Posts Tagged ‘book review’
The Chameleon, Sam Fisher, book review: pacy time-traveller shows off bookshop founder’s genre knowledge
Fittingly for the co-founder of Burley Fisher Books in Haggerston, his début novel is actually narrated by a book – albeit an 800-year-old one called John…
Read MoreTakeaway, Tommy Hazard, book review: funny and disturbing semi-fiction from Hackney’s NHS frontline
This hard-hitting yet pocket-sized volume, set all around Hackney, finds humour and brutality in the work of a relatably flawed ambulance driver
Read MoreThe Lower Clapton Tales, Carolyn Clark, book review: plus ça change…
Think you know ‘Clop Ton’? We wager you’ll glean something new from this “charming book of memories, photographs and historical artefacts”
Read MoreEast End Vernacular, book review: ‘striking vistas, rather than despair’
Harvested from the 1930s to the present day, Spitalfields Life’s gorgeous collection of East End paintings is more knees-up than misery-fest
Read MoreA Hoxton Childhood and The Years After by A.S. Jasper, book review: it’s a hard Hox life
A.S. Jasper was better known as Stan in early twentieth-century Hoxton, where he struggled through a hungry upbringing. Our review looks at his two volumes of “first-person insight into a time when the welfare state was but a twinkle in the labour movement’s eye…”
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 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 MoreA Process Revealed, book review: Stadt and deliver
Timber-framed behemoth Stadthaus on Murray Grove is the subject of A Process Revealed, which demystifies the apartment block’s architectural approach
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 MoreAn Unreliable Guide to London – book review
The new collection from Influx Press delivers exceptional stories and bizarre vignettes from beyond Zone 1
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 MoreBook review: Thirst by Kerry Hudson
Acute observations of city life and the author’s poised prose style accompany tale of love, loneliness and trafficking split between Russia and Dalston
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
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