Books
Latitudes review – ‘Adventures in far-flung places’
Stoke Newington author Jean McNeil’s part memoir, part travelogue will linger long in the memory
Read MoreWe Cook Plants review – ‘A challenge you’re sure to relish’
Cooking charity founder Sarah Bentley offers up a persuasive guide to plant-based cuisine
Read MoreThe Boy on the Train review – ‘Deliciously twisty tale’
Local author Martin Goodman’s new novel sees ‘greed set against cunning’
Read MoreOn the Boardwalk, Martin Sherman, book review: ‘Deliciously droll’
The playwright’s ‘intensely personal’ memoir focuses on the years before he found fame
Read MoreAll the Young Queers, Nathan Evans, book review: ‘Deliciously creative’
The local author’s collection of short stories provides a ‘kaleidoscopic portrait of growing up as LGBTQ+ in Britain’
Read MoreBleeding Fabulous, Mark Ward, book review: ‘A heart-warming but cautionary tale’
This memoir of a haemophiliac caught up in the NHS’s infected blood scandal is ‘remarkable’
Read MoreMarket Day, Paul Trevor, book review: ‘Real-world theatre’
The photographer’s exploration of East London’s street markets is ‘impressive’
Read MorePurim in Hackney, Neil Martinson, book review: ‘Rare insight into humour of orthodox communities’
This 25-photo collection is ‘delightful’
Read MoreChild Migrant Voices in Modern Britain, Eithne Nightingale, book review: ‘Unique perspectives on how we live’
Nightingale’s sensitive collection of people’s stories is ‘remarkable for its sheer diversity’
Read MoreComing Unstuck, Joe Cullen, book review: ‘An object lesson in how to get out of a rut’
The first prose book by the man known as the Bard of Dalston is a ‘very personal foray into the undergrowth of Cool Britannia’
Read MoreOne Girl Began, Kate Murray-Browne, book review: ‘These women’s lives are all heroic in a small way’
The local author’s new novel explores the lives of three women at different junctures in Hackney’s history
Read MoreOne Last Song, Nathan Evans, book review: ‘A delicately oblique love story’
This debut novel by an accomplished poet and performer will have you ‘giggling while reaching for the tissues’
Read MoreHackney Scars, Eddie Plex, book review: ‘Local spirit of anarchic quirk’
Photographer and multimedia artist Plex offers up a ‘very personal interpretation’ of the borough
Read MoreThe Disappearance Boy, Neil Bartlett, book review: ‘Utterly compelling’
Bartlett’s tale of illusion and love ‘keeps the reader thoroughly engrossed’
Read More‘Makes me so angry’: Hackney author Dr Chris van Tulleken lifts lid on ultra-processed foods in bestselling book
‘Ultra-Processed People’ rejects weight-shaming and instead offers the reader power through knowledge
Read More‘My mum thought I’d be sent to jail’: Hackney author’s new memoir chronicles decades-long career in publishing – from controversial cult hits to phenomena like Harry Potter
Richard Charkin’s ‘My Back Pages’ is winning rave reviews for its detailed unpicking of the industry’s evolution over the past 50 years
Read MoreTales of the Suburbs, Justin David, book review: ‘Vivid storytelling full of sharp detail’
This novel ‘paints a picture of a journey away and back that many readers will recognise’
Read More‘Often we just see the spine’: Hackney illustrator welcomes first customers to bookshop where the covers are turned up
After an ‘amazing’ crowdfunding effort, acclaimed artist David Ziggy Greene has opened Jam on Hackney Road
Read MoreAfter the Olympics, Tony Mak, book review: ‘Photographs that catch the fractured mood of this social cusp’
Tony Mak’s images show ‘how unharmonious profit-maximising urban design can be’
Read MoreChapter of Accidents: A Writer’s Memoir, Alexander Baron, book review: ‘Portrait of a man keen to be accepted but feeling himself apart’
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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