Walking Festival: The Walking Cure with Annabel Streets
Join Annabel Streets to hear about her book The Walking Cure at Waterstones MK
MK Literary Festival are really pleased to present Annabel Streets and her amazing book The Walking Cure at Waterstones in Milton Keynes as a highlight of Day 1 of the MK Walking Festival 2026!
Event Location - Waterstones, Unit 72, Midsummer Place
What 3 Words Location - ever.putts.tasteful
The right place, walked at the right time, can heal, energise, restore and inspire. Instead of ambling the same old track, find a route to match and mend your mood - and prepare to be astonished. Join Annabel Streets to explore the curative and therapeutic benefits of both rural and urban landscapes: from mountains to meadows, disused railway lines to rivers, and coastal cliffs to city parks. She investigates how walking benefits us not only physically, but also how we see, feel and experience ourselves and the world.
With warmth, wisdom and a compelling blend of anecdotal and scientific evidence, Streets identifies the perfect place to walk whatever your mood. Whether it be a canal path to spark creativity, a bustling city to allay boredom or the coastline to heal grief and worry. The Walking Cure celebrates the joy of walking and shares the extraordinary health benefits that landscape unlocks.
Annabel Streets is an award-winning writer of highly-researched fiction and non-fiction. Her first practical walking book, 52 Ways to Walk, was a widely reviewed bestseller. As Annabel Abbs, she is the author of Windswept: Why Women Walk, voted a top ten 2021 travel book. She has written for a wide range of titles, including the Guardian, Daily Mail, Telegraph, Tatler and the Paris Review, and is a Fellow of the Brown Foundation. The Walking Cure: Harness the Life-changing Power of Landscape to Heal, Energise and Inspire was published in paperback in March 2026.
More about Annabel: www.annabelabbs.com
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Check out this year's programme which features over 30 walks across the city.
