Posts Tagged ‘Books’
Local author’s Alaskan salmon odyssey nets him prestigious literary prize
Adam Weymouth, who lives on a barge in the River Lea, has won the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award for his debut book
Read MoreRegeneration Songs: Sounds of Investment and Loss from East London, book review: ‘Unusual in its diversity’
‘Real pleasure’ to be found in this 500-page collection of essays and literature centred around urban renewal
Read MoreAtlas of the Unexpected, Travis Elborough, book review: ‘Bite-sized chunks on weird and wondrous places’
Floating villages, a chess-inspired city and a tiny Canadian island all feature in this ‘enchanting’ travel compendium
Read MoreI Never Lie review: psychological thriller bursting with local colour and fizz
Jody Sabral’s third novel is also a moving portrayal of the ravages wrought by alcoholism
Read MoreKings of the Yukon: An Alaskan River Journey – review
From his houseboat on the Lea, it takes Weymouth three days to reach McNeil Lake, the salmon spawning ground most distant from the Bering Sea where the Yukon eventually emerges
Read MorePages of Hackney lines up Charles Saumarez Smith and talks on climate change and Brexit in July events programme
The cultural historian and museum director pitches up at the Lower Clapton Road bookshop on 17 July, following talks earlier in the month featuring Client Earth and political journalist Ian Dunt
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 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 MoreMy Favourite London Devils, Iain Sinclair, book review: ‘mapping space through memories’
Hackney author’s new book is an attempt to piece together a personal anthology of the literature of the capital
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 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 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 MoreMarket gardens: the ‘ugly sisters’ of horticultural history
East London’s market garden scene was once a hotbed of commerce, where fruit, vegetables and exotic plants once flourished
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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 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
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