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  • On tour again

    More tour dates coming up – I’ll be talking about my books, about architecture and about writing in Sheffield on Jul 14 and Manchester on Sep 16 so do come along if you’re around.

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  • We made a film about my new novel The Wall in The Head. The brilliant James Taylor directed it and you can watch it here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEFqVmGR20c

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  • The Wall in The Head

    I’ve begun funding for my new novel The Wall in The Head, which Unbound will be publishing, first as an ebook later this year. If you’d like to become a supporter of the book I’d love to have you onboard. Details of how to do that are here, and so is an extract from the…

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  • Monocle

    You can hear me on Monocle 24 talking about words and buildings if you like. I know, you know, I say ‘you know’ too much. Just so you know. https://monocle.com/radio/shows/section-d/234/

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  • More tour dates…

    Thanks a bunch to everyone who’s been coming to see me on my FIRST EVER book tour. It’s been emotional. It’s been such a pleasure to get out to Birmingham, Glasgow and of course Shoreditch(!) to meet people as interested in words and buildings as I am. There’s two more new tour tour dates on…

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  • The Night Manager

    Here’s a piece I penned for The Guardian about The Night Manager http://www.theguardian.com/travel/2016/mar/27/the-night-manager-locations-morocco-switzerland-mallorca-london

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  • RIP The Indy

    Just before the Independent closed its print edition, I wrote two final stories for the papers. One on the excellent film High Rise http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/features/a-guide-to-property-on-screen-from-high-rises-tower-block-to-sex-and-the-citys-apartments-a6926036.html and one on… hovercraft! http://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/cross-channel-hovercrafts-50th-birthday-this-technology-has-been-quietly-advancing-over-the-decades-a6935001.html

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  • The Long & Short of it

    I’ve been writing a few pieces for The Long & Short, the magazine of NESTA, about big plans for cities and what became of them. You can have a read here http://thelongandshort.org/authors/christopher-beanland

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  • If you’re in the UK you can catch me on a brief book tour in spring 2016 talking about buildings, brutalism, writing and more. Dates below. Please do stop by and say hello afterwards. And if you want to get in touch always feel free to drop me a line via the contact page on…

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  • OUT NOW

    Concrete Concept is out now from all good book shops and of course Amazon http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0711237646. Here’s what The Telegraph thought of it http://www.telegraph.co.uk/art/artists/why-we-must-learn-to-love-brutalist-architecture/ Roger Lewis in The Times meanwhile thought “The text of this book, which profiles 50 brutalist beasts, is witty, lively and informative. The numerous photographs are first class. Concrete Concept gave me new eyes.”…

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