Travis Elborough

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

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

Full list here:

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

‘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