The Revival is one of those special, end-of-summer events. I like it even more when the Weekend FT Festival sits back-to-back with it in my calendar. That means I head into the autumn full of octane and opinion.
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Book signing at Motor Books, Cecil Court, London: Saturday, 22 August 2009
Motor Books (1957-2013) was a fabulous, double-fronted book shop covering all aspects of transport, located in that little part of the West End rammed full of fabulous book shops. I was delighted that my first signing was there, and touched that there were posters in the windows advertising that I was coming.
If you don’t ask, you don’t get
The death of John Haynes OBE, creator of the Haynes Manual, and founder of the publishing group and museum that bear his name, causes me to recall an exchange of letters I had with him in January 2007 which quite literally changed my life.