Suxi Feay’s Book Bag vlog on YouTube has as its most recent interview a long conversation with Will Noble about his book Croydonopolis: is it, she wonders, ‘a love letter to Croydon’?
Retail Insider reviews Croydonopolis
On his Retail Insider blog, Glynn Davis has given Croydonopolis an extremely positive review, praising Will Noble’s ‘breezy style, weaving humour, history and facts in a very readable manner’ and, while concentrating on the town’s retail history, acknowledging that the author ‘does a sterling job of also telling the story of its architecture, music, art and impressive countryside and gardens’.
Richard Williams reviews Croydonopolis on The Blue Moment
The distinguished music critic Richard Williams has given Croydonopolis an affectionate and extremely enthusiastic review on his popular blog The Blue Moment (29 September), recalling his own experience of seeing an early Roxy Music gig at the Greyhound there, and praising the book as ‘extremely absorbing’ and ‘a fascinating read’.
Croydonopolis event at the Golden Ark
On Tuesday 24 September Croydonopolis author Will Noble and Safe Haven publisher Graham Coster were in conversation at the Golden Ark micropub in Selsdon, South Croydon about the book and Croydon’s history.
Will Noble draws a large crowd for his Croydon talk for Open House
On 19 September, as part of the 2024 Open House programme in London, Croydonopolis author Will Noble drew a sizeable audience to the Braithwaite Hall for his talk on the town’s remarkable history, which was followed by a long queue to buy signed copies.
Will Noble interviewed on BBC Radio London about Croydonopolis
On 6 September Will Noble appeared on the Robert Elms Show on Radio London, in a long and wide-ranging interview with Elms’s stand-in David Grant about Croydon. The conversation starts around 39 minutes 30 seconds into the show. Later that day Will also appeared on Times Radio talking about his book.
Croydonopolis receives an excellent review in the Spectator
In this week’s Spectator Helen Barrett review’s Will Noble’s Croydonopolis at length, praising a ‘gutsy, charming book’. ‘For all its debt, deprivation and concrete’, she concludes, ‘at its best Croydon was a dynamic, heroic place. In many ways it remains so . . . We need Croydon’s brio, its spirit of futurism, more than ever.’
Will Noble writes about Croydon for CNN Travel
Croydonopolis author Will Noble has just published a long piece on the CNN Travel website about the remarkable history of Croydon Airport - birthplace of continental passenger flights in the UK, and London’s first airport.
Inside Croydon reviews Croydonopolis
The Croydon news website Inside Croydon has reviewed Will Noble’s Croydonopolis at length, the reviewer David Morgan praising ‘a book that will be read and discussed in a variety of groups’ as ‘a quirky and entertaining read’ and recommending that it ‘become a standard for progressive sixth-form history and geography departments’.
Paul Wood sells out another Street Trees talk at Stanfords
On 29 September Paul Wood gave another sold-out talk at Stanfords in Covent Garden to celebrate the publication of the third edition of London’s Street Trees, and afterwards signed a goodly number of books.
