Hackney journalist provides social commentary and insight into the precarious world of London cycle couriers in Messengers
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
There’s more to this social movement than loving your body and feeling good, says author and fat activist Charlotte Cooper
Hackney-born author Stephen Thompson talks about his latest novel, set in the immediate aftermath of the 7/7 bombings
Samuel Pepys, Herman Melville and Christopher Columbus among the authors of a fascinating compendium of travel writing, co-compiled by Travis Elborough
Photographer Nicholas Sack captures a stark world of alienation and testosterone in Lost in the City
Valerie Brandes is the ‘Hackney girl’ publishing unheard voices ‘as cosmopolitan as our city’
Two authors spent a weekend in a Hackney square and wrote down everything they saw there in homage to an experiment by French writer Georges Perec
A pamphlet first published by Centerprise explores working class political life in Victorian Hackney
Famous names including David Bailey and Benjamin Zephaniah talk about how dyslexia has enabled them to be creative and successful
Bee Rowlatt embarked on a full-blown love affair by tracing Mary Wollstonecraft’s journey across Scandinavia
New short story and illustration publication gets to grips with grotesque human forms for its maiden issue
