Books
Briony Hatch – review
Adolescent fantasies are the focus of a new graphic novel by Ginny and Penelope Skinner
Read MoreSounds Like London: 100 Years of Black Music in the Capital – review
Lloyd Bradley’s exhaustive history runs the gamut from calypso to grime
Read MoreReading Room Only: Memoir of a Radical Bibliophile – review
Squatter turned academic Phil Cohen reflects on a ‘disjointed’ life filled with books
Read MoreDoing things differently! Do Book Company’s alternative ‘how to’ guides
Series provides practical advice on skills including growing, improvisation and telling stories
Read MoreUndercover: The True Story of Britain’s Secret Police – review
Book unmasks secret officers’ ‘love of playing God’ writes former Murder One book buyer Trisha Telep
Read MoreTony Hogan Bought Me An Ice Cream Float Before He Stole My Ma’ – review
You can almost smell the chip grease as you turn the pages of Hackney author Kerry Hudson’s gritty novel
Read MoreHow Buildings Kill – review
Confounding and enlightening, disquieting publication takes its cue from a quintessentially urban art
Read MoreThe Marshes by Samuel Wright and Josh Lustig – review
Collaboration is a reminder that even in our high tech world some things are beyond our control
Read MoreCriminal London: A Sightseer’s Guide to the Capital of Crime – review
Fiendish history of our streets laid bare in criminally good volume
Read MoreSwear Down – review
Russ Litten’s crime novel fixes its gaze on a fictional Hackney shooting
Read MoreStoke Newington Literary Festival – preview
Caitlin Moran, Martin Rowson, Danny Baker and Irvine Welsh on bill for bookish event
Read MoreLondon’s Lost Power Stations and Gasworks – review
Relics of city’s industrial past played vital role in its renown but are often overlooked, Ben Pedroche’s new book shows
Read MoreThe Sea Inside: Philip Hoare talks whales and Loch Ness monsters ahead of Hackney book launch
Author to appear at Stoke Newington Literary Festival and Last Tuesday Society
Read MoreShooting in N16 – photographer Andrew Dumbleton’s lens-eye view of Stoke Newington
Stokey caught on camera in snapper’s sellout volume
Read MoreYou Can’t Evict an Idea – review
Author Tim Gee casts an eye back at Occupy and asks what we can learn from it
Read MoreMortality Rate – review
A musical style meets a misanthropic view of humanity in Andrew Elliott’s latest collection of poems
Read MoreCafé cultured – literary project eyes Haggerston railway arches
A literary café partially owned by its customers would put intellectual rigour back into coffee drinking
Read MoreTaking on the Empire – review
Taking on the Empire tells the story of how an old bingo hall was transformed into what is now the Hackney Empire
Read MoreStranger in a Borrowed Land – review
Lotte Moos was a writer on Hackney’s radical literary scene in the 1970s
Read MoreLondon Folk Tales – review
Thirty tales of London drawn from oral history, written sources and local reminiscences marvel in the mystery of the great city
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