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Event: Leytonstone Festival, The Wanstead Tap, 5 July 7pm

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I will be appearing at the Wanstead Tap as part of the Leytonstone Festival on 5 July at 7pm. Full details here:

http://www.newhambooks.co.uk/2016/traviselborough.php

 

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Picture: A Walk in the Park on sale in various bookshops

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June 28, 2016 · 8:50 am

Event: A Walk in the Park at the Bookseller Crow, Crystal Palace, Sunday 3rd July 4pm

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More details here:

http://booksellercrow.co.uk/event/walk-park-travis-elborough/

 

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Review: Mail on Sunday reviews A Walk in the Park

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Review: A Walk in the Park reviewed by William Boyd in The Guardian

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An incredibly lovely review of A Walk in the Park by William Boyd in The Guardian.

‘William Boyd gives his definition of a park, and praises a wonderful book, full of learning and enthusiasm, that insists we need to cherish and protect these ‘people’s institutions’…

‘This is a fascinating, informative, revelatory book…’ Read in full online here:

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/jun/18/a-walk-in-the-park-the-life-and-times-of-a-peoples-institution-travis-elborough-review

 

 

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Review: A Walk in the Park reviewed in The Spectator

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Read online here:

http://www.spectator.co.uk/2016/06/from-versailles-to-the-town-bandstand-the-story-of-the-public-park/

 

 

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Event: A Walk in the Park at Peckham Review 23 June 6pm

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I am appearing at the Review Bookshop in Peckham on Thursday 23rd June at 6pm.

Book a ticket here:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-walk-in-the-park-with-travis-elborough-tickets-25232767888

 

 

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Review: Financial Times on A Walk in the Park

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Amazing review of A Walk in the Park by Andrew Martin in the Financial Times:

‘Travis Elborough is the affectionate chronicler of faded Englishness. He has been described as “the hipster Bill Bryson”, and it is a mystery to some of us why he is not as well-known as Bryson. His books have so far covered the Routemaster bus, the long-playing record, and the sale of London Bridge (“the world’s largest antique”, as he put it) to a Texan millionaire.

Here he tackles public parks. The story of their evolution from aristocratic hunting grounds into public utilities might have taken on the dowdy parochialism often associated with the parks themselves. But Elborough is a social historian who also happens to be funnier than most supposed “humorists”… ‘

Read in full  here:

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/5b07fe36-2bf5-11e6-bf8d-26294ad519fc.html

 

 

 

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Review: Hackney Citizen/East End Review on A Walk in the Park

Their website here: http://hackneycitizen.co.uk

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June 8, 2016 · 11:32 am

Review: A Walk in the Park selected as a Top Ten holiday read by World Travel Guide

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Full list here:

http://www.worldtravelguide.net/holidays/editorial-feature/top-10-holiday-reads-june-2016

 

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