If I see a Peter Ackroyd book, I'll generally pick it up. This historian (I've recently heard that he's a novelist too) has a nice, anecdotal but informative writing style, and researches his books thoroughly. They are often very long, so when this one arrived, I was surprised that it's about the length of a …
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A Walk in the Park: Regent’s Park, London.
One of the great things about living on London is that it's such a green city. There are loads of parks here, where you can wander around, smell the roses or feed the ducks. Some of these places are Royal Parks, which means that although they're open to the public, they're actually crown land. One …
If you go down to the woods today… A Local Ghost Story.
Traffic is slow, and we're chatting about nothing as we round the curve and see the police tape and tired looking cops standing around in the rain. I've seen enough crime shows to know what a crime scene looks like. Whatever happened, it was really close to the road, and the tape everywhere means that …
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