London Tree Walks receives an excellent review from Clare Wadd on this distinguished natural history and popular culture website, recommending ‘a lovely book for anyone who enjoys exploring London on foot, but is looking for new routes and a new focus for their wanderings’.
IanVisits reviews London Tree Walks
The erudite, endlessly inquisitive and extremely popular London and transport website IanVisits carries a long review of Paul Wood’s London Tree Walks.
BBC Radio London features London Tree Walks
On Wednesday morning Jason Rosam’s early show on BBC Radio London included an interview with Paul Wood about his new book of London Tree Walks (about 1 hour 53 minutes into the programme).
Forbes magazine features moquette and Seats of London
Forbes magazine recently featured a long and very well-informed piece by Sarah Turner on London Transport moquette, including in the discussion Andrew Martin’s Seats of London.
London Tree Walks featured in the Londonist
The Londonist website now carries an eyecatching feature by Paul Wood on 10 Celebrities’ Trees in the capital, based on London Tree Walks and ranging from Marc Bolan through William Wordsworth to Ada Salter and Kate Bush.
London Tree Walks featured in the Independent
London Tree Walks is featured in a long and fascinating feature by James Ware in the Independent.
Isabel Hardman praises London Tree Walks in the Spectator
In the Spectator magazine’s Health column, the political journalist Isabel Hardman, in a piece entitled ‘Nature Boost: How time outside can lift your mood’, recommends going on a tree walk. ‘London Tree Walks by Paul Wood takes you on a series of wonderful adventures through the capital,’ she writes, ‘Wood has written a great deal about the forest of trees that grow on our streets, and this book points out quite how many different ones you can see even on relatively short trips.’
The RHS's The Garden magazine reviews London's Street Trees
The new edition of the Royal Horticultural Society’s magazine The Garden, which goes out to all its 475,000 members, carries an excellent review of the new edition of London’s Street Trees by none other than the Curator of its flagship garden at Wisley in Surrey, Matthew Pottage. He praises Paul Wood’s book as ‘a fascinating and informative guide of the real-life tree stock of our capital city’ . ‘As someone who walked miles around West London during London’, he goes on, ‘and discovered many fascinating trees, I wholeheartedly recommend these urban walks, and of course this book should be firmly in hand… There is little that can compete with this up-to-date and specific topic,’ he concludes, and ‘surely such a book deserves its place on every tree lover’s bookshelf.’
London's Street Trees reviewed in KCW London magazine
The October issue of KCW London magazine, a handsome features magazine about London life and history, has an excellent review of London’s Street Trees. ‘Trees seem to be the zeitgeist of the pandemic,’ writes the reviewer, Don Grant, and ‘this book is a timely handbook, not just for identifying different species, but understanding where they came from and how they got to where they are.’
Alan Carr reviews What a Hazard a Letter Is on Radio 2
Alan Carr gave a great review to Caroline Atkins’ What a Hazard a Letter Is on his Saturday morning show Alan and Mel with Melanie Sykes on 3 October, describing it as ‘a fascinating book … with a really good concept’ and ‘just brilliant’. The piece comes just over 20 minutes before the end of the 3-hour show.