Books
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
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
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
Walden Books celebrates 40 years in Chalk Farm
Founder David Tobin on the story of a local literary institution
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
The London Literary Salon is back in Kentish Town
We like the idea of taking a course that’s a ‘spa for the mind’
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
Ahmed on the 274: “it was always party time on his bus”
Elizabeth Wilson on the unique relationship Londoners have with the London bus
My love letter to Gloucester Crescent
Author William Miller on what it was like growing up in the bohemian NW1 enclave
‘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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