Lifelines: North American edition

I'm delighted to share the finished cover for the North American edition of Lifelines: Searching for Home in the Mountains of Greece, which will be published by Godine on April 14th. With huge thanks to Nicole Caputo for the absolutely beautiful design and for having the brilliant idea of placing Edward Lear's illustration of a … Continue reading Lifelines: North American edition

Lifelines: A book’s beginnings

No book is ever written in isolation or stands on its own. The work of writing one might seem like a solitary endeavour given the single name on its cover, but each is indelibly and essentially shaped by countless people, places, conversations and encounters hidden just out of sight beyond the edge of the page. … Continue reading Lifelines: A book’s beginnings

Lifelines: Searching for Home in the Mountains of Greece

I'm delighted to say that my new book, Lifelines, was published last week, nearly twenty-five years after my wife, Julia, and I arrived in Prespa in northern Greece with the aim of radically changing our lives. All we had to go on at the time was the book about the region that had convinced us … Continue reading Lifelines: Searching for Home in the Mountains of Greece

Lifelines: new book announcement!

I'm extremely delighted to announce that I have a new book on the way, which will be published in the UK on May 15th and in a North American edition in Spring 2026. Regular readers of my blog posts here will know that I live above the Prespa lakes, and it's this place that sits … Continue reading Lifelines: new book announcement!