Books
Mabley 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 MoreExeunt – The Stage Door Project, Lloyd McDonagh and Salvatore Scarpa, book review: ‘Oblique yet poignant angle on thespian life’
Actors McDonagh and Scarpa talk to the Citizen about their intimate portrait of the pandemic’s impact on theatres
Read More‘I wanted to write about women making the city their own’: Author Gemma Seltzer on how the streets of East London influenced her new book
The writer spent the pandemic wandering the capital, and has used the experience to craft a ‘magnetic collection of short stories’
Read MoreVictoria Park, Gemma Reeves, book review: ‘Subtle picture of a place that could in some senses be anywhere’
The author’s debut novel uses 12 loosely-connected stories to build a portrait of the area’s complex history
Read MoreThe Roles We Play, Sabba Khan, book review: ‘Laden with paradox and rich in nuance’
This genre-defying volume by an East London architect is a ‘meditation on the collective trauma of immigration’
Read MoreCommon Ground, Naomi Ishiguro, book review: ‘A modern-day Howards End’
The Stoke Newington novelist’s ‘highly readable’ debut is ‘destined to challenge not a few facile assumptions’
Read MoreOne Hundred Years, Jenny Lewis, book review: ‘Life going by in a richly textured community’
The photographer’s portraits of unique local characters cover a century of Hackney’s ‘passion and fortitude’
Read MoreLocal gallery to release book of poems celebrating Hackney’s linguistic diversity
Swirl of Words/Swirl of Worlds features over 100 poems written in 94 different languages
Read MoreThrough the Looking Glasses, Travis Elborough, book review: ‘A great way to put your own eyewear to use’
The local author turns his lens to the instruments that help him and an estimated four billion others navigate the world
Read More‘You couldn’t pay me to write or read a novel set in 2020’: Homecoming author Luan Goldie reflects on the pandemic
The Stoke Newington resident spoke to the Citizen ahead of the paperback release of her widely praised novel
Read MorePeterdown, David Annand, book review: ‘Captivating parable about how we understand place’
The local author’s 600-page debut novel elevates the abstruse business of council planning into an ‘engrossing’ prod at life’s big questions
Read MoreDiane Abbott to pen memoir charting her journey from ‘bespectacled little girl to MP’
Publisher speaks of pride in sharing story of ‘titan of public and political life’
Read MoreWomen from Hackney’s History, Hackney Society, book review: ‘Testimony to how high women can rise’
This celebration for the upcoming Women’s History Month delves into the achievements of 113 women with connections to the borough
Read MoreInvisible Ink: A Family Memoir, Martha Leigh, book review: ‘Part love story, part history, part meditation’
The Hackney GP’s journey into the lives of her parents ‘probes with admirable delicacy some of the most pressing questions of our era’
Read MoreHomecoming, Luan Goldie, book review: ‘A subtle and engrossing story’
The Stoke Newington-based author explores, in ‘lyrical prose’, the ‘tangle of contemporary identity’
Read MorePrecious You, Helen Monks Takhar, book review: ‘A great lockdown read to gobble up and ponder’
The Stoke Newington author’s first novel is a ‘gloriously dark parable of envy between generations’
Read MoreThe Little History of the East End, Dee Gordon, book review: ‘Ambitious and very readable’
The local writer packs six millennia into fewer than 200 pages filled with ‘fascinating detail and lively prose’
Read MoreYoung Hackney author turns her mental health battles into ‘guide for others’
Yolanda Lear aiming to publish book next month, and has also teamed up with a local youth project to ‘share what she has learned’ through workshops
Read More100 Great Black Britons, Patrick Vernon and Angelina Osborne, book review: ‘Inspiring and highly entertaining’
This 400-page volume, based on a 16-year campaign to see eminent Black figures officially recognised, is a ‘valuable historical resource’
Read MoreIn Your Face, Paul Trevor, book review: ‘Up close and personal’
Naturalistic photographs alternating between Brick Lane and the City from the late ‘70s to the early ‘90s, this collection leaves the viewer ‘engrossed in detail’
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