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Books

Interview: Yvvette Edwards, Man Booker Prize longlister

Hackney-raised author’s début novel A Cupboard Full of Coats has met with great acclaim



Interview: Joe Dunthorne on his new book, Wild Abandon

The Hackney author discusses his second novel, which readers have greeted with acclaim



Hackney novelist Yvvette Edwards makes Man Booker Prize longlist

A Cupboard Full of Coats impresses the judges of a prestigious national book award



Radio review: Hackney Podcast

A cacophony of local voices made this haunting fiction of London after The Flood come alive



Man Booker prize 2011 longlist includes quartet of debut novels

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



Iain Sinclair’s struggles with the city of London

Iain Sinclair has spent decades documenting the capital and its edgelands. Now he has launched a furious attack on the Olympic development project.



Interview: Iain Sinclair on his new book, Ghost Milk

The Hackney-based author fears the impact the 2012 Olympics will have on the borough



Interview: Owen Jones on The Demonization of The Working Class

Owen Jones will be speaking at Pages of Hackney bookshop on Wednesday 20 July 2011



Fragmented by Jeremy Worman – review

Charming, off-beat literary snapshots of Hackney and other parts of north London cleverly serve to make the familiar unfamiliar



A Cupboard Full of Coats by Yvvette Edwards – review

A gripping first novel from a local author which lays bare a Hackney woman’s struggle to escape a legacy of loss and pain which threatens to overwhelm her and destroy her future