Posts Tagged ‘Books’
‘My mum thought I’d be sent to jail’: Hackney author’s new memoir chronicles decades-long career in publishing – from controversial cult hits to phenomena like Harry Potter
Richard Charkin’s ‘My Back Pages’ is winning rave reviews for its detailed unpicking of the industry’s evolution over the past 50 years
Read MoreTales of the Suburbs, Justin David, book review: ‘Vivid storytelling full of sharp detail’
This novel ‘paints a picture of a journey away and back that many readers will recognise’
Read More‘It’s all down to the friendliness of the authors’: One-man Hackney publishing house built on a personal touch gets ready to celebrate five-year anniversary
Industry veteran Richard Charkin has found success with a light-footed approach to a notoriously competitive business
Read More‘How to bring to life a totally unknown cook?’
Our resident food historian dips into author Vicky Hayward’s ‘brilliant’ revival of an 18th-century friar and his recipes
Read More‘Often we just see the spine’: Hackney illustrator welcomes first customers to bookshop where the covers are turned up
After an ‘amazing’ crowdfunding effort, acclaimed artist David Ziggy Greene has opened Jam on Hackney Road
Read MoreAfter the Olympics, Tony Mak, book review: ‘Photographs that catch the fractured mood of this social cusp’
Tony Mak’s images show ‘how unharmonious profit-maximising urban design can be’
Read MoreChapter of Accidents: A Writer’s Memoir, Alexander Baron, book review: ‘Portrait of a man keen to be accepted but feeling himself apart’
Launched at Hackney Archives last month, these memoirs were said by the late novelist to ‘hold the key to his writing’
Read MoreA Child of the East End, Jean Fullerton, book review: ‘Highly entertaining tale of growing up in Stepney’
Fullerton’s memoir will ‘resonate with many’ who lived through the social change of the late 20th-century
Read More‘The trauma lasts for life’: Author and psychologist visits Hackney charity to launch novel about child trafficking
Angela Karanja’s thriller, Smuggled, is based on her experiences working with teenagers
Read MoreBacklash, Michael Shew, book review: ‘Fast-paced story with a well-crafted plot’
The Newington Green author impresses with ‘warts-and-all’ characters
Read MoreI Am Not Raymond Wallace, Sam Kenyon, book review: ‘Elegant story of how shared values can both eviscerate and nurture’
In ‘moving prose’, this debut novel explores the life of a gay man burdened by society’s expectations
Read MoreThe Getaway, Ross Armstrong, book review: ‘Summer sizzler with a twisty plot’
Everyone seems to be hiding something in the Hackney-based author’s whodunnit
Read MoreThe Council House, Jack Young, book review: ‘A celebration of the beauty of London estates’
Young’s work is a ‘salutary reminder of the qualitative variety and splendour of so much of our existing stock’
Read MoreAn English Summer, Chanel Irvine, book review: ‘Photos laced with nostalgic detail’
Irvine sees in British summers a ‘lyrical and faintly elegiac quality’
Read More‘We are gold and we should have been looked after’: Woman behind Grenfell photography book uses Hoxton exhibition to highlight lack of support
Feruza Afewerki was joined by survivors and people bereaved by the fire ahead of next week’s anniversary
Read More‘Lovely surprise’: Hackney’s long-serving libraries manager recognised in Queen’s honours
Sue Comitti awarded British Empire Medal – just months after celebrating 50 years of public service
Read MoreThese Streets, Luan Goldie, book review: ‘Unsparing reflection on the dark side of gentrification’
The Hackney author’s third novel is ‘one to put on your summer reading list’
Read MoreMabley Green Class of ’21, Benjamin Hughes, book review: ‘The art of rock-climbing on the plains of Homerton’
The photographer explains how a small community of climbers formed around a rock in a Hackney park
Read MoreHaggerston bookshop to defend its title as London’s best independent at British Book Awards 2022
Burley Fisher Books reaches final shortlist in the category it won last year
Read More‘Community effort’: Local boaters rescue works of late poet Val Warner from Clapton skip
Warner’s friends, who had expected the books and documents to be archived in the wake of her death, call the disposal a ‘disgrace’
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