Out of the Ashes by Vicky Newham book review
Themes of immigration, gentrification and belonging are central to Vicky Newham’s second book featuring Detective Inspector Maya Rahman. ‘Out of
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The Blitz Bus by Glen Blackwell book review
We’ve enlisted the help of four local school children to unpack the fictional world of 1940’s wartime Britain as portrayed
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Book review: ‘The Nature Seed’ by Lucy Jones and Kenneth Greenway
With help from The Nature Seed, our book reviewer Helen Simms discovers the joy of looking, connecting, and bonding with
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Book review: ‘The Graves of Whitechapel’ by Claire Evans
Our book reviewer Tabitha Potts delves into The Graves of Whitechapel, a historical crime thriller that follows a barrister’s intricate
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Regeneration Songs: Sounds of Investment and Loss in East London, Book review
A scorching collection of essays, Regeneration Songs is crucial reading for anyone seeking to understand their changing city. Moving through
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East End Born and Bled by Jeff Jones – ‘a fascinating history of London boxing’
Our resident reviewer Tabitha Potts dives into this fantastic book charting the lives, day-jobs and backgrounds of East End fighters
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Victoria Park by Gemma Reeves book review – touching and tasting East London
This debut novel by Gemma Reeves is a dreamy montage of lives connected by delight in the small things while
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Turn a Blind Eye by Vicky Newham review – the body count mounts in Mile End
Our reviewer Tabitha Potts casts her eyes over Vicky Newham’s debut murder mystery Turn a Blind Eye, twisting and turning
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Secrets of the Homefront Girls by Kate Thompson – ‘beauty was their duty’
A love letter to East London, The Secrets of the Homefront Girls shows how everyone counts whatever their gender, class
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Camera as liberation: the founding of Four Corners and Camerawork
As Four Corners edges towards a full reopening, we glance back over its radical history, inextricable from that of the road it serves.
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Artist Marc Gooderham’s East End: ‘How can I make that street corner sing?’
We spoke to artist Marc Gooderham on the nostalgia of our favourite East End haunts, and what makes a place
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At least the weather’s good: a lockdown poem from Iftikhar Latif
Ifti Latif is a local poet, who wrote a poem inspired by lockdown last summer. As the winter months take hold and people look for some positivity in the current climate, he has chosen to share his work which he hopes will ‘be something nice to think about, especially as we enter January’.
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