John Walsh
Prolific writer and commentator John Walsh contributes two weekly columns to the paper, Tales of the City and BTW, as well as writing features, interviews and restaurant reviews. He has been editor of The Independent Magazine, literary editor of the Sunday Times and features editor of the London Evening Standard. His latest novel, Sunday at the Cross Bones, was published in 2007.
Recently by John Walsh
John Walsh: I wonder what a quilting bee inside a maximum security wing is like
Tuesday, 30 March 2010
Tales of the City
John Walsh: College reunions give us a chance to monitor each other's, ahem, progress
Tuesday, 23 March 2010
Tales of the City
John Walsh: Discussions are raging over whether bullfighting and siestas are art forms
Tuesday, 16 March 2010
Tales of the City
John Walsh: In 1937, the enemy invasion was youths on bikes in leather shorts
Tuesday, 9 March 2010
Tales of the City
John Walsh: Depressed estate agents need something to perk up their drooping spirits
Tuesday, 2 March 2010
Tales of the City
John Walsh: How can anyone be allergic to lettuce? It's 90 per cent water isn't it?
Tuesday, 23 February 2010
Tales of the City
John Walsh: 'The classroom of the future will be very odd if the Tories have their way'
Tuesday, 16 February 2010
Tales of the City
John Walsh: 'I thought the roads in Kazakhstan were bad. But potholes in London...'
Tuesday, 9 February 2010
Tales of the City
John Walsh: 'The little sadists will insist on cigarettes being sold singly in paper bags'
Tuesday, 2 February 2010
Tales of the City
Reflections on Salinger
Friday, 29 January 2010
John Walsh: Here was an author who wrote the way people spoke
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