News & Views – May 2019

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…

Categories: Books, Events, News

Island Magic: A Local Artist’s Adventure

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…

Categories: Book Review

Library Talk with author Katie Ruth Davies

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…

Categories: Books

Local author’s latest novel set in Hampstead

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,…

Categories: Book Review

News & Views – May 2018

Primrose Hill Summer Fair Save the date! The 41st Primrose Hill Summer Fair, put on by the Primrose Hill Community Association, will be held on Saturday 9 June in Chalcot Square. Come and join us for some summer fun. Top…

Categories: Feature, News

The Outer Circle

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…

Categories: Book Review

Desert Island Books: Mary-Kay Wilmers

Imagine that Primrose Hill is surrounded by water. If you were marooned on that island, what would be the eight books you would want with you? Who better to invite to choose for the first in this series than Mary-Kay…

Categories: Desert Island Books

Primrose Hill is Reading: November

With beach reading now a memory and the nights beginning to draw in, one of the pleasures of Autumn has to be the huge range of new books published in the run up to Christmas.  Greatly anticipated are novels by…

Categories: Reading