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Newham Bookshop events at The Wanstead Tap, Spring/Summer 2024
  • Thursday 18 April at 7.30 pm

    Sarah Wise
    The Undesirables

  • Thursday 25 April at 7.30 pm

    Andrew Whitehead
    A Devilish Kind Of Courage

  • Thursday 16 May at 7.30 pm

    Viv Groskop
    One Ukrainian Summer

  • Wednesday 29 May at 7.30 pm

    Iain Sinclair
    Pariah Genius

  • Wednesday 5 June at 7.30 pm

    Laura Laker
    Potholes and Pavements




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Newham Bookshop, Pete Fallan, March 2021.


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Sunday 29 May from 11.30 am to 7 pm at Valentines Park, Ilford IG1 4SD

Redbridge Green Fair 2016

Meet authors Yvvette Edwards at 12.45 pm and Pete May later

We’ll be at Redbridge Green Fair again this year, with a good selection of books of interest to everyone.

Yvvette Edwards The Mother There's a Hippo in My Cistern

At 12.45 pm, Redbridge author Yvvette Edwards will join us at Redbridge Green Fair to meet her fans and sign copies of her new novel, The Mother. She’ll talk about how she came to write the book, read an extract from it and do a Q&A with the audience.

Later, local author Pete May will sign copies of his books including There’s a Hippo in My Cistern: One Man’s Misadventures on the Eco-frontline. Pete May Redbridge Green Fair 2016

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Family lessons for
Writing and Reading Newham
available here

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Interested in learning more about Newham Bookshop and some of the people connected with it? We have four lessons for classroom or family use developed from On the Record’s oral history project centered around Newham Bookshop, Writing and Reading Newham. Click here for full details.


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Newham Bookshop is LoveReading’s
Bookshop of the Month

We are proud that Newham Bookshop is LoveReading’s Bookshop of the Month. The article features a Q&A with Vivian Archer, which you can read here.


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