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.
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.