For some years I used to look forward to the regular arrival of a small A5 magazine on my doorstep – through short stories, poetry, photography, illustrations and more, Smoke: A London Peculiar used to tell strange and tall tales about this wonderful city of ours. Although editor Matt Haynes no longer produces the magazine, […]
Soho 4AM – The Debut Novel By Nuala Casey – A Review
Last week Nuala Casey’s debut novel, Soho 4AM, landed on my desk – the latest publication from Quercus books. Soho 4AM features four characters whose lives intertwine in the seedy backstreets and buzzing offices of London’s most notorious district, although it does follow the characters around as they journey between the familiar sights both north […]
Lost In London – Adventures In The City’s Wild Outdoors – Book Review
A weighty hard-back book has just thumped down on my desk – a new collection about London written and edited by Lucy Scott and Tina Smith called Lost In London – Adventures In The City’s Wild Outdoors, which brings together articles from the Lost In London magazine. In its 180-odd pages you’ll find a rather […]
Peggy Lee Loves London – Book Review
What must be London’s most unusual guidebook has just landed on my desk – Peggy Lee Loves London. Written by Katrina Leskanich (of Katrina & The Waves) and Sher Harper it’s a whistle-stop tour of the two authors’ favourite London spots, aided and abetted by the Peggy Lee of the title, who happens to be […]
Clare Fisher’s ‘The City In My Head’ Series – A Fictional Tour Of London
While the rise of the Kindle and online book sales through Amazon and the like continue to threaten the future of many bookshops, there are other casualties in this war between online and offline. I’m thinking of the small-circulation magazines of short fiction – Smoke: A London Peculiar stopped production in 2010, and then started […]
Stations: A Collection Of Short Stories Inspired By The Overground – Book Review
Given that Boris celebrated the completion of the London’s Overground’s encircling of the capital earlier this week, it was entirely appropriate that a new book, ‘Stations‘, should land on my desk for a review. ‘Stations’, edited by Cherry Potts, is a collection of short stories whose common theme is the London Overground’s destinations – twenty […]
Tales From The Two Puddings by Eddie Johnson – Book Review
It’s probably fair to say that along with the London 2012 Olympic Games came an attempt to rewrite Stratford’s history, with one Minister stating that the Olympic Park had replaced ‘an urban wasteland’. I hate to call a member of the Government a liar, but the displaced businesses and uprooted communities that used to occupy […]
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