Books
Juliet Jacques: ‘Being transexual has politicised my creative work’
The Hackney-based author of the acclaimed memoir Trans is convinced that emotions can play a crucial role in affecting social and political change
Read MoreWill Volley, Hackney graphic novelist and creator of The Opportunity – interview
Comics artist Will Volley may have the perfect pitch for his new graphic novel – selling door-to-door
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Read MoreWill Volley, Hackney graphic novelist and creator of The Opportunity – interview
Comics artist Will Volley may have the perfect pitch for his new graphic novel – selling door-to-door
Read MoreIn a Land of Paper Gods author on ‘naughty children who disappeared from history’
Rebecca Mackenzie talks about writing her debut novel, synchronicity and growing up in an evangelical environment
Read MoreOn 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
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