Tom Chesshyre - Park Life: Around the World in 50 Parks

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PRAISE FOR PARK LIFE

"Recurring lockdowns have reminded us all of the importance of parks in our lives as places of refuge, respite, relaxation and reconnection. In Park Life, Tom Chesshyre guides his readers around the world in 50 parks, opening up all sorts of intriguing historical, cultural and environmental vistas along the way."

Jonathon Porritt, founder director of Forum for the Future

"Ever enterprising, Tom Chesshyre has made a virtue of necessity in this celebration of 50 worldwide parks he has explored over the years. As all our physical horizons shrank, his mental horizons expanded, prompted by memories, old notebooks and photographs and background reading. With an engagingly light touch, his recollections and descriptions are by turns wry and reflective. A truly imaginative 'Look Back in Lockdown'."

Stephen McClarence, travel writer

"Everyone has their favourite park. Whatever influences your own preference, Chesshyre's inspired selection from around the world amplifies how parks are so much more than green spaces. It is also a timely reminder that green is the colour of the outdoors; we ignore it at our peril."

Richard Hammond, Green Traveller

"Park Life is a journey into memory, and the pleasures of those places that we once took for granted. Parks are the increasingly contested common ground where people meant to stay apart come together to share more than just space. However, because they are public they are often under threat, and Chesshyre shows how these urban refuges are essential parts of our cities. This is a book to dream in."

Leo Hollis, author of Cities Are Good for You: The Genius of the Metropolis

"It's one thing to write a travel book when you can go almost anywhere you want; quite another to do so during a pandemic when largely confined to barracks. This is some achievement and is due largely to Tom Chesshyre's unbridled curiosity, sharp journalistic eye and boundless enthusiasm. Apart from anything, I feel the urge to reacquaint myself with Tom's local, Richmond Park, which he brings to life admirably."

Mark Palmer, Daily Mail

PRAISE FOR SLOW TRAINS AROUND SPAIN

"A lovely book."

Michael Portillo

"Chesshyre takes us on a wondrously hypnotic meander across Spain. His attention to detail and unwillingness to be rushed, either as passenger or author, make this a highly relaxing and subtly addictive read. What's more, if train travel is to play a bigger part in our travelling future, as many feel it might, Slow Trains Around Spain makes it feel like a future well worth embracing."

Glen Mutel, National Geographic Traveller

"If you ever need convincing that it's better to take the train than to fly, this is the book that makes a persuasive case."

Nicky Gardner, Hidden Europe

"You'll be entertained and inspired."

Richard Hammond, Green Traveller

"By turns humorous and sharply insightful, [Chesshyre] affectionately paints a vivid portrait of a deeply divided and contrasting country, bringing to life its characters and landscapes like few other travel writers can. Always curious, witty and intelligent, his writing style and subject matter are deeply rewarding this is armchair travel at its satisfying best."

Francisca Kellett, travel writer

PRAISE FOR SLOW TRAINS TO VENICE

"He casually, and beautifully, bats away the earnestness of travel literature."

Caroline Eden, The Times Literary Supplement

"There is something nostalgic about the clatter of wheels and sleeper trains by the end, the reader will struggle to resist the urge to follow his lead."

The Economist

"Bristling with vitality, Chesshyre's new tome is a joyfully rudderless romp through Europe's railway system It's a work of brilliant geekery, but for themost part it's a love letter to the continent, a Eurocentric work for our Brexit-beleaguered times."

National Geographic, Top Ten Travel Books for Summer 2019

"Like the trains he travels on, Tom Chesshyre meanders through Europe and the result is entertaining and enjoyable."

Christian Wolmar, author of Blood, Iron and Gold: How the Railways Transformed the World

"A diverting and thought-provoking read."

Simon Bradley, author of The Railways

"An engaging picaresque series of encounters and reflections on Europe as many of its countries struggle to find common ground amid the populist reaction to its dilemmas."

Anthony Lambert, author of Lost Railway Journeys from Around the World

"Beethoven with attitude, masochism in Lviv, the smell of cigarettes in the corridor, adventurous great aunts who travelled on the roofs of crowded trains, Carniolan pork-garlic sausage, Jimi Hendrix in the Slovene Ethnographic Museum and, of course, the 13:49 from Wrocaw. Tom Chesshyre pays homage to a Europe that we are leaving behind and perhaps never understood. Che bella corsa! He is the master of slow locomotion."

Roger Boyes, The Times

PRAISE FOR FROM SOURCE TO SEA

"An enjoyable refuge from everyday life."

Clive Aslet, The Times

"Chesshyre's book stands out from other accounts of walking the Thames Path in its contemporary (post-Brexit, pre-Trump) immediacy. A portrait of England and the English in our time, it is peppered with fascinating historical and literary markers. It's also a usefully opinionated guide to watering-holes and B&Bs from the sleepy Cotswold villages to the dystopian edgelands of the estuary."

Christina Hardyment, author of Writing the Thames

"A highly readable and entertaining saunter along England's iconic river."

Christopher Somerville, author of Britain's Best Walks

"Readers should perhaps prepare themselves for a whole new wave of Whither England? type books in the months and years ahead, and Chesshyre's is a not unwelcome early attempt to answer that seemingly urgent question."

Ian Sansom, The Times Literary Supplement

PRAISE FOR TICKET TO RIDE

"Like mini-odysseys, Chesshyre's railway journeys are by turns gentle and awesome, and full of surprises."

John Gimlette, author of Elephant Complex: Travels in Sri Lanka

"Funny and illuminating from Crewe to Korea, Ticket to Ride is a hugely entertaining account of the author's travels on the rails the world over chance encounters fly like sparks."

Sara Wheeler, author of The Magnetic North

PRAISE FOR TALES FROM THE FAST TRAINS

"Compulsory reading"

Mark Smith, The Man in Seat 61

"Transforms seemingly unsurprising familiar territory whether the Eurostar terminal at St Pancras or the cities of Frankfurt and Antwerp into the stage for insights and adventures."

Dea Birkett, author of Serpent in Paradise

"If you've 'done' Paris and Bruges and are wondering, 'Where next?', then this may be a quiet revolution."

Andrew Marr

"Splendid twenty-first-century railway adventure. At last this IS the age of the train

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