Are you a Kindle person, or do you prefer the deep smell of a new (or even better, old) book? We’re more in the latter camp, but whatever your preference, it’s still an industry that needs everyone’s support.
Hence our books special this month, spearheaded by the ArchWay With Words festival, about to start its fourth annual run across venues in and around N19. It’s ten days – and 40 events – of fiction, science, history, memoir, spoken word, poetry, performance, comedy and film.
Inside the issue we hear from playwright Jonathan Harvey, authors Jake Arnott and Louise Doughty, poet Salena Godden and legendary musician Suzi Quatro about what they’re doing at the multi-venue event.
We also meet mega-selling debut author Laura Barnett, local icon Gillian Tindall, and discover the story behind the neighbourhood’s favourite bookshop, Owl.
Not a bookworm? There are the usual food reviews, a run-down of what to this month, and we meet the couple behind Power Dressing, a new 80s and 90s vintage store in Camden Market.
MAIN KENTISHTOWNER STOCKISTS
Permanent Distribution Units
Kentish Town West Overground
Tufnell Park Underground
Gospel Oak Overground
Outside Phoenicia supermarket, Kentish Town Road
Other stockists
Southampton Arms, Fields Beneath, The Grafton, Kentish Town Sports Centre, Tapping The Admiral, Camden Town Brewery, Camden’s Daughter, Zabludowicz Collection, Roundhouse, Bowery Bagel, Q Grill, Lantana, Camden Market Hall upstairs, Spread Eagle, Coffee Jar, Cote, Leyas Coffee, The Colonel Fawcett, Casa Tua, Owl Bookshop, Flaxon Ptootch, Scratchline Tattoo, The Lion & Unicorn, The Oxford, Kentish Town Library, Harrys Fine Food, The Vine, The Junction Tavern,Ruby Violet, Bear + Wolf, The Pineapple, The Abbey Tavern, Arancini Factory Cafe, Zing Zing, The Bull & Last, Truffles Deli, Owl Bookshop, Flaxon Ptootch, The Star, Lord Palmerston, Tufnell Park Tavern, Future & Found, Rose & Crown, The Lord Stanley, Oskar Pink, Dirty Burger, The College Practice, Queen’s Crescent Library, Fierce Grace Yoga – Queen’s Crescent, Marios Cafe, The Stag, Beetroot Deli, Black Truffle, The Spoke, St John’s