‘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
Books
After 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’
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’
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
‘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
Backlash, Michael Shew, book review: ‘Fast-paced story with a well-crafted plot’
The Newington Green author impresses with ‘warts-and-all’ characters
I 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
The Getaway, Ross Armstrong, book review: ‘Summer sizzler with a twisty plot’
Everyone seems to be hiding something in the Hackney-based author’s whodunnit
The 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’
An English Summer, Chanel Irvine, book review: ‘Photos laced with nostalgic detail’
Irvine sees in British summers a ‘lyrical and faintly elegiac quality’
‘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
‘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
These 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’
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
Haggerston 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
‘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’