Lifelines: Searching for Home in the Mountains of Greece

by Julian Hoffman

320 pages, Hardcover

Expected publication April 14, 2026

About the author

Julian Hoffman lives beside the Prespa lakes in northern Greece. His writing explores the relationships between humans and the natural world, alongside the cultures and communities of place, and is a lyrical blend of nature, travel, history and landscape. His upcoming book, LIFELINES, will be published in May 2025 and is set around the borderland region of Prespa where he and his wife moved in the year 2000 with little idea of what would come next on their journey. His previous book, IRREPLACEABLE, was the Highly Commended Finalist for the 2020 Wainwright Prize for Writing on Global Conservation and a Royal Geographical Society 'Book of the Year'. His first book, THE SMALL HEART OF THINGS, won a 2014 National Outdoor Book Award and was selected by Terry Tempest Williams as the winner of the AWP Award for Creative Nonfiction, described by her as a "tapestry of embodied stories...a book of faith in the natural histories of community."