EXCLUSIVE – Author, Shaun Attwood will be at Stoke Newington Literary Festival The man from Cheshire US authorities say was bigger than mafia honcho and hitman, Sammy ‘the Bull’ Gravano I’ve been meaning to catch up with Shaun Attwood for a while.  Logistics,  commitments and a last minute miscommunication meant we had to make do [...]

Tickets  for the first ever Stoke Newington Literary Festival are now available. The Pleasance Theatre is handling ticket sales.  Please phone the box office on 020 7609 1800 for credit card sales. Tickets are also available from Stoke Newington Bookshop, at 159 Stoke Newington High Street.  Cash sales only. The festival will be as diverse [...]

You wonder why it’s taken so long to happen. An area like Stoke Newington  long associated with dissidents, free thinkers, writers, artists, bohemians and all in-between. Wonder no more, Stoke Newington now has it’s very own Literary Festival or at least it will this summer, thanks to Liz Vater of Stoke Newington, Jo Adams of  Stoke Newington Books and [...]

Adam Foulds is a poet turned novelist and a young British author who has been my favourite discovery since opening the shop, so I’m very excited that he’s coming to the shop. “The Quickening Maze” is based on real events in Epping Forest on the edge of London around 1840 and centres on the first [...]

Private View for Amy Green’s “Drawings: A Show of Small Gifts.” This event has been featured in Time Out’s First Thursday Top 5 listing and is kindly sponsored by Kopparberg – Cider of Sweden – so free cider all night! The poet Stephane Mallarme saw that the making and effect of poetry is deeply similar [...]

Congratulations to one of Hackneys independent Book shops that has been short listed for The Independent Bookseller of the Year – South-East & London region. Pages, only opened less than two years ago, is a much appreciated addition to our list of other independent book shops scattered across the borough. Located on Lower Clapton Road, [...]