Seats of London was launched at the Clerkenwell showrooms in London of Camira, the manufacturers of all TfL’s transport moquette, at their event ‘Woven Memories’. Here is the author, Andrew Martin (attired in a waistcoat made out of four London Transport moquettes of varying vintage), with Camira’s Design Manager Ciara Crossan, against a backdrop of further London moquettes.
The Spectator reviews A Field of Tents and Waving Colours
In his review of Duncan Hamilton’s Cardus biography The Great Romantic and Safe Haven’s Cardus collection A Field of Tents and Waving Colours, Marcus Berkmann concludes that Gideon Haigh (who introduces the latter) admits that ‘Cardus was the most important of cricket writers; and if this distinction is of the slightest importance to you, you will enjoy these two books very much indeed.’
The Cricketer reviews A Field of Tents and Waving Colours
The Cricketer magazine’s review of Neville Cardus’s A Field of Tents and Waving Colours hails ‘the perfect read on a summer’s afternoon in the garden, or better yet… on the boundary’.
A Field of Tents and Waving Colours reviewed in Wisden Cricket Monthly
‘A lovely companion [to Duncan Hamilton’s The Great Romantic] in a charming jacket with an excellent introduction by Gideon Haigh.’
The Daily Mail reviews A Field of Tents and Waving Colours
The Daily Mail reviews A Field of Tents and Waving Colours, along with Duncan Hamilton’s The Great Romantic, and Roger Alton celebrates ‘two beautiful books’, and in particular ‘a beautiful little collection of the best of Cardus’s writing’.
A great review for The Flying Boat That Fell to Earth in Flypast magazine
An excellent review in the August issue of Flypast, the largest-circulation monthly newsstand magazine on aviation, praises The Flying Boat That Fell to Earth as an ‘evocative exploration of the golden age of air travel.’ ‘Beautifully written’, it concludes, ‘with poetic strains and a hint of melancholy in places, Coster’s book is a fine homage to the flying boat.’
Country Walking magazine features Yorkshire Coast Path
Country Walking, the UK’s bestselling walking magazine, has just featured Yorkshire Coast Path in its July issue as one of ‘Two Coastal Corkers’, noting its ‘detailed route descriptions, OS mapping and in-depth features on points of interest along the way’.
London Street Trees in the London Magazine
Paul Wood, author of London’s Street Trees (now in its third printing) and now London Is A Forest (Quadrille), has an article on the capital’s trees in the latest issue of the London Magazine.
A Hackney street tree walk with London Street Trees' Paul Wood
Paul Wood, author of London’s Street Trees and the just-published London Is a Forest (Quadrille) joined the London Borough of Hackney’s tree officer Rupert Bentley Walls to lead a walk around the streets of Clapton to appreciate the amazing diversity of species Rupert and his team have planted around this ‘urban arboretum’. Organised by councillor Vincent Stops, the walk attracted a turnout over over 40 people, all of whom were amazed to be shown by Rupert magnolias, dogwoods, laburnum/broom grafts (flowering different colours on alternate sides of the tree), numerous rare species of birch, and a Mongolian lime - amongst others. Here the party gathers at the walk’s end opposite the Elderfield pub beneath a Kentucky Coffee Tree.
The Yorkshire Post's Saturday magazine devotes its cover and a feature to Yorkshire Coast Path
On Saturday 13 April the Yorkshire Post devoted the front cover of its colour magazine and a feature inside to Andrew Vine’s new Yorkshire Coast Path walking guide. A second feature follows next week.