Books - Hackney Citizen (Page 5)

The Hackney author’s third novel is ‘one to put on your summer reading list’

Author: Sarah Birch

The photographer explains how a small community of climbers formed around a rock in a Hackney park

Author: Sarah Birch

Burley Fisher Books reaches final shortlist in the category it won last year

Author: Lizzie McAllister

Warner’s friends, who had expected the books and documents to be archived in the wake of her death, call the disposal a ‘disgrace’

Author: Marion Willingham

Actors McDonagh and Scarpa talk to the Citizen about their intimate portrait of the pandemic’s impact on theatres

Author: Hackney Citizen

Book written by Francisco de la Mora, who creates artwork for the Citizen, explores the life of Diego Rivera and his marriage to Frida Kahlo

Author: Lizzie McAllister

The writer spent the pandemic wandering the capital, and has used the experience to craft a ‘magnetic collection of short stories’

Author: Sarah Birch

The author’s debut novel uses 12 loosely-connected stories to build a portrait of the area’s complex history

Author: Sarah Birch

The author and theatre director’s ‘poignant’ fifth novel explores the gay experience through history

Author: Sarah Birch

Town Hall launches consultation with the aim of putting libraries ‘at the heart of community life’

Author: Lizzie McAllister

This genre-defying volume by an East London architect is a ‘meditation on the collective trauma of immigration’

Author: Sarah Birch

The Stoke Newington novelist’s ‘highly readable’ debut is ‘destined to challenge not a few facile assumptions’

Author: Sarah Birch