Where My Feet Fall: Going for a Walk in Twenty Stories

Written by Duncan Minshull

Narrated by Duncan Minshull

The Independent Best Book for Walkers 2022 Where can a walk take you?

It goes without saying, walking can connect us to our surroundings and free us from our worries. It can raise our heart rate and relax our minds. It can lead us across historic ground and inspire new thinking.

In this beautiful collection, twenty outstanding writers set out with old memories and new adventures. ‘I’ve always hated walking,’ Harland Miller offers as his precis, while Ingrid Persaud and Agnes Poirier consider the rituals of pilgrimage and protest march. ‘It isn’t a walking city,’ Kamila Shamsie writes of Karachi, though she strides across it regardless. On the shores of Foulness Island, Will Self hopes to avoid landmines. In a forest north of Berlin, Jessica J. Lee gets soaked, then lost. And pacing around Delhi, Keshava Guha is interrupted by a husky. ‘During the pandemic of 2020,’ he writes, looking back. ‘He was the only thing I hugged.’

These are stories to dip into, from all walks of life. Together they capture the magic and opportunity that can arrive when you put one foot in front of the other.

This collection features Tim Parks, Kamila Shamsie, Will Self, Nicholas Shakespeare, Irenosen Okojie, Ingrid Persaud, AL Kennedy, Cynan Jones, Sally Bayley, Joanna Kavenna, Kathleen Rooney, Richard Ford, Harland Miller, Keshava Guha, Agnès Poirier, Josephine Rowe, Sinead Gleeson, Pico Iyer, Patrick Gale and Jessica J. Lee.

• Language: English
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Release date: Mar 31, 2022
• ISBN: 9780008414139

Duncan Minshull

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’. His previous books 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, Guardian, Conde Nast Traveller, Slightly Foxed, Psychologies and Vogue. He lives in west London and leads walking tours – ‘walk and talks’ – across various parts of the UK.