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Posts by Sarah Birch

Tales of the Suburbs, Justin David, book review: ‘Vivid storytelling full of sharp detail’

By Sarah Birch | Monday 27 March 2023 at 11:10

This novel ‘paints a picture of a journey away and back that many readers will recognise’

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‘Multi-layered and masterful’: Leaving Vietnam, Park Theatre – review

By Sarah Birch | Sunday 26 March 2023 at 08:17
Leaving Vietnam at Park Theatre

An enthralling one-man show, written and performed by Richard Vergette

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‘It was a revelation in a selfish, personal way’: Artist Jock McFadyen on how his own retrospective gave him a ‘hankering to mix and match’

By Sarah Birch | Wednesday 22 March 2023 at 13:17

The Royal Academician is showing his latest exhibition at his studio gallery in London Fields

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Rare Hackney, Two More Years studio, exhibition review: ‘You won’t regret a visit’

By Sarah Birch | Thursday 20 October 2022 at 12:57

Neil Martinson’s photographs of the borough, on display to raise money for the local food bank, show ‘a community on the move’

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Cézanne: The EY Exhibition, Tate Modern, review: ‘A painter of nature’

By Sarah Birch | Tuesday 11 October 2022 at 13:45

More than 80 paintings make up the first major display of the artist’s work in London since the turn of the century

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After the Olympics, Tony Mak, book review: ‘Photographs that catch the fractured mood of this social cusp’

By Sarah Birch | Monday 10 October 2022 at 09:14

Tony Mak’s images show ‘how unharmonious profit-maximising urban design can be’

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Chapter of Accidents: A Writer’s Memoir, Alexander Baron, book review: ‘Portrait of a man keen to be accepted but feeling himself apart’

By Sarah Birch | Monday 3 October 2022 at 10:29

Launched at Hackney Archives last month, these memoirs were said by the late novelist to ‘hold the key to his writing’

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A Child of the East End, Jean Fullerton, book review: ‘Highly entertaining tale of growing up in Stepney’

By Sarah Birch | Thursday 29 September 2022 at 10:04

Fullerton’s memoir will ‘resonate with many’ who lived through the social change of the late 20th-century

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Backlash, Michael Shew, book review: ‘Fast-paced story with a well-crafted plot’

By Sarah Birch | Monday 15 August 2022 at 18:23

The Newington Green author impresses with ‘warts-and-all’ characters

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I Am Not Raymond Wallace, Sam Kenyon, book review: ‘Elegant story of how shared values can both eviscerate and nurture’

By Sarah Birch | Monday 25 July 2022 at 11:05

In ‘moving prose’, this debut novel explores the life of a gay man burdened by society’s expectations

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The Getaway, Ross Armstrong, book review: ‘Summer sizzler with a twisty plot’

By Sarah Birch | Monday 11 July 2022 at 12:45

Everyone seems to be hiding something in the Hackney-based author’s whodunnit

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The Council House, Jack Young, book review: ‘A celebration of the beauty of London estates’

By Sarah Birch | Monday 27 June 2022 at 13:31

Young’s work is a ‘salutary reminder of the qualitative variety and splendour of so much of our existing stock’

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An English Summer, Chanel Irvine, book review: ‘Photos laced with nostalgic detail’

By Sarah Birch | Friday 24 June 2022 at 17:31

Irvine sees in British summers a ‘lyrical and faintly elegiac quality’

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These Streets, Luan Goldie, book review: ‘Unsparing reflection on the dark side of gentrification’

By Sarah Birch | Monday 30 May 2022 at 13:58

The Hackney author’s third novel is ‘one to put on your summer reading list’

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Mariam, The Old Church, stage review: ‘Stand-out performances carry dialogue-heavy script’

By Sarah Birch | Thursday 28 April 2022 at 15:30

This adaptation of Elizabeth Cary’s 1613 play picks up in the second half

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Mabley Green Class of ’21, Benjamin Hughes, book review: ‘The art of rock-climbing on the plains of Homerton’

By Sarah Birch | Friday 1 April 2022 at 14:56

The photographer explains how a small community of climbers formed around a rock in a Hackney park

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Jock McFadyen: Tourist without a Guidebook, Royal Academy: ‘Even if you think you know them, these paintings invite you to reflect anew’

By Sarah Birch | Thursday 17 February 2022 at 09:42

The Academy has collected 20 of the Scottish artist’s London artworks to celebrate his 70th birthday

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Unmasked, Perishable Rush, BSMT Space, exhibition review: ‘Smiles and scars in evocative solo show’

By Sarah Birch | Tuesday 15 February 2022 at 12:20

The Dutch street artist has taken his work off walls across Europe for his first UK gallery outing in Dalston

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Dexter McLean: Portraits from Tower Avenue, Jamaica, Autograph, review: ‘Take the time to savour these images’

By Sarah Birch | Wednesday 19 January 2022 at 10:47

The photographer’s award-winning series shows the vitality of ‘resilience and resourcefulness’

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‘Colourful promise with nothing to back it up’: Artist Simon the Last takes aim at high-tech with light show in an empty shop

By Sarah Birch | Monday 17 January 2022 at 10:54

Window display in Hoxton featuring over 3,600 LEDs ‘explores the ways in which our material existences have been warped’

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