Fiction – Hackney Citizen

Takeaway, Tommy Hazard, book review: funny and disturbing semi-fiction from Hackney’s NHS frontline

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 28 February 2018 at 13:34

Takeaway is written from the perspective of a cynical Hackney ambulance driver, Tommy Hazard. Photograph: Hackney Council

This hard-hitting yet pocket-sized volume, set all around Hackney, finds humour and brutality in the work of a relatably flawed ambulance driver

In a Land of Paper Gods author on ‘naughty children who disappeared from history’

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 21 April 2016 at 13:29

Rebecca Mackenzie talks about writing her debut novel, synchronicity and growing up in an evangelical environment

Man Booker prize 2011 longlist includes quartet of debut novels

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 26 July 2011 at 21:45

Yvvette Edwards

Stephen Kelman’s Pigeon English leads charge by first-time authors as previous winners fail to make 13-strong longlist