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‘A Walk in the Park by Travis Elborough (Cape £18.99): beautifully written history of parks from their origins in commons and aristocratic estates to now.’

Read an extract from the introduction of A Walk in the Park online here:

https://www.penguin.co.uk/articles/find-your-next-read/extracts/2016/jun/a-walk-in-the-park-by-travis-elborough/

I will be appearing at the Stoke Newington Literary Festival this weekend. I am chairing an event celebrating five hundred years of More’s Utopia with Ken Worpole and Becky Hogge, talking to Richard King about records and talking about parks with Pete Brown and Mark Mason, among other things.

The full programme is online here:

The Programme

Flattered to have been very favourably reviewed by Gillian Darley in the Literary Review, ‘fast paced and richly peopled… this book is the story of the communal and the individual, of the transgressor and the good citizen, of earth, turf and concrete.’

Online link here: https://literaryreview.co.uk/no-running-no-cycling-no-ball-games

Another great review of A Walk in the Park by Rachel Cooke in The Observer. Read in full online here:

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/may/30/walk-in-park-life-and-times-of-peoples-insitution-travis-elborough-review

A lovely review of A Walk in the Park by Daisy Dunn in The Times – ‘a worthy paean to the importance of parks to British life. His book is impassioned, informative and just a little bit cool.’

Link here:

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/saturday-review/books-a-walk-in-the-park-the-life-and-times-of-a-peoples-institution-by-travis-elborough-x8gjjzgkc

I will be appearing at the End of the Road Festival in September.

More details here: http://endoftheroadfestival.com