A remarkable send-off
I’ve decided – at least in the first draft – to start my book on John McLaren with his death. That may seem a little odd but the thing I find most remarkable about him...
Category: Golden Gate Park
The view that started it all
I met up with the general manager of Golden Gate Park last week – a lovely man called Dave Iribarne – to get a sense of what it was like to run a 1,000-acre public...
A haul of documents
I love tracking down a good story. So I was excited to receive in the post this weekend a package of roughly 60 pages of old, yellowing paper: notes for a book that was never...