Julian Mash and myself after our event in Notting Hill Gate Waterstones
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Postcards from Victoria Park: At the V&A Playground
The V is for Victoria. But the A came as a surprise. Alexandra rather than Albert: the old Queen’s daughter in law, rather than her much-mourned German consort, with his hall, memorial and a kind of piercing….
Read on or not, as the case may be:
http://chisenhale.org.uk/archive/offsite/index.php?id=37
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Capital Talk, myself and Julian Mash chatting about London at Waterstones Notting Hill 8 July 7pm
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Newsnight – 18 June – talking about Dreamland while on a Merry-Go-Round
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DJ-ing at County Hall at the 32 Londoners event on 11 June 2015
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Saddle-shoes as worn at the Stoke Newington Literary Festival 2015 and elsewhere
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Hosting Gin & the Georgians with Olivia Williams and Lucy Inglis at the Stoke Newington Literary Festival 2015
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London Lost and Found Event – Stoke Newington Literary Festival Sat 6 June 2pm The Prince Pub, Kynaston Road N16
“London changes so constantly that we barely notice it, but many famous neighbourhoods and landmarks in London have vanished and been forgotten. Conversely, in 1957, the River Thames was declared biologically dead yet today it teems with over 125 species of fish. Tom Bolton, (The Vanished City: London’s Lost Neighbourhoods), Caitlin Davies, whose latest book Downstream is a celebration of swimming the Thames and Travis Elborough, (London Bridge in America and The Bus We Loved) consider the shifting pieces of the capital.”
Tickets £4 more info here:
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My piece on Alison Lurie’s The Nowhere City in the Summer Issue of Slightly Foxed – out 1 June 2015
A have a piece on Alison Lurie’s novel The Nowhere City, a neglected comic masterpiece set in Los Angeles in the 1950s, in the Summer issue of Slightly Foxed out on 1 June 2015.
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Screening archive Super 8 footage of the Victoria Park Model Steam Boat Club in the boathouse
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Travis Elborough 