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

🥳 We're so thrilled that #TheWaterlands: Follow a Raindrop from Source to Sea by @steverutt.bsky.social has been shortlisted for the Sustainable Story Award 2026! #NonFiction #Wetlands #Marshes #NatureWriting #Nature #Water #WaterCycle #Rivers #Environment #Bog #Rain #Birding #BirdWatching

💧Introducing the BEAUTIFUL new paperback cover of #TheWaterlands by @steverutt.bsky.social, now with a 20% discount when you pre-order from @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social! This is a captivating retelling of the water cycle, and an urgent call to protect our most essential resource. 🗓 Out 11 March

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... ($)

💧 Join author of #TheWaterlands @steverutt.bsky.social and Countryfile Magazine's 'The Plodcast' host Annabel Ross on a quest to explore the wildlife of the River Thames... Listen to the episode here: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/3... #wildlife #nature #water #rivers #wetlands #marsh

Excited to be speaking at the Wild Summit this Wed 9th Sept, alongside champions of the environment like @rachelsalvidge.bsky.social & @zackpolanski.bsky.social I'll be speaking about how nature is dying in our National Parks & what Ministers need to do to fix things! www.wcl.org.uk/wildsummituk...

I've just submitted the manuscript for my next book, THE GHOSTS OF CHALK COUNTRY. It's about the loss of England's chalk downland - a tale of flowers, fertility, fascism and freedom. Published by William Collins on 22nd April 2027; pre-order here: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

The 2026 #WainwrightPrize Shortlists are here! 📚🌿 Across six categories, 43 outstanding books celebrate the power of stories to connect people and planet, from nature writing and conservation to breathtaking illustration and inspiring children's books. wainwrightprize.com

I've published a version of my almost-prizewinning essay 'Minibeasts', shortlisted for the Nature Chronicles Prize in 2024. It's about my usual obsessions: wildlife, parenting, collapse, care, and hope. I would love for some of you to read it! medium.com/@d.higgins/m...

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An essay about small creatures and how we care for them

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Times+ members can now download the #audiobook #Lifelines by @julianhoffman.bsky.social. Set amongst lakes, mountains and stone villages, it follows the author and his wife as they build a new life in #Prespa, northern Greece. Visit thetimes.com/timesplus #Greece #Memoir #Nature #NonFiction #Travel

This should be a great evening of music + readings: looking forward to taking part.

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Album Launch: @settlevictoriahall.bsky.social Sat 25 July. www.settlevictoriahall.org.uk/eventsandsho... "A gift of love" @mikeharding.me With: @hestercoxprint.bsky.social @alastairhumphreys.bsky.social @jmlockhart.bsky.social @grahammort.bsky.social @anitasethi.bsky.social @ultradamo.bsky.social

We're delighted to reveal the 2026 #WainwrightPrize longlists! 📚 From captivating nature writing & urgent conservation stories to children's books that spark curiosity, this year's lists celebrate the stories that connect people & planet. Discover more: wainwrightprize.com

🎉Huge congratulations to @steverutt.bsky.social on his book #TheWaterlands: Follow a Raindrop from Source to Sea being longlisted for the @wainwrightprize.bsky.social for Nature Writing! #WainwrightPrize #StoriesThatConnect #waterlands #wetlands #bog #marsh #nature #NonFiction #WaterCycle #ecology

Happy to announce that my next book will be published by @batsfordbooks.bsky.social in spring 2028. I'm excited to be writing for an audience beyond academia! Most grateful to my agent @jmlockhart.bsky.social for helping me get to this point.

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.

Colin Bramwell’s FOWER PESSOAS has won the 2025 Duas Leabhair na Gàidhealtacht / Highland Book Prize “Colin Bramwell puts all four of [Fernando] Pessoa’s heteronyms into a present-day Scots-language vernacular, & so creates a parochial Pessoa for our own times” www.highlandbookprize.org.uk/winner/

Winner - The Highland Book Prize | Duais Leabhair na Gàidhealtachd

‘Bold and Brilliant’, Fower Pessoas wins the 2025 Highland Book Prize Fower Pessoas by Colin Bramwell is the winner of the 2025 Highland Book Prize. Published by Carcanet, Fower Pessoas is a bold reim...

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Stunning etchings by Leeds born artist Norman Ackroyd. Exhibition of his work is on in Bath. #art #Yorkshire www.victoriagal.org.uk/event/norman...

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...

Lifelines: Searching for Home in the Mountains of Greece by Julian Hoffman (@eandtbooks.bsky.social) has been awarded The Anglo-Hellenic League’s Runciman Award 2026. 👇

Julian Hoffman wins £10k Anglo-Hellenic League's 2026 Runciman Award

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The Flow Country — where nothingness is something very special... @steverutt.bsky.social speaks to @thetimes.com about The Flow Country, a vast bog in the far northeast of #Scotland where the plants have turned predator and the soil is less solid than milk: www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/...

The Flow Country — where nothingness is something very special

The vast bog in the far northeast of the Scottish mainland is an otherworldly place where the plants have turned predator and the soil is less solid than milk

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🥂 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

On the #ScotlandOutdoors podcast, @steverutt.bsky.social discusses the journey of a single raindrop through Britain's diverse waterscapes: from upland moors and spectacular lochs to saltmarsh-flanked firths and estuaries: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... Stephen Rutt's #TheWaterlands is out now!

Scotland Outdoors - From Raindrop to Sea with Stephen Rutt - BBC Sounds

Mark Stephen chats to writer Stephen Rutt about his new book 'The Waterlands'

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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...

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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In this extract from #TheWaterlands, @steverutt.bsky.social reflects on an incident that left him unable to swim, yet deeply drawn to water throughout his life: booksfromscotland.com/2026/04/the-...

The Waterlands by Stephen Rutt - Books from Scotland

'Water and land are not separate, nor are they two sides of the same coin, but more profoundly intertwined. They are the blood and bone of the earth.'

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Honoured to write a chapter for FUTURE RURAL, a new book out this week to mark CPRE's centenary My chapter, 'In defence of scrub', is about Britain's most unfairly maligned habitat. Derided by pundits & politicians, it's in fact a gorgeous home for wildlife... www.littletoller.co.uk/shop/books/l...

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!

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! 🎉

#TheWaterlands by @steverutt.bsky.social is... 'A wonderful piece of natural storytelling.' ROGER MORGAN-GRENVILLE ‘A lucid, passionate and moving book.’ HELEN JUKES ‘A kaleidoscopic tumult of aquatic wonders.’ DAN RICHARDS Get your copy here bit.ly/4ccwQJk