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

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

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

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

After a juddering start, Kate Colquhoun’s account of the first murder on the British railway really gets going

A late look at the Stoke Newington stand-up Stewart Lee’s autobiography

Following our recent competition, here’s the winning poem and a selection of the best entries

This novel by former Hackney Downs School student, Alexander Baron, was first published in 1951

First published in the 1950s, these two novels have been unavailable for half a century but are now back in print

Ned Beauman’s debut novel was shortlisted for the prestigious Guardian First Book Award. We talk to the man himself