Women, Walking: A Radical anthology of writing on nature and belonging

We could not be more thrilled to launch the latest anthology from the bestselling author of Wanderers: A History of Women Walking - join editor Kerri Andrews and contributor (and award winning poet) Josie Giles!

Women, Walking is an agenda-setting, contemporary exploration of women setting foot outdoors now, and what that means; Compiling ten specially commissioned essays on walking from prize-winning writers including poets, novelists, essayists and journalists, published here for the very first time,

The groundbreaking collection that brings together many of the most prominent and exciting voices of the last decade across poetry, fiction, essays and journalism, and many a Lighthouse bookshop favourite: Anna Fleming, Anita Sethi, Beatrice Searle, Gail Simmons, Helen Mort, Josie Giles, Kate Davis, Katharine Norbury, Linda Cracknell and Polly Atkin.

Journey from Josie Giles observing the political implications of different features of the landscape to Gail Simmons celebrating the low-key wonders of the incidental walks we take every day, to Kate Davis on why walking matters more when disability prevents you from doing it ‘properly’.

Women, Walking confirms the importance of every kind of walking as a political and creative act of belonging. Moving and radical, and we should all be encouraged to get outside, know our surroundings and find our voice.

'An engrossing collection that puts real lives and bodies front and centre, leaving the heroic masculine walker in the far distance. I am grateful for it' - Katherine May, author of Wintering