Jacky Colliss Harvey

The mere mention of red hair or red-headedness conjures vivid associations. Stereotypes range from the fun-loving scatterbrain Lucille Ball to the largely mythologised Viking savage. There are the fiery-tempered shrews or penitent prostitutes (Mary Magdalene is almost always depicted as a redhead), and comic foils and long-suffering sidekicks, like Danny Partridge (The Partridge Family), Ron Weasley (Harry Potter), Jimmy Olsen...

Walking Pepys's London brings to life the world of Samuel Pepys with five walks through London. Samuel Pepys, the seventeenth century's best-known diarist, walked around London for miles, chronicling these walks in his diary. He made the two-and-a-half-mile trek to Whitehall from his house near the Tower of London on an almost daily basis. These streets, where many of his...

This is a book about walking and writing; about walkers who wrote, and writers who walk. And because it is a book about walking and writing, it is also a book about thinking, the circuit that exists between mind and feet, and about moving through a landscape that can be both physically in front of you and exist in a...