Lighthouse Bookshop Edinburgh: Kerri Andrews & Josie Giles

16/09/2026 7:00 pm | Lighthouse Bookshop - 43 West Nicolson Street, Edinburgh EH8 9DB

Join editor Kerri Andrews and award-winning poet and contributor Josie Giles at Lighthouse Radical Bookshop to discuss Women, Walking.

Women, Walking is an agenda-setting, contemporary exploration of women setting foot outdoors now, and what that means; Compiling ten specially commissioned essays on walking from prize-winning writers including poets, novelists, essayists and journalists, published here for the very first time,

The groundbreaking collection that brings together many of the most prominent and exciting voices of the last decade across poetry, fiction, essays and journalism, and many a Lighthouse bookshop favourite: Anna Fleming, Anita Sethi, Beatrice Searle, Gail Simmons, Helen Mort, Josie Giles, Kate Davis, Katharine Norbury, Linda Cracknell and Polly Atkin.

Journey from Josie Giles observing the political implications of different features of the landscape to Gail Simmons celebrating the low-key wonders of the incidental walks we take every day, to Kate Davis on why walking matters more when disability prevents you from doing it ‘properly’.

When: Wednesday 16 September, 7–8pm

Where: Lighthouse Bookshop – 43 West Nicolson Street, Edinburgh EH8 9DB

Price: FREE or £20 including a copy of Women, Walking: Contemporary Voices On Nature and Belonging. 

About the contributors:

Kerri Andrews is a writer, editor, academic and a walker. She is the author of Wanderers: A History of Women Walking and Way Makers: An Anthology of Women’s Writing about Walking. She has written for the Guardian, Trail Magazine, The Great Outdoors Magazine, History Today and Scottish Wildlife. Kerri is based in the Scottish Borders.

 Harry Josephine Giles is from Orkney and lives in Leith. Her latest book is Them! (Picador 2024). Her verse novel Deep Wheel Orcadia won the 2022 Arthur C. Clarke Award for science fiction book of the year. She has a PhD in Creative Writing from Stirling. Her show Drone debuted in the Made in Scotland Showcase at the 2019 Edinburgh Fringe and toured internationally. www.harryjosephine.com

More about Women, Walking

Following on from Kerri Andrews’ bestselling book Wanderers, which retold the history of walking through ten women, Women, Walking is an agenda-setting, contemporary exploration of women setting foot outdoors now, and what that means. This groundbreaking collection brings together many of the most prominent and exciting voices of the last decade across poetry, fiction, essays and journalism: Anna Fleming, Anita Sethi, Beatrice Searle, Gail Simmons, Helen Mort, Josie Giles, Kate Davis, Katharine Norbury, Linda Cracknell and Polly Atkin.