What makes a good man bad? Nature versus nurture? Local author Vicky Unwin was sorting through the documents of her father, the Holocaust survivor Tomas Ungar. What she uncovered was an uncomfortable discovery which she has written about in her…
You may be reading books to distract yourself from the outside world, but if you require your literature to reflect the current climate, here is a selection of ‘infection’ books. Plague of Athens by Thucydides The ‘Plague of Athens’ hit…
By Isabelle Dupuy. One of the magical things about London is the number of lives one can have in this city without moving neighbourhoods. My first life here was on Gloucester Avenue, fresh from New York City, with an ex-pat…
Harriet Kelsall Wins at the Business Book Awards Congratulations to Harriet Kelsall, whose book The Creative Guide to Starting a Business has won at the Business Book Awards 2019. The judges commended Harriet’s ‘outstanding’ book, recognising its value in helping…
Aruna Khanzada had been living on Bridge Approach for a year and making daily trips to the top of Primrose Hill with her children when she started writing and illustrating Harrison Braves the Hill. It is a book for young…
Celebrated writer reads passages at the Primrose Hill Community Centre Alan Bennett looked very much at home as he took a chair and announced that he planned to read passages from his famous diaries. The diaries, extracts of which are…
David Waller published The Reputation Game after moving to Primrose Hill with his family last year. Currently a partner in a global consulting firm, he is a former journalist with the Financial Times and author of several books on business…
By Florence Robinson (aged 13). When Rob first asked if I would do an interview at Primrose Hill Library with Katie Ruth Davies, the up and coming author of Angel, I quickly accepted, reassured that it was several months in…