Amelia's Blog

Poppies Galore! Which ones should you grow? Grab a poppy seed-encrusted soft bap, bagel or something stronger and get all the gen

Does good news eventually come if you are a writer? Yes! Walking into Alchemy is now in the top 100 in the Fitness Through Walking category

Like all children from 3 to 83, I wanted snow at Christmas, but we did not get any. A few days before Christmas, however, we had a...

Is it worth giving book readings? The short answer to this question is yes. It can be a good way to sell copies of one's book; that's one...

Well, look no further! Come along to my free to attend Book Reading/Signing for Walking into Alchemy. I will be visiting the UK for a few...

My regular subscribers know about my book Walking into Alchemy, of course, and I am so grateful to have had your support during the past...

Many of you read Sam Richard’s excellent blog post about Imogen Holst, which I published on my site a few weeks ago. Sam has returned to...

The Beautiful, The Sublime, and Me: Walking On the Malvern Hills and in Southern Austria During the three years that I was writing my...

"There is a willow grows aslant a brook." Shakespeare, Nature and Mental Health By Amelia Marriette As the weather begins to improve and...

(auf Deutsch) Unsere Startnext-Kampagne ist geöffnet! Ich möchte mein erfolgreiches Buch Walking into Alchemy als deutsche Ausgabe...

I was a curator working in a museum in South Devon in the UK; this was my dream job. Suddenly, the local council made my job redundant...

My article about the Gustav Holst Way appears in the January 2021 edition of Cotswold Life Magazine – you still have time to grab a copy!...

Full many a glorious morning have I seen Flatter the mountain tops with sovereign eye, Kissing with golden face the meadows green,...

It’s the time of year when, like most of us, I feel reflective and perhaps even a little melancholy. Have I achieved all that I wanted to...

When I relocated from South Devon in the UK to Bad Sankt Leonhard in the Carinthian region of Austria in 2015 one of the things I was...

Dr Kerri Andrew's new book Wanderers: A History of Women Walking is a long-overdue work and is a very welcome addition to the canon. Dr...

At the beginning of the virus, I was like most people afraid and worried. But most of us believed that it would all be over by the autumn...

Amelia Marriette, author of Walking into Alchemy, blogs about Opera North and their Walking Home: Sound Journeys for Lockdown Project

In the second of our Zoom talks, Jackie Baker asks Amelia Marriette author of Walking into Alchemy: The Transformative Power of Nature about

The first in a series of virtual interviews -