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Two Metres: a photo book documenting the pandemic in Camden

Kenwood Ladies Pond photographer Ruth Corney on her thought-provoking portrait of how Covid affected the local community

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Take a literary tour of these inspiring local blue plaques

Freelance reporter Jennifer Rigby plots a self-guided north London city hike with a purpose

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Why Little Green Street features in Joanna Briscoe’s The Seduction

The acclaimed NW5-based author of Sleep With Me on how the locations in her new novel don’t stray far from home

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Walden Books celebrates 40 years in Chalk Farm

Founder David Tobin on the story of a local literary institution

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RJ Bailey: meet the local couple who write thrillers together

We head to Dartmouth Park to meet Robert and Deb Ryan, the duo behind a riveting series of thrillers

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The London Literary Salon is back in Kentish Town

We like the idea of taking a course that’s a ‘spa for the mind’

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Giles Coren: ‘the moment my whole professional life changed’

Telly star and critic Giles Coren on why he’s compiled a guide to the “truly good restaurants” in the UK

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Ahmed on the 274: “it was always party time on his bus”

Elizabeth Wilson on the unique relationship Londoners have with the London bus

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My love letter to Gloucester Crescent

Author William Miller on what it was like growing up in the bohemian NW1 enclave

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‘I could tell you a thousand stories’: the man behind the Roundhouse

Marcus Davey features in London Lives a new book exploring the lives of 24 Londoners – one for each hour of the day

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