BOWIELAND: WALKING IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF DAVID (PB)

Following open heart surgery, Peter Carpenter told to walk if he wanted to stay alive. When his hero died in 2016, he knew what to do. Leaving behind well-known shrines to Bowie, he journeyed through South London edgelands to obscurer haunts. Carpenter's quest, a series of happy accidents and chance meetings, takes him to Bickley as well as Berlin and Brixton, to Eel Pie Island as well as Heddon Street and Beckenham. On the way, he begins to understand Bowie not as an outlier, but as part of a tradition.