Andrews, Kerri – The Bell Bookshop https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk Henley-on-Thames Thu, 22 Jan 2026 13:53:18 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cropped-Bell-Background-Blue-32x32.png Andrews, Kerri – The Bell Bookshop https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk 32 32 Way Makers https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/way-makers-2/ Sun, 01 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/?post_type=product&p=53346 A sweeping collection of women’s writing on the wandering path, moving across genres, geographies, and centuries.
 
The follow-up to the celebrated Wanderers, Kerri Andrews’s Way Makers is the first anthology of women’s writing about walking. Moving from Elizabeth Carter’s correspondence with Catherine Talbot in the eighteenth century through to Merryn Glover in the present day, and across poetry, letters, diaries, novels, and more, this anthology traces a long tradition of women’s walking literature. Walking is, for the women included in this anthology, a source of creativity and comfort; it is a means of expressing grief, longing, and desire. It is also a complicated activity: it represents freedom but is also sometimes tinged with danger and fear. What cannot be denied any longer is that walking was, and continues to be, an activity full of physical and emotional significance for women: this anthology is a testament to the rich literary heritage created by generations of women walker-writers over the centuries.

]]> Pathfinding https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/pathfinding/ Thu, 13 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/?post_type=product&p=46677 The hidden histories and present-day pathways of walking and motherhood and freedom.

]]> The desire to walk is something that defines us, bringing joy, connection and freedom. But what happens to all this when we become mothers?

From the author of Wanderers, comes an urgent exploration of what it means to rediscover ourselves through the land we walk and the people we walk alongside.

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In the wake of the complete metamorphosis of becoming a mother, Kerri Andrews determines to undertake a series of journeys on foot to understand what has happened to her.  

Alongside a backpack full of supplies, Kerri carries with her the shadow of post-natal depression and the idea that maybe the hills are no longer for those, like her, who bear the mental and physical scars of childbearing and childrearing.  

Yet, what she soon discovers are tales of mother-walkers that have long been neglected or hidden away. From Mary Wollstonecraft and Ellen Weeton to Kate Chopin, here are women whose urgent stories offer new ways of stepping into motherhood.

 As Kerri traverses urban, rural and increasingly mountainous landscapes in the North West and Scotland, she is joined by women who have also experienced the profound changes that having children can bring to bodies and minds. Together, they explore the complicated ground of motherhood today – balancing enormous responsibility and upheaval with ambition, rage and hope – creating new paths as they go.  

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‘Left me itching to lace up my boots and follow the call of the path.’ Laura Pashby, author of Chasing Fog  

‘Bold, brave… I had the feeling, as I read, that Kerri Andrews might be clearing a path for us all.’  Helen Jukes, author of Mother Animal  

‘Powerful and unflinchingly honest’ Annabel Abbs, author of Windswept: Why Women Walk

]]> Way Makers https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/way-makers/ Fri, 01 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/way-makers/ A sweeping collection of women’s writing on the wandering path, moving across genres, geographies, and centuries.
 
The follow-up to the celebrated Wanderers, Kerri Andrews’s Way Makers is the first anthology of women’s writing about walking. Moving from Elizabeth Carter’s correspondence with Catherine Talbot in the eighteenth century through to Merryn Glover in the present day, and across poetry, letters, diaries, novels, and more, this anthology traces a long tradition of women’s walking literature. Walking is, for the women included in this anthology, a source of creativity and comfort; it is a means of expressing grief, longing, and desire. It is also a complicated activity: it represents freedom but is also sometimes tinged with danger and fear. What cannot be denied any longer is that walking was, and continues to be, an activity full of physical and emotional significance for women: this anthology is a testament to the rich literary heritage created by generations of women walker-writers over the centuries.

]]> Wanderers https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/wanderers/ Mon, 12 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/?post_type=product&p=14756 Offering a beguiling view of the history of walking, Wanderers guides us through the different ways of seeing-of being-articulated by ten pathfinding women writers.

“A wild portrayal of the passion and spirit of female walkers and the deep sense of ‘knowing’ that they found along the path.”-Raynor Winn, author of The Salt Path
 
“I opened this book and instantly found that I was part of a conversation I didn’t want to leave. A dazzling, inspirational history.”-Helen Mort, author of No Map Could Show Them

This is a book about ten women over the past three hundred years who have found walking essential to their sense of themselves, as people and as writers. Wanderers traces their footsteps, from eighteenth-century parson’s daughter Elizabeth Carter-who desired nothing more than to be taken for a vagabond in the wilds of southern England-to modern walker-writers such as Nan Shepherd and Cheryl Strayed. For each, walking was integral, whether it was rambling for miles across the Highlands, like Sarah Stoddart Hazlitt, or pacing novels into being, as Virginia Woolf did around Bloomsbury. Offering a beguiling view of the history of walking, Wanderers guides us through the different ways of seeing-of being-articulated by these ten pathfinding women.

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