My book, Tree Hunting, was published at the end of May 2025. A lot has happened since then.
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As I traveled round Britain and Ireland researching Tree Hunting, I spent a lot of time listening to music, particularly as I was driving. I covered 30,000 miles, 20,000 by car, so I listened to plenty of songs.
Earlier today, I announced that my new book, Tree Hunting, will be published by Particular Books in May this year. It celebrates 1,000 great British and Irish trees, providing a description and location details of each, it includes gorgeous maps, loads of my own photos and it features sixteen ‘Tree Cities’, each with 20 or […]
The New Edition of London is a Forest is more than just a makeover: it has been fully revised and updated, and contains a brand new seventh urban forest trail.
I’m very excited to have been commissioned to write a book about the great urban trees of Britain and Ireland. Research is underway and, hopefully, I’ll be travelling all over these islands to see as many of its great trees as I can over the coming months.
In the first post, I wrote about how my lockdown urban nature rambles turned into my new book, London Tree Walks: Arboreal Ambles Through the Green Metropolis. Lockdown allowed me to really get to know parts of the city near where I live in north London, and as the rules eased, I ventured further afield, mostly on two wheels, and occasionally on public transport, allowing me to get to the tropics of Acton, Fulham, Pimlico, and beyond.
During Lockdown 1.0, I spent as much time as I could outdoors. Like many, I found it gave me an opportunity to appreciate nature on my doorstep even more than usual. Combined with a beautiful spring and the dramatic reduction in pollution, it seemed especially piquant. My lockdown urban nature explorations turned into a project which came to fruition in October with the publication of my new book, London Tree Walks: Arboreal Ambles Through the Green Metropolis.
I’m very pleased to announce that a new, expanded and fully revised edition of London’s Street Trees has been published by Safe Haven!
In August last year I walked through Epping Forest from Epping tube station to Chingford. It’s an amazing walk with incredible beech pollards and prehistoric earthworks, musclebound hornbeams and rare wild crab apple trees to be seen along the way. It’s just a section from one of the trails through London, from the greenbelt to […]
My book, ‘London’s Street Trees: A Field Guide to the Urban Forest’ will be published by Safe Haven Books at the end of May.