Books
Interview: ‘It’s much easier to build resentment on the care system than on your parents’
Jenny Molloy talks about finding forgiveness and acceptance after growing up in care and her mixed feelings about returning to East London
Read MoreHackney Child – review
Memoir of Hope Daniels is story of an upbringing characterised by neglect and hardship
Read MoreMetier: Small Businesses in London – review
A celebration of London’s unorthodox small businesses and shops still managing to keep afloat in an increasingly homogenous high street
Read MoreHackney author hails ‘the power of sloth’
The tree-dwelling creatures are slowly taking over according to Lucy Cooke
Read MoreHackney author looks at the gardens of the British working class
Are we a nation of gardeners? asks Margaret Willes in her new book
Read MoreAmerican Smoke: Journeys to the End of the Light – review
Iain Sinclair leaves Hackney for the US on a Beat poetry pilgrimage in his latest book
Read MoreFifty people of East London who are true to type
Well-observed guide to East Londoners is packed with satire and observational humour
Read MoreColumbia Road: A Strange Kind of Paradise – review
Linda Wilkinson’s book is a cornucopia of delights about history of famous East End street
Read MoreI’ve lived in East London for 86 1/2 Years – interview with author Martin Usborne
Hoxton Mini Press releases the condensed life story of 86-year-old East Londoner Joseph Markovitch told in text and images
Read MoreOld East Enders by Jane Cox – review
Book traces history of area from Neolithic times until dawn of Georgian era
Read MoreMarshland: Dreams and Nightmares on the Edge of London – review
Writer Gareth Rees teams up with illustrator Ada Jusic to produce strikingly original new book
Read MoreThis Other London – review
Author John Rogers tours through some overlooked reaches of London
Read MoreLondon Fortean Society’s Scott Wood launches London Urban Legends book
Urban myths are the subject of a new book by London Fortean Society head Scott Wood
Read MoreIain Sinclair to discuss American Smoke at Cafe Oto
Author will appear at ‘The Banned and The Damned’ event alongside Revd William Taylor
Read MoreMarshman Gareth Rees to lead tour of Hackney’s ‘wilderness’ this weekend
Walk around green space will uncover ‘druggy Victorians, dead bears and phantom factories’
Read MoreIain Sinclair to launch new book American Smoke at ‘F’ in Stoke Newington
Event comes after author’s reading of his ‘lost’ book-length poem Red Eye
Read MoreMarshland by Gareth Rees – preview
New book published by Influx Press is psychedelic exploration of London’s ‘wilderness’
Read MoreThe New English Landscape by Jason Orton and Ken Worpole – review
Sea-washed Essex landscapes the focus of essay by Stoke Newington-based author
Read MoreGeorgian London: Into the Streets by Lucy Inglis – review
Hackney is place of ‘violence and madness’ in history book published by Viking
Read More‘Odd’ diarists featured in Travis Elborough’s book A London Year
Stoke Newington author’s project provides portrait of life in the city from Tudor times to present day
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