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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]