Books
On Message – writer and ex-bicycle courier pens memoir on wheels
Hackney journalist provides social commentary and insight into the precarious world of London cycle couriers in Messengers
Read MoreSkinning Out to Sea book review – Naval gazing
As a teenager, Mick Hugo swapped the dry land of East London for a life in the merchant navy. Now more than 50 years later, the Hoxton man has written a fascinating account of his seafaring days
Read MoreCould 'fat activism' hold the solution to the obesity crisis?
There’s more to this social movement than loving your body and feeling good, says author and fat activist Charlotte Cooper
Read MoreCould ‘fat activism’ hold the solution to the obesity crisis?
There’s more to this social movement than loving your body and feeling good, says author and fat activist Charlotte Cooper
Read MoreHow London's terror attacks inspired novel No More Heroes
Hackney-born author Stephen Thompson talks about his latest novel, set in the immediate aftermath of the 7/7 bombings
Read MoreHow London’s terror attacks inspired novel No More Heroes
Hackney-born author Stephen Thompson talks about his latest novel, set in the immediate aftermath of the 7/7 bombings
Read MoreA Traveller's Year: 365 Days of Travel Writing in Diaries, Journals and Letters – review
Samuel Pepys, Herman Melville and Christopher Columbus among the authors of a fascinating compendium of travel writing, co-compiled by Travis Elborough
Read MoreA Traveller’s Year: 365 Days of Travel Writing in Diaries, Journals and Letters – review
Samuel Pepys, Herman Melville and Christopher Columbus among the authors of a fascinating compendium of travel writing, co-compiled by Travis Elborough
Read MoreLost in the City: photographs of London's office workers
Photographer Nicholas Sack captures a stark world of alienation and testosterone in Lost in the City
Read MoreLost in the City: photographs of London’s office workers
Photographer Nicholas Sack captures a stark world of alienation and testosterone in Lost in the City
Read More'In a white-dominated industry black issues become a shorthand'
Valerie Brandes is the ‘Hackney girl’ publishing unheard voices ‘as cosmopolitan as our city’
Read More‘In a white-dominated industry black issues become a shorthand’
Valerie Brandes is the ‘Hackney girl’ publishing unheard voices ‘as cosmopolitan as our city’
Read MoreHow two authors attempted to exhaust a place in London
Two authors spent a weekend in a Hackney square and wrote down everything they saw there in homage to an experiment by French writer Georges Perec
Read MoreHackney Propaganda: a look at 19th century working men's clubs
A pamphlet first published by Centerprise explores working class political life in Victorian Hackney
Read MoreHackney Propaganda: a look at 19th century working men’s clubs
A pamphlet first published by Centerprise explores working class political life in Victorian Hackney
Read MoreHigh achievers with dyslexia share their stories in new book
Famous names including David Bailey and Benjamin Zephaniah talk about how dyslexia has enabled them to be creative and successful
Read MoreThe author following in the footsteps of Mary Wollstonecraft
Bee Rowlatt embarked on a full-blown love affair by tracing Mary Wollstonecraft’s journey across Scandinavia
Read MoreBody issues: new lit magazine Funhouse gets corporeal
New short story and illustration publication gets to grips with grotesque human forms for its maiden issue
Read MoreOpposites attract in Butterfly Fish
Split between contemporary London and 19th-century West Africa, Butterfly Fish is a debut novel with an epic scope
Read MoreThe real mothers of invention
A Hackney historian challenges conventional thinking about the ‘eureka’ moment
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