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Xiaolu Guo’s journey from the Far East to East End

By Hackney Citizen | Saturday 20 September 2014 at 10:00

Acclaimed Chinese writer and filmmaker who plies her trade from Hackney talks about her recent novel I am China, a stirring tale of love, exile and political struggle

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Book review: Boxer Handsome – 'somewhere between soap opera and classical tragedy'

By East End Review | Tuesday 16 September 2014 at 10:00

A Clapton boxer fights to escape the ‘goldfish bowl’ of his existence in Anna Whitwham’s debut novel Boxer Handsome

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Book review: Boxer Handsome – ‘somewhere between soap opera and classical tragedy’

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 16 September 2014 at 10:00

A Clapton boxer fights to escape the ‘goldfish bowl’ of his existence in Anna Whitwham’s debut novel Boxer Handsome

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Book review: Thirst by Kerry Hudson

By East End Review | Sunday 14 September 2014 at 12:44

Acute observations of city life and the author’s poised prose style accompany tale of love, loneliness and trafficking split between Russia and Dalston

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The Planner- review

By East End Review | Thursday 14 August 2014 at 08:00

A town planner is seduced into a life of decadence in Tom Campbell’s satire on modern urban life

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Wave Caps: Former hack turns poet

By East End Review | Wednesday 13 August 2014 at 14:44

Poet and journalist Miguel Cullen talks about his debut collection Wave Caps

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Swimming with Diana Dors – book review

By East End Review | Tuesday 5 August 2014 at 13:46

Swimming with Diana Dors, a collection of short stories penned by Hackney-based author Jeremy Worman, is an elegiac look into family life and the significance of place

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Futures – book review: things are never 'stupid A to B'

By East End Review | Monday 14 July 2014 at 11:45

Two City analysts who decide to speculate with cocaine become embroiled in a criminal underworld in novel Futures by Stoke Newington author John Barker

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Futures – book review: things are never ‘stupid A to B’

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 14 July 2014 at 11:45

Two City analysts who decide to speculate with cocaine become embroiled in a criminal underworld in novel Futures by Stoke Newington author John Barker

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East London Swimmers – for the love of London Fields Lido

By East End Review | Friday 13 June 2014 at 16:24

Lido regulars pose for a collection of thoughts and images that celebrates the life affirming properties of swimming in the open air

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Swimming London: The 50 Best Pools, Lidos, Lakes and Rivers from around the Capital – book review

By East End Review | Thursday 15 May 2014 at 14:20

From its rivers to its lidos and heated pools, London boasts its fair share of places to go swimming

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Hard times in Hackney as economic slump takes toll

By East End Review | Friday 9 May 2014 at 12:10

Guardian journalist Tom Clark explains his views on the global economic crisis set out in his new book Hard Times: The Divisive Toll of the Economic Slump and how they apply to Hackney

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Hackney author Tom Clark’s new book shows how global economic crisis has created a less equal society

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 8 May 2014 at 10:43

‘Divided society’ in Guardian leader writer’s home borough provides ample case studies for Hard Times tome

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Masters of the Airwaves: The Rise and Rise of Underground Radio – review

By East End Review | Friday 11 April 2014 at 15:21

Masters of the Airwaves tells the story of the birth of black music radio in the UK through interviews with the people who were there

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Interview: Hackney Child author tells of experiences growing up in care

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 11 April 2014 at 11:20

‘It’s much easier to build resentment on the care system than it is on your parents,’ says Jenny Molloy

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Interview: 'It's much easier to build resentment on the care system than on your parents'

By East End Review | Thursday 10 April 2014 at 15:27

Jenny Molloy talks about finding forgiveness and acceptance after growing up in care and her mixed feelings about returning to East London

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Interview: ‘It’s much easier to build resentment on the care system than on your parents’

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 10 April 2014 at 15:27

Jenny Molloy talks about finding forgiveness and acceptance after growing up in care and her mixed feelings about returning to East London

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Hackney Child – review

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 10 March 2014 at 17:34

Memoir of Hope Daniels is story of an upbringing characterised by neglect and hardship

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Metier: Small Businesses in London – review

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 10 March 2014 at 17:34

A celebration of London’s unorthodox small businesses and shops still managing to keep afloat in an increasingly homogenous high street

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Hackney author hails ‘the power of sloth’

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 10 March 2014 at 17:34

The tree-dwelling creatures are slowly taking over according to Lucy Cooke

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