Books
The Lime Green Mystery, Rosa Schling, book review: Dalston die-hards
The team at On The Record brought us history-walk app a hackney autobiography. Sister book The Lime-Green Mystery delves even deeper into radical HQ Centerprise’s colourful history
Read MoreClient Earth, James Thornton and Martin Goodman, book review – ‘a fight to protect our natural habitat’
The London Fields-based environmental law firm ClientEarth scored another victory last month in their battle for clean air. A new book outlines their philosophies
Read MoreDalston in the 80s by Andrew Holligan, book review: “bursting with culture and steeped in challenge”
This collection of black and white photography nonetheless depicts “life in its many colours” with a personal, diary-like feel
Read MoreThe Last Tenant, Sarah Kisielowski, book review: ‘an elegiac look at post-war Berlin’
Dalston-based first time author Kisielowski explores the recent history of Berlin through the lens of a family coming to terms with its own past
Read MoreOwn De Beauvoir! book review – ‘an oblique take on the construction of a neighbourhood’
This new ‘literary excavation’ by Jonathan Hoskins chronicles time in a fictionalised, yet still very real, De Beauvoir Town
Read More30-Second London – book review: ‘a quick reminder of our capital’s allure’
30-Second London is a swift and simple guide to the capital, filled with fascinating bites of architectural knowledge
Read MoreAdventures in the Lea Valley: stirring images of strange and surreal beauty in East London
Photography duo Polly Braden and David Campany have documented East London’s patchwork wilderness in ‘disconcerting times’
Read MoreThe Boss of Bethnal Green: Joseph Merceron, the Godfather of Regency London – review: biography of a local tyrant
Julian Woodford explores the life of Joseph Merceron, a corrupt magistrate and unscrupulous crook who gave the East End a bad reputation
Read MoreJuliet Jacques: ‘All women’s bodies are politicised’
Hackney author’s moving memoir feels like a classic ‘coming of age’ story, detailing her difficult journey from lonely teenager to role model for the trans community
Read MoreAtlas of Improbable Places – book review: ‘Informative and enthusiastic, scholarly and amusing’
Stoke Newington author Travis Elborough describes some of the strangest and most historically-obscure locations across the globe in his latest book
Read MoreThis is Grime – book review: A behind-the-scenes look at the musical revolution that defines a generation
A new book provides an intricate snapshot of a thriving subculture in British music, born out of the raves and pirate radio stations of East London
Read MoreLondon’s Olympic Legacy – book review: ‘spruced up field notes’
Volume provides an insider account of how the idealistic goals that motivated the early phases of Olympic legacy planning gradually eroded
Read MoreAn Unreliable Guide to London – book review
The new collection from Influx Press delivers exceptional stories and bizarre vignettes from beyond Zone 1
Read MorePost-war poignancy: a photographic elegy to 1960s East End
From misty views of the Thames at dawn to close up portraits of boxers, John Claridge’s East End is an intimate portrait of the city post-war
Read MoreLondon Fog – The Biography: how air pollution changed the nature of city life
From the Victorian era until the early 1960s, air pollution in the form of fog was a visible and pervading presence in the lives of Londoners
Read MoreLondon Life – book review: a wonderful photographic celebration of the city
In this photo memoir by Colin O’Brien it is not just London that is changing, but also the very nature of photography
Read MoreAdrift: A Secret Life of London’s Waterways, review – ‘serious and fascinating’
Poetic, informative and thoroughly researched, Adrift is author Helen Babbs’s account of living on the canals and waterways of London
Read MoreA Walk in the Park: The Life and Times of a People’s Institution – book review
Historian Travis Elborough charts the fascinating history of parks, those little pockets of nature most of us take for granted
Read MoreA Walk in the Park: The Life and Times of a People’s Institution – book review
Historian Travis Elborough charts the fascinating history of parks, those little pockets of nature most of us take for granted
Read MoreStoke Newington Literary Festival – preview
The annual book fest returns this weekend, with grime, gozleme and a certain former shadow chancellor
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