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Forthcoming: New paperback edition of Letters to Change the World out on 24 June 2021

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January 17, 2021 · 6:36 pm
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Books: Forthcoming, Through the Looking Glasses: The Spectacular Life of Spectacles (Little Brown, July 2021)

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January 2, 2021 · 6:31 pm
October 22, 2020 · 4:39 pm

Read: The Happy Reader Issue 15

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I have an article in the latest issue of The Happy Reader on the extraordinary writer Lafacadio Hearn’s time as a reporter in Cincinnati, Ohio in the 1870s.

Read more here:

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October 18, 2020 · 4:24 pm

Picture: Modern Ruins, Holiday Park, Indianapolis

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August 31, 2020 · 11:24 am

Listen: BBC Radio 4 The Rise and Fall of the Antique 11.45 am, Sun 6 Sept

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My five-part documentary series The and Fall of the Antique is getting a repeat airing on BBC Radio 4 each Sunday at 11.45 am from 6 September.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0bd7zhp

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Book: Italian paperback edition of Letters to Change the World

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August 5, 2020 · 6:28 pm
July 17, 2020 · 8:46 am

Review: Atlas of Vanishing Places in Outlook Traveller

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Read online here:

https://www.outlookindia.com/outlooktraveller/explore/story/70678/6-books-map-lovers-must-read

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July 8, 2020 · 5:30 pm

Listen: BBC Radio 4, From Our Home Correspondent, talking about the future of tarot reading in Brighton

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Listen online here:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000kp55

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June 20, 2020 · 1:51 pm

Watch: When Pop Went Epic, BBC4, i-Player

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A repeat screening of When Pop Went Epic: The Crazy World of the Concept Album featuring contributions from me, up now on BBC i-player:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b079s0n0

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Picture: A Walk in the Park in the Not the Stoke Newington Literary Festival display, Stoke Newington Bookshop

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June 11, 2020 · 4:15 pm