It is a strange book, recording a journey along the escarpment of land around the north of London (much of which is familiar to me). AN INDEPENDENT BOOK OF THE YEAR An extraordinary book by a man with a unique and inspiring perspective, SCARP will change the way you view the places and spaces around you, and reveal a forgotten London you never knew existed. He accepts its stories, often it's casualties without judgement and most importantly without recourse to human sciences or politics to justify the links he makes.

The first series examined a number of early-twentieth-century 'rambling' books which explored the suburbs of London through the eyes of forgotten authors such as S. From 2009 to 2011, along with Rogers, Papadimitriou hosted Ventures and Adventures in Topography, a radio show on Resonance FM. I then went straight into writing This Other London, and despite a couple of attempts to revive the show it just never happened. Here the storage vats are hard-drives of footage shot on a series of walks through Nick’s territory around West and Northwest London – Finchley, Stonebridge Park, Perivale, Feltham, Wormwood Scrubs. He's also got an incredible language at his disposal, remarkable ideas and a deep sense of lucid confusion.

He takes a sort of amalgam of old Ordnance Survey atlas, decommissioned guide book prose and personal recollection, and rewalks the landscape with no preconception. So when I mooted another walk and various exotic possibilities were floated it seemed inevitable that we’d end up back somewhere in the vicinity of Stonebridge Park and that Nick’s sacred ley line gurgling through a 48 inch pipe beneath the pavement would play a role. The Edgelands exhibition presents the work of six visual artists, who explore and document the wastelands and the neglected environs to be found on the margins of urban living.

I may not have bothered making the hour-long journey to Brent Cross to do a 3-hour walk pre-pandemic that would only cover a section of a 10-mile trail.

Although it has been an increasingly regular occurrence over the last four winters, Londoners of my generation still consider snow a novelty. In the end, watching it on the screen at the Flatpack Film Festival in the Video Strolls programme I realised that the film was an end in itself – The London Perambulator could have no sequel, if that existed it was Nick’s book Scarp perhaps.

Curling inside his looping journeys across the North Middlesex/South Hertfordshire escarpment, on which Papadimitriou de-romanticises ruins and tweaks the erogenous zones of gold courses, are other narratives that bend like tiny dimensions inside the bigger shell. Posted in Home | Tagged Affinity, archeaology, Charles Swain, Christopher Houlder, Edmund Gosse, Felix Baumgartner, Felix: Lighter V.

It delves deep into the landscape, and where current descriptions won't suffice creates a new map - you won't find "Scarp" identified anywhere I'm certain.

I enjoy eccentricity, so happily listened to Nick prattle on about Gilbert White, the Woodcraft Folk, and the mysteries of Middlesex. A 'deep topographical' dive into the escarpment just south of where I grew up and where I spent a lot of time as a child. He describes the activity of walking and exploring as a cathartic phenomenon worth nurturing, and feels that landscapes shape his mind as he progresses onward. But the motor that winds Papadimitriou's prose so tightly in `Scarp' is not contempt for suburbia but rather their jilting of the author who never was invited "to meet once again with those arched eyebrows and the togetherness over fondue and Mateus Rosé". Part autobiography, part fiction, part travelogue, and written after decades of hiking and discoveries in and around London, the book focused on the ridge of land to the north of the city's suburbs which Papadimitriou refers to as the North Middlesex/South Hertfordshire Tertiary Escarpment.

Self's droll psychogeographic adventures are more fun but they lack the sheer Joycean scope of Papadimitriou's ramblings: this is the hard stuff. We moved along a now overly familiar stretch of the North Circular – a scene I’ve watched back hundreds of times when editing The London Perambulator and also glimpsed when walking along the Paddington Arm of the Grand Union from Kensal Rise to Northolt last Easter. with Stewart Home, Javier Calvo, Brian Catling, Marc Vaulbert de Chantilly, Kathi Diamant, Driffield, Bill Drummond, Gareth Evans, Tibor Fischer, Allen Fisher, Antony Frewin, Ranald Graham, Ann Baer, Bill Griffiths, Lee Harwood, Richard Humphreys, Patrick Keiller, Marius Kociejowski, Andrew Kotting, Rachel Lichtenstein, Alexis Lykiard, Jonathan Meades, Michael Moorcock, J.