Mark Ovenden’s excellent CATCH-cast programme on Vectis Radio, interviewing writers who weave a transport dimension into their works, devoted episode 32 to Andrew Martin in a fascinating and wide-ranging 20-minute conversation about his many novels and non-fiction books, including Seats of London and The Moquette Mystery.
The Yarnstorm blog praises The Moquette Mystery
The textiles blog Yarnstorm written by Jane Brocket (with 4,000 subscribers) has reviewed Andrew Martin’s ‘enjoyable’ The Moquette Mystery, finding that ‘the textile details are many and fascinating’.
Andrew Martin writes about The Moquette Mystery in his Reading on Trains blog
Andrew Martin has devoted the 65th instalment of his weekly Substack blog on trains to ‘The Magic and Mystery of Moquette’, and the unique experience of shaping a crime novel about it.
The Camden New Journal talks to Andrew Martin about The Moquette Mystery
The Camden New Journal’s Dan Carrier talked to Andrew Martin for a long feature about The Moquette Mystery, and praised ‘a brilliantly readable murder mystery’.
The Londonist talks to Andrew Martin about The Moquette Mystery, and makes it book of the week
Andrew Martin talked about his new detective novel to the popular Londonist website, which has also included the book in its Christmas gift guide.
Crime Time blog interviews Andrew Martin about The Moquette Mystery
The Crime Time blog, run by the Financial Times’s crime fiction reviewer Barry Forshaw, has talked to Andrew Martin about his new detective novel The Moquette Mystery.
Robert Elms interviews Juliet Rix about London's Statues of Women on his BBC Radio London show
In a long and wide-ranging interview on 2 August, Robert Elms talked to Juliet Rix on his Saturday morning Radio London show about London’s Statues of Women - even touching on more out-of-the-way subjects like Sister Nivedita in Wimbledon.
Woman's Hour hosts a fascinating discussion on London's Statues of Women with Juliet Rix and Joy Battick
Woman’s Hour on 25 July included a long and compelling discussion on London’s Statues of Women. Presenter Nuala McGovern’s guests included Juliet Rix, the author, and Joy Battick, unique in being the only living woman in London, as well as woman of colour, to have two statues of herself in the capital, facing each other on opposite platforms on Brixton railway station.
Midge Gillies gives a talk on The Barbed-Wire University for Toppings of Ely
The excellent independent bookshop Toppings of Ely (based in Midge Gillies’ home town) hosted a highly successful talk by the author about her book - recently reissued by Safe Haven in an updated and revised edition - at a local church. The event was extremely well attended, and Toppings sold all their substantial stock.
Juliet Rix and Safe Haven Books launch London's Statues of Women at St Dunstan in the West church
Juliet Rix and Joy Battick at the launch.
Juliet signing a copy for Rebecca Hawkins, sculptor of Lai Dai Han Mother and Child statue in St James’s Gardens.
Over 60 people filled the remarkable Fleet Street Church of St Dunstan in the West for the official launch of London’s Statues of Women - chosen by the author because it hosts, in its statue of Elizabeth I to the right of the entrance, the oldest statue of a named woman anywhere in the capital. A number of sculptors whose works appear in the book came along, including Mary Millner (Ada Lovelace), Rebecca Hawkins (Lai Dai Han), Catherine Anne Laugel (young Victoria) and Kevin Atherton (Joy Battick, twice). Joy herself also came, along with her daughter. We sold, and Juliet signed, every copy of the stock of books we brought.