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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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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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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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Exeunt – The Stage Door Project, Lloyd McDonagh and Salvatore Scarpa, book review: ‘Oblique yet poignant angle on thespian life’

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 20 December 2021 at 10:31

Actors McDonagh and Scarpa talk to the Citizen about their intimate portrait of the pandemic’s impact on theatres

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‘I wanted to write about women making the city their own’: Author Gemma Seltzer on how the streets of East London influenced her new book

By Sarah Birch | Monday 18 October 2021 at 12:46

The writer spent the pandemic wandering the capital, and has used the experience to craft a ‘magnetic collection of short stories’

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Victoria Park, Gemma Reeves, book review: ‘Subtle picture of a place that could in some senses be anywhere’

By Sarah Birch | Monday 27 September 2021 at 13:38

The author’s debut novel uses 12 loosely-connected stories to build a portrait of the area’s complex history

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The Roles We Play, Sabba Khan, book review: ‘Laden with paradox and rich in nuance’

By Sarah Birch | Monday 16 August 2021 at 10:57

This genre-defying volume by an East London architect is a ‘meditation on the collective trauma of immigration’

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Common Ground, Naomi Ishiguro, book review: ‘A modern-day Howards End’

By Sarah Birch | Thursday 24 June 2021 at 09:28

The Stoke Newington novelist’s ‘highly readable’ debut is ‘destined to challenge not a few facile assumptions’

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One Hundred Years, Jenny Lewis, book review: ‘Life going by in a richly textured community’

By Sarah Birch | Thursday 3 June 2021 at 10:50

The photographer’s portraits of unique local characters cover a century of Hackney’s ‘passion and fortitude’

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Local gallery to release book of poems celebrating Hackney’s linguistic diversity

By Lizzie McAllister | Tuesday 25 May 2021 at 08:20

Swirl of Words/Swirl of Worlds features over 100 poems written in 94 different languages

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Through the Looking Glasses, Travis Elborough, book review: ‘A great way to put your own eyewear to use’

By Sarah Birch | Monday 26 April 2021 at 10:31
Author Travis Elborough

The local author turns his lens to the instruments that help him and an estimated four billion others navigate the world

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‘You couldn’t pay me to write or read a novel set in 2020’: Homecoming author Luan Goldie reflects on the pandemic

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 15 April 2021 at 18:41

The Stoke Newington resident spoke to the Citizen ahead of the paperback release of her widely praised novel

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Peterdown, David Annand, book review: ‘Captivating parable about how we understand place’

By Sarah Birch | Tuesday 13 April 2021 at 13:43

The local author’s 600-page debut novel elevates the abstruse business of council planning into an ‘engrossing’ prod at life’s big questions

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Diane Abbott to pen memoir charting her journey from ‘bespectacled little girl to MP’

By Lizzie McAllister | Thursday 11 March 2021 at 10:56

Publisher speaks of pride in sharing story of ‘titan of public and political life’

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Women from Hackney’s History, Hackney Society, book review: ‘Testimony to how high women can rise’

By Sarah Birch | Monday 22 February 2021 at 15:51

This celebration for the upcoming Women’s History Month delves into the achievements of 113 women with connections to the borough

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Invisible Ink: A Family Memoir, Martha Leigh, book review: ‘Part love story, part history, part meditation’

By Sarah Birch | Thursday 28 January 2021 at 18:49

The Hackney GP’s journey into the lives of her parents ‘probes with admirable delicacy some of the most pressing questions of our era’

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Homecoming, Luan Goldie, book review: ‘A subtle and engrossing story’

By Sarah Birch | Friday 15 January 2021 at 18:08

The Stoke Newington-based author explores, in ‘lyrical prose’, the ‘tangle of contemporary identity’

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Precious You, Helen Monks Takhar, book review: ‘A great lockdown read to gobble up and ponder’

By Sarah Birch | Thursday 14 January 2021 at 17:37

The Stoke Newington author’s first novel is a ‘gloriously dark parable of envy between generations’

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The Little History of the East End, Dee Gordon, book review: ‘Ambitious and very readable’

By Sarah Birch | Tuesday 10 November 2020 at 09:30

The local writer packs six millennia into fewer than 200 pages filled with ‘fascinating detail and lively prose’

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