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Jan 20, 2025 | 
telegraph.co.uk | Nicholas Smith
Another old part of London is to be spanking new again. Eleven years after the exhibition centre was demolished, 160 years after the railways arrived, over 900 years since the de Vere family first built their eponymous manor house, Earl’s Court is being remade from the cleared earth. Will it work? Will the new Earl’s Court become a funky and valuable Shoreditch for west London, as hoped?
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
telegraph.co.uk | Nicholas Smith
Depending on who you ask, the capital is either a crime-sodden hellhole or a tourist-tempting honeypot. So which is it?
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Aug 3, 2024 | 
redcarpetcrash.com | Alli Dyer |Ann Cleeves |Jenny Colgan |Nicholas Smith
The book is in stores on Tuesday, August 6th from Atria. Click on the link to buy a copy. https://amzn.to/4bH4dk5A woman returns to her estranged, magical family in Appalachia, where a conjuring meant to protect the community may have summoned something sinister in this lush, shimmering, and wildly imaginative debut novel, perfect for fans of Alice Hoffman, Deborah Harkness, and Sarah Addison Allen. Lee left Craw Valley at eighteen without a backward glance.
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Aug 3, 2024 | 
redcarpetcrash.com | Nicholas Smith |Ann Cleeves |Jenny Colgan
The book is in stores on Tuesday, August 6th from Blackstone. Click on the link to buy a copy. https://amzn.to/4ehkHlsTwo final dives. One mission that will determine the fate of humanity—forever. The Forerunner has decimated the Vanguard Islands in a surprise attack from the Trident warship. King Kade Long—seeing no alternative—accepts a peace deal, committing to a perilous mission with X, the “Immortal,” to activate weather-modification reactors at the poles.
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Aug 3, 2024 | 
redcarpetcrash.com | Jenny Colgan |Ann Cleeves |Nicholas Smith
The book is in stores on Tuesday, August 6th from Avon. Click on the link to buy a copy. https://amzn.to/449THQ3In the northernmost reaches of Scotland, where a string of little islands in the North Sea stretches towards Norway, lives Gertie MacIntyre, a proud island girl by birth. Her social circle is small but tight: family and friends, particularly the women in her knitting circle.
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Aug 3, 2024 | 
redcarpetcrash.com | Ann Cleeves |Jenny Colgan |Nicholas Smith
Rock star Prince makes a spectacular feature film debut in this highly autobiographical blockbuster that won both an Oscar® and a Grammy®. Headstrong, vulnerable young musician The Kid (Prince) struggles with his own inner demons and with his alcoholic father who beats his mother. But the madness infects his music, fueling a sound that transforms the struggling young rocker into a star. Latest posts by RedCarpetCrash (see all)
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Jul 30, 2024 | 
telegraph.co.uk | Nicholas Smith
Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner during her visit to Bloor Homes housing development site in Basingstoke, Hampshire, following the announcement of sweeping changes to England's planning system It used to be completely culturally normal to expect new buildings and places to be beautiful and popular; an asset to their neighbourhoods, not a liability. The great visionaries, the nineteenth-century seers who created the National Trust, the Garden Cities, and the first halting steps that became...
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Jul 16, 2024 | 
ca.style.yahoo.com | Nicholas Smith
Warsaw's historical centre was almost entirely rebuilt after the Second World War - Getty ImagesTwentieth century Europe unleashed unprecedented destructive violence upon itself. Hundreds of cities were shelled, mortared, fire-bombed and fought over. Steeples were toppled, cathedrals levelled, cloth halls and town halls pulverised and streets so ruined that their very course could no longer be discerned beneath the bluffs and gullies of heaped rubble.
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Jan 18, 2024 | 
sports.yahoo.com | Nicholas Smith
Everything about the Metropolitan Line is richly English.
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Oct 6, 2023 | 
telegraph.co.uk | Nicholas Smith
So HS2 is going to Euston. Probably. The high-speed rail link is not going to peter out pathetically in a west London common. It will continue to the site of London’s oldest terminus facing north, chosen as an appropriate location by the great Robert Stephenson in 1837 over the competing charms of the Strand, Tyburn and Camden Town.
