The 20th Century Society reviewed Seats of London in its latest magazine and praised Andrew Martin’s ‘wittily written book’.
New magazine The Critic praises A Field of Tents and Waving Colours
The first issue of new comment and polemic magazine The Critic devotes a double-page review by the renowned cricket writer Michael Henderson to Neville Cardus, in which he praises A Field of Tents and Eaving Colours as ‘a handsome introducton to Cardus’. ‘In the years ahead’, he concludes, ‘when our cricket is given increasingly to the T20 thrash and something called The Hundred, we shall revisit Cardus to restore our spirits, and very possibly to revive our souls.’
Seats of London featured in the Observer
The Art Gallery section of the Observer includes a striking moquette feature based on Seats of London.
Cat reads Seats of London
Mags the Norwegian forest cat, who features in Seats of London contemplating a pristine Routemaster moquette footstool crying out for claw-sharpening, seen here appraising the account of himself on page 81.
Andrew Martin signs copies of Seats of London at the London Transport Museum's Acton Depot open weekend
On Sunday 29 September Andrew Martin gave a well-attended talk on London moquette at the LT Museum’s Acton depot, during one of their open weekends, and then signed copies. Note the bespoke moquette waistcoat and baker boy’s cap in the background, and the small shoulder bag in classic Routemaster moquette for only £55, whose dimensions appear to have been designed perfectly for holding a single copy of Seats of London.
Time Out features Seats of London
The London listings magazine Time Out has run a colourful feature on Seats of London in its London Eye section.
The Londonist features '13 moquette patterns you didn't know existed'
The Londonist website has a feature on Seats of London, selecting ‘13 moquette patterns you didn’t know existed’.
Seats of London launched at Woven Memories
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’.