be such a pleasure to finally meet in person, Xander, so do let me know if you think you'll make it! Here's the rest of the tour in case there's somewhere nearer to you. And I do hope you enjoy the book - thanks so much for ordering!
May 16, 2025 at 3:49 PM
It would be such a pleasure to finally meet in person, Xander, so do let me know if you think you'll make it! Here's the rest of the tour in case there's somewhere nearer to you. And I do hope you enjoy the book - thanks so much for ordering!