Posts Tagged ‘Books’
Interview: ‘It’s much easier to build resentment on the care system than on your parents’
Jenny Molloy talks about finding forgiveness and acceptance after growing up in care and her mixed feelings about returning to East London
Read MoreHackney author hails ‘the power of sloth’
The tree-dwelling creatures are slowly taking over according to Lucy Cooke
Read MoreColumbia Road: A Strange Kind of Paradise – review
Linda Wilkinson’s book is a cornucopia of delights about history of famous East End street
Read MoreIain Sinclair to launch new book American Smoke at ‘F’ in Stoke Newington
Event comes after author’s reading of his ‘lost’ book-length poem Red Eye
Read MoreMarshland by Gareth Rees – preview
New book published by Influx Press is psychedelic exploration of London’s ‘wilderness’
Read MoreThe New English Landscape by Jason Orton and Ken Worpole – review
Sea-washed Essex landscapes the focus of essay by Stoke Newington-based author
Read MoreGeorgian London: Into the Streets by Lucy Inglis – review
Hackney is place of ‘violence and madness’ in history book published by Viking
Read More‘Odd’ diarists featured in Travis Elborough’s book A London Year
Stoke Newington author’s project provides portrait of life in the city from Tudor times to present day
Read MoreConnecting Nothing with Something – review
Briny collection featuring Salena Godden is latest title from Gary Budden and Kit Caless’ ‘site specific’ Influx Press
Read MoreNew East London publishers Hoxton Mini Press launch Kickstarter campaign
‘Spotter’s guide’ to the people of the East End will be among the first titles company prints
Read MoreComplete Poems of Howard Mingham published by imprint Caparison
Writer Ken Worpole pays tribute to gifted Hackney poet who died in mysterious circumstances in 1984
Read MoreAuthor Bernardine Evaristo on why her new novel ‘may stir up animosity’
Fictional tale Mr Loverman, set in Hackney, addresses ‘taboo’ subject of homosexuality in black community
Read MoreBriony Hatch – review
Adolescent fantasies are the focus of a new graphic novel by Ginny and Penelope Skinner
Read MoreSounds Like London: 100 Years of Black Music in the Capital – review
Lloyd Bradley’s exhaustive history runs the gamut from calypso to grime
Read MoreCafé cultured – literary project eyes Haggerston railway arches
A literary café partially owned by its customers would put intellectual rigour back into coffee drinking
Read MoreStranger in a Borrowed Land – review
Lotte Moos was a writer on Hackney’s radical literary scene in the 1970s
Read MoreAirtime for the classics – Shoreditch Radio launches book club
Classics Corner book club on Shoreditch Radio celebrates classic literature in an accessible way
Read MoreLondon Folk Tales – review
Thirty tales of London drawn from oral history, written sources and local reminiscences marvel in the mystery of the great city
Read MoreWhatever Happened to Harold Absalon? – review
Simon Okotie’s novel concerns a mysterious disappearance and an absurdly pedantic investigator
Read MoreLondon for Lovers – review
A new guidebook offers ideas for Valentine’s Day outings
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