Part memoir, part travelogue, part essay, the book riffs off McNeil’s adventures in far-flung places: Greenland, the Namib desert, Antarctica, African savannas, Costa Rican cloudforests, the ...

This is an urgent question for those running the country, but it also makes for a great plotline in the new thriller The Boy on the Train by Martin Goodman. The Hackney-based author has wormed his way ...

A Hackney teenager has received a British Citizen Youth Award (BCyA) medal for his writing and community involvement. At 17, Romeo Bremmer has yet to complete his A-levels but has already penned nine ...

Art may transcend borders, but those who make it are imbricated in places, cultures and political institutions. In the exhibition I Still Dream of Lost Vocabularies, Autograph Galley has brought ...

Inside a rudimentary pale-wood space, you can pick up bottles from Noble Rot (among hundreds of others) and beers with such hilarious names as Tim the Human Jellyfish, and even a zero-percenter: ...

As the fragments of her past merge with the textures of East London, Tribambuka’s work reminds us how memory, like collage, is never static. It tears, reassembles, and reshapes itself into something ...

His work draws from personal experience, but what drives him most is the act of sharing. That impulse took form in ‘verse’, a weekly writing group in Newington Green that he founded to build community ...

A Hackney couple who won a High Court challenge against the council over incorrect service charges could be facing higher costs as a result. Husband and wife John and Adenike Williams came before a ...

A new mural has been unveiled outside Clapton Park children’s centre, transforming a ‘neglected’ part of Lower Clapton from an ‘eyesore’ into a ‘celebration of Hackney’s nature and community spirit’.

A Hackney charity which provides free legal advice to residents has less than six months to solve a funding crisis which could force it to close after 32 years. The Hoxton Trust has offered help to ...

Loose community group Friends of Rowley Gardens says its estate should not be demolished by Berkeley Group and instead should be renovated. The Woodberry Down regeneration plan, which covers the ...

“I haven’t been able to have a proper wash because there’s no hot water. I’ve had to boil the kettle and fill the sink for a flannel wash, which means I can only wash myself once a day in the morning ...