David Fathers

14 walks exploring the capital's green spaces and pathways

David’s hand-crafted, beautiful, atmospheric, eerie, moody digital images enhance every page. They are works of art in themselves. In fact, the book itself is a work of art. Hunter Davies

From parks and rivers to heaths and woodlands, discover London’s most beautiful natural spaces with this captivating and insightful guide.

Featuring 14 wonderful walks with delightfully illustrated route maps, David Fathers not only shows you how to plan these adventures along the green corridors connecting the city, using old railway tracks, towpaths and riverside trails, but also enriches your journey with insights into well-known landmarks, historical events, famous figures, diverse wildlife and so much more.

Whether you’re a local or a tourist, this book will inspire you to explore and appreciate London’s glorious green spaces.

A new book by David Fathers is always cause for celebration. Each of his guides features a dozen or so superbly researched walks across the capital on a given theme. What sets them apart on a crowded bookshelf is the illustrations and maps. They are gorgeous, plentiful and all drawn by the author.

His latest instalment, Green London, took two years to compile, and appears even more lush than its predecessors. In a supreme act of layout gymnastics, he and the publishers have managed to get at least one full-colour illustration on every single page — no mean feat given this is a pocket-sized guide. The result is a book that not only serves as a walking companion, but is also an exquisite object you could relish from a winter's armchair.
Matt Brown, Londonist

Written, illustrated and designed by David Fathers

Published by Conway Bloomsbury on 13 March 2025.