The London Cheapo website is featuring Juliet Rix’s London’s Statues of Women, and specifically recommending its Statue Safaris around central London.
Juliet Rix interviewed on BBC News website about London's statues of women
The unveiling in a London park of the capital’s latest statue of a woman, landscape gardener Fanny Wilkinson, saw Juliet Rix, author of London’s Statues of Women, interviewed by Radio London for the BBC News website.
Juliet Rix writes about London's statues of women in the Express
Juliet Rix, author of the just-published London’s Statues of Women, has written a superb double-page feature on the subject in the Daily Express.
Travis Elborough reviews Croydonopolis for the TLS
Travis Elborough recently gave Croydonopolis an extensive review in the Times Literary Supplement. While acknowledging it to be ‘an unashamedly boosterish survey’, he concedes that it ‘mostly succeeds in persuading the sceptical to give the place a second look’.
The Captain has spoken . . . on Croydonopolis
The Damned weren’t just the first punk band to release a single, and then an album: they are the best band ever to come out of Croydon, and their lead guitarist, Captain Sensible, is one of the town’s most distinguished ambassadors. So the Croydon-born publisher of Croydonopolis is truly proud to report that the Captain has declared himself a fan of the book with a fulsome verdict on Facebook - and accompanying plug on Instagram - to his 64,000+ followers, praising ‘a stonking read’.
IanVisits reviews Croydonopolis
In his widely read London blog Ian Mansfield has given Croydonopolis a long and approving review. ‘“Croydon?” sneered Kenneth Williams, “sounds more like an illness.” Many might agree with this opinion,’ Ian admits, ‘but maybe you’ll downgrade it to a mild sniffle after reading this amusing history of the city that never was . . . The writing style will amuse anyone who reads it,’ he concludes, ‘and they might look at Croydon, if not more fondly, certainly a lot more informed about it.’
The Church Times gives a great review to Croydonopolis
The 29 November issue of the Church Times carries a long and affectionate review of Will Noble’s book, by a Croydonian member of the clergy. For Peter Graystone ‘Will Noble’s delightful and extremely funny book is a love letter to the southernmost borough of London - a town that throughout its history has repeatedly aimed high, dazzled, crashed, and burned.’ ‘For a Croydonian such as I am, every page contains another nostalgic pleasure,’ he declares, before wondering, ‘Will it have the same appeal for someone who has never visited?’ His conclusion is that the stories of such protagonists of Croydon’s history as Amy Johnson and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor ‘are told with such aplomb that they have a universal appeal.’
Andrew Martin's Reading on Trains blog reviews Croydonopolis
In his new Books Special round-up on his Substack blog Reading on Trains Andrew Martin reviews Croydonopolis. If, like him, you come from somewhere like York, he muses, ‘which was compared to Florence only last week in the Spectator, you’re likely to have a pitying attitude towards Croydon, which could easily shade into contempt.’ But, he continues, ‘having read Will Noble’s book, Croydonopolis: A Journey to the City That Never Was, I’m much better disposed towards Croydon. I might even get off the train there one day, but I doubt it will give me as much pleasure as Noble’s witty and very readable prose’ - and goes so far as to conclude that ‘a plaque bearing his name should appear on one of those blustery street corners.’
Popular podcast No Such Thing as a Fish features Croydonopolis
The latest episode, recorded in front of 2,000 people at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, devotes its first 11 minutes to the subject of Croydon and Will Noble’s book, which it praises as ‘fantastic’. ‘If you only buy one book about Croydon this year . . .’ it advises.
A positive review of London's Street Trees in the newsletter of the Botanical Society
The new edition of London’s Street Trees is reviewed in the latest newsletter of the BSBI. ‘I strongly recommend this book,’ concludes the reviewer Clive Stace - one of Britain’s most eminent botanists - ‘to beginners and experts alike’.