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Review: A Walk in the Park reviewed in The Spectator
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Event: A Walk in the Park at Peckham Review 23 June 6pm
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
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
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June 8, 2016 · 11:32 amReview: A Walk in the Park selected as a Top Ten holiday read by World Travel Guide
Full list here:
http://www.worldtravelguide.net/holidays/editorial-feature/top-10-holiday-reads-june-2016
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Review: A Walk in the Park listed as a Must Read by The Sunday Times
‘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.’
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Picture: Playing records at the Stoke Newington Literary Festival
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Picture: Discussing Utopia with Ken Worpole and Becky Hogge at the Stoke Newington Literary Festival
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Extract: A Walk in the Park
Read an extract from the introduction of A Walk in the Park online here:
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Events: Stoke Newington Literary Festival 3rd-5th June
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:
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