London — This book bench, the next in my series on the Bloomsbury Book Benches, is located just next to Senate House, in Malet Street, the headquarters of the University of London. If you know this book, you’ll know that this is the perfect location for the bench, as this iconic building features in the story. The artwork is by Oliver Dean. Here are views of the back and one end: Here’s another view ...
London — OK, so here’s number 4 in the Bloomsbury Book Benches series. I’ve called it Peter Pan (1), as there are actually two book benches representing this famous character created by J.M Barrie, although t...
London — This morning I stumbled across a reference to Books About Town - a collaborative public art project organised by the National Literacy Trust and Wild in Art that is just kicking off in London. This i...
Santa fe — I don’t want to lower the tone of Adrian Tribe’s entertaining series on London’s “Bloomsbury benches”. And I quickly concede that Daffy Duck isn’t even a character from a book. Still, he is a belove...
The Bloomsbury Book Benches #11 - The Importance of Being Earnest (Oscar Wilde)
The Bloomsbury Book Benches #9 - Hercule Poirot and the Greenshore Folly (Agatha Christie)
The Bloomsbury Book Benches #8 - Mrs Dalloway (Virginia Woolf)
The Bloomsbury Book Benches #7 - Sherlock Holmes stories (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Daffy Duck
The Bloomsbury Book Benches #6b - The Golden Sparrow (on The Day of the Triffids bench)
The Bloomsbury Book Benches #6 - The Day of the Triffids (John Wyndham)
The Bloomsbury Book Benches #5 - James Bond stories (Ian Fleming)
The Bloomsbury Book Benches #4 - Peter Pan (1) (J.M. Barrie)
The Bloomsbury Book Benches #3 - Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
The Bloomsbury Book Benches #10 - Nineteen Eighty-Four (George Orwell)
The Bloomsbury Book Benches #2 - Jeeves and Wooster (P.G. Wodehouse)
The Bloomsbury Book Benches #1 - The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe (C.S. Lewis)