Other writing + ephemera.

The Rise of
Tescobethan Sheds.

Extract from Iconicon on Unseen HIstories.

 

Novels about recently
built Britain.

From Beyond Black to Millennium People, on the Faber site.

How the building of Scottish Parliament became a Grand Designs nightmare.

An extract from Iconicon on the epic tale of the building of the Scottish Parliament, in the Herald.


Designing for Spies.

Extract about Terry Farrell and Vauxhall for Foyles.

Croydon Was a Mess
and So Was I.

My obsession with writing about Croydon, for Inside Croydon.

 

Last Night a Bookshop
Saved My Life.

On Gay’s the Word for The Social.

Interview: In Praise
of the Dome.

A piece by Helen Barrett, for which I’m interviewed, in the Spectator.

 

Rebooting Suburbia.

On Croydon’s post-pandemic future for the Financial Times.

Blocks Lines and Space.

On the similarities between architecture and early computer games for Read-Only Memory.

 

Review: Green Line.

Reviewing Green Line by Gilroy Mere for Caught by the River.

Interview: Brutalist Southbank.

Interviewed about my love for the brutalist Southbank Centre.

 

Review: Plotlands
of Shepperton.

Reviewing Stefan Szczelkun’s Plotlands of Shepperton for Caught by the River.

Review: The Great North Wood.

Reviewing The Great North Wood by Tim Bird for Inside Croydon.

 

Review: Another Planet.

Reviewing Tracey Thorn’s Another Planet for Caught by the River.