Wed 29 July: Alain de Botton – The sorrows and pleasures of work
Banker? Artist? Banker turned artist? Find out why work is what keeps you out of (more) trouble.
Books
Thurs 16 July: ‘All the east’: Shakespeare in the East End
Join Hackney author and Guardian writer Andrew Dickson for his Rough Guide to Shakespeare
Indian Summer: Glen Peters and The Shaitan of Calcutta
Last night brought a taste of India to Clapton Road as Glen Peters launched his novel at Pages of Hackney bookshop on Tuesday 16 June
Thurs 18 June: The Whole Day Through, with Patrick Gale
The critically-acclaimed and award-winning author of Notes from an Exhibition comes to sign books and talk about his latest novel.
Tues 16 June: Mrs D’Silva’s Detective Instincts and the Shaitan of Calcutta
With a feast of home-cooked samosas and traditional Indian sweets to spice up the evening, Glen Peters will talk about how he came to write a detective novel and his experiences of growing up in Calcutta in the 1960s.
Mon 15 – Mon 22 June: Independent Booksellers Week
To celebrate Independent Booksellers Week, The Book Box is hosting a number of author events for both adults and children at its shop, 53 Chatsworth Road, Clapton, London, E5 0LH
Iain Sinclair: At large in a ‘fictional’ Hackney
The celebrated ‘psychogeographer’ talks to the Guardian newspaper about the London borough that has been his home and muse for 40 years, and how the Olympic development is changing it
At home with Iain Sinclair
The author and psychogeographer talks to Peter Jones about Hackney and his forthcoming book
