Sounds Like London: 100 Years of Black Music in the Capital – review
Lloyd Bradley’s exhaustive history runs the gamut from calypso to grime
Books
Reading Room Only: Memoir of a Radical Bibliophile – review
Squatter turned academic Phil Cohen reflects on a ‘disjointed’ life filled with books
Doing things differently! Do Book Company’s alternative ‘how to’ guides
Series provides practical advice on skills including growing, improvisation and telling stories
Undercover: The True Story of Britain’s Secret Police – review
Book unmasks secret officers’ ‘love of playing God’ writes former Murder One book buyer Trisha Telep
Tony Hogan Bought Me An Ice Cream Float Before He Stole My Ma’ – review
You can almost smell the chip grease as you turn the pages of Hackney author Kerry Hudson’s gritty novel
How Buildings Kill – review
Confounding and enlightening, disquieting publication takes its cue from a quintessentially urban art
The Marshes by Samuel Wright and Josh Lustig – review
Collaboration is a reminder that even in our high tech world some things are beyond our control
Criminal London: A Sightseer’s Guide to the Capital of Crime – review
Fiendish history of our streets laid bare in criminally good volume
Stoke Newington Literary Festival – preview
Caitlin Moran, Martin Rowson, Danny Baker and Irvine Welsh on bill for bookish event
London’s Lost Power Stations and Gasworks – review
Relics of city’s industrial past played vital role in its renown but are often overlooked, Ben Pedroche’s new book shows
The Sea Inside: Philip Hoare talks whales and Loch Ness monsters ahead of Hackney book launch
Author to appear at Stoke Newington Literary Festival and Last Tuesday Society
Shooting in N16 – photographer Andrew Dumbleton’s lens-eye view of Stoke Newington
Stokey caught on camera in snapper’s sellout volume
You Can’t Evict an Idea – review
Author Tim Gee casts an eye back at Occupy and asks what we can learn from it
Mortality Rate – review
A musical style meets a misanthropic view of humanity in Andrew Elliott’s latest collection of poems
Café cultured – literary project eyes Haggerston railway arches
A literary café partially owned by its customers would put intellectual rigour back into coffee drinking