Amanda Tuke: Wild Pavements (GRIFFIN BOOKS AFTER HOURS)

Step into the cracks, corners and overlooked spaces of our towns and cities with urban naturalist Amanda Tuke, as she discusses her new book Wild Pavements - a timely and quietly radical celebration of urban nature and the people who care for it.

Wild Pavements
Amanda invites us to see the city differently, revealing the extraordinary wildlife thriving alongside us in streets, canals, car parks and pavement edges. From wild bees on canal banks and black redstarts nesting on Oxford Street, to rare plants pushing through concrete and new life returning to urban rivers, her writing uncovers a living, breathing natural world hiding in plain sight.

Travelling from the City of London to its suburbs - and onward to Liverpool, Edinburgh, Belfast, Cardiff, Sheffield, Aberdeen and beyond - explore how current thinking in ecology and conservation is reshaping our understanding of urban environments and learn how the wild world around us can transform not only our relationship with nature, but the way we experience our cities themselves.

With more than 85% of the UK population living in towns and cities, Wild Pavements feels both urgent and hopeful, offering practical suggestions for new urban naturalists alongside a powerful reminder that our streets and communities are deeply entwined with nature’s stories.

AMANDA TUKE is a London-based urban naturalist, nature writer and consultant botanist, and an associate lecturer on the MA in Nature & Travel Writing at Bath Spa University. She leads urban plant and bird walks, teaches botany, and writes widely on urban wildlife for publications including Bird Watching Magazine, RSPB Magazine, BBC Countryfile Magazine and Resurgence. Formerly nature-writer-in-residence for the London Wildlife Trust’s Great North Wood project, her work is rooted in close observation, accessibility and a deep belief in the importance of everyday nature.

This event is part of our new Griffin Books After Hours series of talks, interviews and discussions, which will take place in our newly expanded shop.

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Thursday 30 April | 7.30 pm
Griffin Books, 9A Windsor Road, Penarth, CF64 1JB*
Tickets: From £5.00
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