By the Mole on The Hill Photograph by Sarah Louise Ramsay Kitty: What’s that building down there with people going in and out? The Mole: That’s the Community Library. Kitty: There must be lots of books there. Where do they…
Young journalists from Haverstock School talk to children’s author Jeanne Willis. Jeanne Willis has been an author of children’s books for over 40 years: dogs, cats, rabbits, penguins, insects, reptiles and invented characters like Bog Babies have all featured in…
A book by Michael Dowd In the December issue of On The Hill, we published this postcard of a house on Gloucester Avenue in our ‘Postcards from Primrose Hill’ series, courtesy of @old_primrosehill_postcards. The postcard was recognised by local resident…
Local resident Roger Hyams is a local writer, film maker and script editor who has recently published a novel, The Lightman System. The book is set in 1974. Teenage siblings Ellie and Colin are on holiday when they fall for…
It is not every day that an opportunity arises to sail to a far-flung island in the middle of the Gulf of Finland. But that is exactly where one Primrose Hill local found herself on Midsummer’s Day. Local artist Chloe…
Primrose Hill writer Amy McLean has released her latest novel, setting the story in the heart of Hampstead Heath. We Are Lucifer employs the thriller genre to explore protagonist Amber Quigley’s struggles with depression and jealousy. “Like many of my other novels,…
Primrose Hill has long been a favourite destination for film-makers, but it also crops up in books, notably The Folks That Live on the Hill by Kingsley Amis and Primrose Hill by Helen Falconer. Now former sportswriter Ian Ridley has…