• Saturday 5 April, 3.30pm
• Augustine Hall, Canterbury Christ Church University
• Tickets £14 (Incl. £1.50 booking fee)

What is it about walking that is so good for us? Join award-winning writer Annabel Streets in conversation with the UK’s “laureate of walking,” Duncan Minshull, as they consider what effect different landscapes and different walks can have on us.

In her new book, The Walking Cure, Annabel blends anecdotal and scientific evidence to explain the curative and therapeutic benefits of 20 easy-­to-­find landscapes, both rural and urban: from mountains to meadows, disused railway lines to rivers and coastal cliffs to city parks.

Annabel Streets reveals not only the huge physiological benefits of walking, but also how these are exponentially enhanced by the particular routes we choose to walk. Streets investigates how different landscapes have proven abilities to change how we see, feel and experience ourselves and the world.

Discover the perfect place to walk for over two dozen common states-of-mind, whether it be a canal path to spark creativity, a bustling city to allay boredom or the shoreline to heal grief and insomnia.

Annabel Streets is an award-winning writer of highly researched fiction and non-fiction. Her first practical walking book, 52 Ways to Walk, was a widely reviewed bestseller. As Annabel Abbs, she is the author of Windswept: Why Women Walk, voted a top ten 2021 travel book. As Annabel Streets she co-authored The Age-Well Project: Easy Ways to a Longer, Healthier, Happier Life. She has written for a wide range of titles, including the Guardian, The Daily Mail, Telegraph, Tatler and the Paris Review, and is a Fellow of the Brown Foundation. She lives in London and Sussex where she is frequently on foot.

Duncan Minshull is a freelance audio producer and anthologist, and formerly a senior producer at BBC Radio where he commissioned and produced ‘Book Of The Week’, ‘Book at Bedtime’, ‘The Essay’, and ‘Short Story’. GLOBETROTTING is his recent book on walking. Previous titles include While Wandering, Beneath My Feet, Sauntering, and Where My Feet Fall. He has written extensively about the subject for The Times, Financial Times, Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, Conde Nast Traveller, Slightly Foxed, Psychologies, and Vogue. He lives in west London and takes people out – on what he calls: ‘walk & talks’ – across various parts of the UK.