Books
Top 5: Tips on erotic writing
A two-day conference in Camden next month offers budding authors how to do a Fifty Shades
‘It was a garden, undeniably, and I wanted it’
In which novelist Charlotte Mendelson describes her desperate search for a tiny pocket of land in NW5
Is 2017 the year of the Sports Geek?
Tufnell Park-based writer and journalist Rob Minto thinks non-sports fans should be armed with a few statistics, just to cut through the noise
Review: NW by Zadie Smith
Last night’s 90 minute BBC2 adaptation has been acclaimed from all quarters. Here’s why you should read the novel
Laura Barnett: ‘Even the place names in north London seem exotic’
Author Laura Barnett on scoring a smash hit with her debut novel, partly set in Highgate and the surrounds
The rise and rise of Highgate Mums
When Dan Hall overheard snippets of conversations in N6 cafes, he didn’t expect there’d be a book and a TV series in it
Gillian Tindall has a new book out
The Fields Beneath author and Kentish Town’s queen of non-fiction on her new work The Tunnel Through Time
5 Mins With: Gary Mclaren, Owl Bookshop
Meet a familiar face who’s been behind the counter at Kentish Town Road’s bookshop for 30 years
ArchWay With Words: interviews with five authors
Suzi Quatro, Jake Arnott, Louise Doughty, Jonathan Harvey and Salena Godden spill the beans on what we can expect at this week’s N19 litfest
MUST DO: ArchWay With Words 2016
With over 40 events in just over a week, this annual literary festival is well worth a punt
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