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.
Paul Wood and London's Street Trees on R4 Saturday Live
On Saturday, BBC Radio 4’s Saturday Live featured a long interview by host Richard Coles with Paul Wood on the subject of urban trees, and a prominent mention of London’s Street Trees. Listeners were invited to send in their tree stories, and a great many did.
The widely popular website Atlas Obscura covers London's Street Trees
The excellent travel website AtlasObscura (almost half a million Twitter followers!) has just published a comprehensive and very well written feature by Jo Caird on the street trees of Hackney, interviewing Paul Wood and praising London’s Street Trees.
New Scientist podcast mentions London's Street Trees
In episode 21 of New Scientist’s weekly podcast Graham Lawton praises the new edition of London’s Street Trees.
Caught by the River reviews London's Street Trees
In a really eloquent and perceptive review of the new edition of London’s Street Trees on the website Caught by the River, Clare Wadd praises Paul Wood for conveying ‘an enormous amount of information with a light touch and some gentle humour’. ‘Whether you’re in the centre or the suburbs,’ she concludes, ‘and whichever suburb you’re in, London’s Street Trees will teach you something interesting about a tree on a street you know which, if you’re like me, you may have never even have noticed before.’
London's Street Trees' virtual launch to 60 people
On 30 April we had our virtual launch of the new edition of London’s Street Trees. For the usual room in a pub and a tab behind the bar read: Zoom. Sixty people logged in to hear Safe Haven’s publisher, Graham Coster, introduce the author, Paul Wood, whose slide presentation of the newest arboreal arrivals on the capital’s streets, from Pineapple Guava to the Peanut Butter Tree, prompted a great many questions and subsequently widespread approval. Among those joining the launch were Councillor Vincent Stops of the London Borough of Hackney, whose efforts have done so much over the years to make Hackney the amazing urban arboretum it is now, and Xanthe Mosley of Street Trees for Living, who was delighted to announce Paul as their new patron. You can watch the video of it (a full hour) on YouTube via Paul’s website.
Alastair Campbell puts London's Street Trees on Instagram
Alastair Campbell is well known at the moment for posting photographs of his ‘Tree of the Day’. ‘And I get home from taking a few shots of trees at the end of the road,’ he writes today on Instagram, ‘and look what turns up in the post. Excellent.’
Time Out features London's Street Trees' best lockdown-walk trees
Time Out - correction, In - has just published a beautiful photo-feature by Paul Wood on the most amazing street trees to see around the capital at the moment on your daily exercise-walk.
London's Street Trees now on BBC Sounds
Robert Elms’s interview with Paul Wood about London’s Street Trees is now on the BBC Sounds website.