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On Saturday we put on our hats and gloves and did something a little different: we set up a one-day market stall outside the Broadway Bookshop in Hackney, to launch the paperback of Iain Sinclair’s Hackney, that Rose-Red Empire.
Iain was there to sign books and attract the attention of passers by – and with the hustle and bustle of the market at its Saturday best, there was no shortage of interest. Readers who have seen the hardback will remember that the jacket doubled up as an eye-catching map poster, and luckily we’d saved a few of those, so everyone buying the paperback went home with a special map of Hackney as a bonus.
Also on sale to complement the book were some gorgeous prints by artist and graphic designer Susanna Edwards. In collaboration with Iain, Susanna made these using photos which Iain has taken around Hackney over the last thirty years. She selected passages from the book and asked Iain to write them out by hand, then put the text and images together in a variety of combinations.
The poster you can see below shows the Four Aces club in Dalston.
Sunday Times Shortlist 8 March 2010
We’re very happy to announce that Joe Dunthorne’s short story ‘Critical Responses to My Last Relationship’ is one of just six to be shortlisted for the Sunday Times Short Story Award. Joe Dunthorne wowed readers and reviewers in 2008 with his debut novel, Submarine, and at just twenty-eight years old, he’s the youngest on the shortlist for this prize. And possibly the youngest on the Hamish Hamilton list, too.
As part of the Oxford literary festival, he’ll be appearing at an event on Wednesday 24th March, in conversation with Alexei Sayle and some of the other shortlisted authors, and then the winner of the overall prize will be announced on Friday 26th.
Congratulations too to Penguin author David Vann, whose story ‘It’s not Yours’ is also on the shortlist.
Street Life 4 March 2010
After meeting Jonathan Safran Foer in London on Saturday, little Ivo Stanley was delighted to encounter an orange version of the author on the street in Rome. (Where Jonathan has just arrived to launch Eating Animals.)
Magic at Wilton's 2 March 2010
Thanks to everyone who helped make our Five Dials Book Slam event on Friday a huge success.
For any of you who couldn’t be there, we’ve just been sent this beautiful cartoon by artist Badaude that just about sums up the evening. If you look closely enough, you should be able to make out the kazoomaphone. Not every Friday night can boast one of them . . .
For a larger version, that’s big enough for you to read the text, go to Badaude’s blog and click on the image to enlarge it.
Jonathan and George 26 February 2010
Click here for a wonderful video of Jonathan Safran Foer — in town today — and animal friend George, introducing Eating Animals:
And catch Jonathan on the Today programme with Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and on The Review Show, BBC2, with Martha Kearney, talking about the book.
The Wilton's Event 25 February 2010
Check out our beautiful limited-edition poster by rock n’ roll silk screen artist Nat Damm. It’s the Five Dials shack!
Wish We Were Here 24 February 2010
While it may still look calm, behind the scenes at Port Eliot all is a-bustle with activity, as the programme for this year’s festival gets finalised, tents booked, permits applied for, writers written to, brass band cajoled and surprises planned. Book now for 24-26 July at www.porteliotfestival.com
'This Dude's Book is Hip-Hop Album of the Year' 23 February 2010
Today we are loving this attention-grabbing headline for The Fader‘s review of David Shields’s Reality Hunger.
The Hamish Hamilton Pop-Up Shop 22 February 2010
For a long time we have wanted to launch a pop-up shop. So we are practising by launching a pop-up market stall at Hackney’s Broadway Market on Saturday, 6th March.
In association with Broadway Books, who are lending us their pavement, will be selling early paperback copies of Iain Sinclair’s Hackney: That Rose-Red Empire and giving away some beautiful prints of the original cover map, while stocks last.
We’ll be there, with Iain, from 12 until 2 (pre-dawn rising and Hamish Hamilton don’t always mix well). Do come along and say hello.
Thandie Newton on Eating Animals 19 February 2010
On our radar today:
‘Eating Animals, by Jonathan Safran Foer (Hamish Hamilton, £20). I believe that one of the biggest green steps that you can take is to become vegetarian. My children still eat (organic) meat about twice a week, but I’ve personally made the choice to give it up, not only due to animal welfare issues but also because of the contribution that factory farming of animals makes to global warming. Jonathan Safran Foer, who is also a novelist, was already eating a Kosher diet, so he was thinking about food and where it came from before he wrote this extraordinary exposé of the meat industry. The book is a total page-turner and even if you’re not vegetarian it’s a real incentive to eat meat more responsibly’
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