Stoke Newington Literary Festival - Friday 3 June 2022
This video was produced by Simon Poulter and Dr Pete Gomes and will form part of a full length movie about the A10 Live project.
On-line Event - Tuesday 14 December 2021, 7.00 pm
Andrew Stuck has invited me to join him in his Walking Writers Salon. Andrew is the founder of the Museum of Walking, created to bring people together and to make and showcase walking pieces and performances. Andrew also is a podcaster, interviewing creative people who use walking as a catalyst for their practice. Called Talking Walking, this is now in its twelfth year with more than 100 episodes.
Live Event -Thursday 9 December 2021, 7.30 pm
I will be in conversation with Travis Elborough, talking about The Suburbanist. Described by The Guardian as ‘one of the country’s finest pop culture historians’, Travis is a writer, author, broadcaster and cultural commentator. His books include Wish You Were Here: England on Sea, The Long-Player Goodbye (a hymn to vinyl records that inspired the BBC4 documentary When Albums Ruled the World) and A Walk in the Park, a loving exploration of public parks and green space. Through the Looking Glasses: The Spectacular Life of Spectacles was published in July 2021 to immediate acclaim, saluted as ‘fascinating’ by The Observer. The latest in his collaborations with the cartographer Martin Brown, Atlas of Forgotten Places, has just been released.
First Review of The Suburbanist
Thanks to Mr Will Wiles, architecture and design journalist and award winning author of such fine works as Care of Wooden Floors, The Way Inn and Plume.
The Suburbanist
A Personal Account and Ambivalent Celebration of Life in the Suburbs, with Field Notes.
Publication date: 11 November 2021
ISBN: 9781905128327
Pages: 250
Format: Paperback
Glostorama!
In 2014, under the leadership of Del Barrett, the Royal Photographic Society used my novel Bleeding London as the basis of a project to photograph every street in the city. In the book one of my characters, Stuart London, walks the complete length and breadth of the capital. 1700 photographers (professionals, amateurs, tourists and life-long residents) participated to produce over 50,000 photographs.
Now, Del and the Hundred Heroines – a charity she founded, dedicated to promoting women in photography – are rolling out the project in Gloucester. You can find all the details here:
Glostorama! Photographing Gloucester street by street (hundredheroines.org)
and here’s an interview I did with podcaster Enez Nathie for the Hundred Heroines.
