memoir - Hackney Citizen

Latitudes review - 'Adventures in far-flung places'

Stoke Newington author Jean McNeil's part memoir, part travelogue will linger long in the memory

Author: Sarah Birch

Latitudes review - 'Adventures in far-flung places'

‘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

Author: Marion Weaver

‘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

Chapter 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’

Author: Sarah Birch

Chapter of Accidents: A Writer’s Memoir, Alexander Baron, book review: ‘Portrait of a man keen to be accepted but feeling himself apart’

A 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

Author: Sarah Birch

A Child of the East End, Jean Fullerton, book review: ‘Highly entertaining tale of growing up in Stepney’

Skinning Out to Sea book review – Naval gazing

As a teenager, Mick Hugo swapped the dry land of East London for a life in the merchant navy. Now more than 50 years later, the Hoxton man has written a fascinating account of his seafaring days

Author: Hackney Citizen