Alex Preston

2 weeks ago | observer.co.uk | Alex Preston

Born of a spontaneous decision to up sticks for the Grecian wilderness, Julian Hoffman’s poetic memoir is an inspiring call to throw caution to the wind In the summer of 2000, Julian Hoffman and his wife, Julia, read a book review in an RSPB magazine and it changed their lives. The book was Prespa, by the Greek biologist Giorgos Catsadorakis, a paean to a remote lake in the high borderlands of northern Greece, where pelicans and bee-eaters soar and wolves come down to drink at dusk.

1 month ago | observer.co.uk | Alex Preston

The Magpie River in Quebec, Canada. ‘Macfarlane’s words become the stream, pouring forth without interruption.’ Traversing four water systems around the world, Robert Macfarlane calls for rivers to be recognised as living beings in a powerful confluence of environmentalism and sublime prose Is a River Alive? Robert MacfarlaneHamish Hamilton, £25, pp384Two or three times a week, I run down from the hill on which I live in the Sussex Weald to swim in the River Rother.

1 month ago | portside.org | Penny Johnson |Alex Preston

Searching for Palestine’s Hidden Places and Lost Memorials Published April 23, 2025 ForgottenSearching for Palestine's Hidden Places and Lost MemorialsRaja Shehadeh and Penny JohnsonOther PressISBN: 978-1-63542-474-4Raja Shehadeh – lawyer, activist and Palestine’s greatest prose writer – has long been a voice of sanity and measure in the fraught, tendentious world of Arab-Israeli politics.

1 month ago | msn.com | Alex Preston

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1 month ago | theguardian.com | Alex Preston

Raja Shehadeh – lawyer, activist and Palestine’s greatest prose writer – has long been a voice of sanity and measure in the fraught, tendentious world of Arab-Israeli politics. His first non-academic book, When the Bulbul Stopped Singing, chronicled the 2002 siege of his hometown, Ramallah, while Palestinian Walks, which won the Orwell prize, traced how Israel’s de facto occupation of the West Bank had fundamentally altered both its geography and its history.