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Idea Store library in Tower Hamlets

Book borrowing on the decline across North East London libraries

Book borrowing is on the decline across North East London, as library funding cuts and closures have swept the capital.

Russian political activist and Pussyriot member delivers account of penal colony in Shoreditch book reading

A Russian political activist and member of anti-Putinist punk rock group Pussyriot delivered a book reading at the Freedom Press

Image of the launch of the Imagination Library in Hackney

Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library launches in Hackney on World Book Day

Hackney has become a new official site for Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library, the largest early-childhood book gifting programme in the

An image of bookshop owner Vicki Shenkin Kerr and Shop Manager Kristin Griffin

Tower Hamlets bookshop earns national award nomination only eight months after opening

A Tower Hamlets bookshop is up for a prestigious award – despite being open for only eight months. Bàrd Books,

Haggerston station’s new book area encourages community reading

A De Beauvoir Town author has taken it upon himself to champion the new community book area at Haggerston station.

An image of a poster

Refugee conversations from Calais posters made into book

‘You were talking about where you were from and where you wanted to go’ reads the poster fraying away from

ZADIE SMITH

Southbank literature season to feature Elliot Page, Zadie Smith and Caitlin Moran

The Southbank Centre has announced its exciting 2023 literature and spoken word season line-up. The series of events and discussions

Jaki Britto and Jon Fortgang take out coronation goodie bags with their usual deliveries.

Hackney Community Library Services offer coronation goodie bags

Hackney’s Community Library Service have brought royal fever to their service users ahead of the regal extravaganza this Saturday by

Phlox Books interior

North east London bookshops battle for British Book Award

Two bookshops in North East London have secured spots on the British Book Awards’ shortlist for Independent Bookshop of The Year (2023).

How has the cost-of-living crisis affected London’s independent bookshops?

London’s independent bookshop community is one of the largest in Europe, with more than a thousand shops on the official

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