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Newham Bookshop events at The Wanstead Tap, Spring 2024
  • Wednesday 20 March at 7.30 pm

    Ladies Who London LIVE!
    with Leo Hollis: Inheritance

  • 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




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Newham Bookshop, Pete Fallan, March 2021.


Thursday 7 November at 7.30 pm
at The Wanstead Tap


A Modest Living
A Modest Living
is published in hardback
by Spitalfields Life Books at £20.
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Tickets £6 online
from Newham Bookshop

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“One of London’s largest selections of craft beers and a range of local, small batch spirits. We pride ourselves on buying limited-release gins and vodkas as well as a range of mixers to suit every taste.”

Suresh Singh
A Modest Living

Memoirs Of A Cockney Sikh

Suresh Singh will be in conversation with Stefan Dickers.
He will be showing photographs and talking about his life.

In this first London Sikh biography, Suresh Singh tells the candid and sometimes surprising story of his father Joginder Singh who came to Spitalfields in 1949.

Joginder sacrificed a life in the Punjab to work in Britain and send money home, yet he found himself in his element living among the mishmash of people who inhabited the streets around Brick Lane.

Born and bred in London, his son Suresh became the first Punjabi punk, playing drums for Spizzenergi and touring with Siouxsie & the Banshees.

In the book, chapters of biography are alternated with Sikh recipes by Jagir Kaur.

Stefan Dickers is the special collections and archives manager at Bishopsgate Institute.

Suresh Singh and Jagir Kaur
Portrait of Suresh Singh and his wife Jagir by Patricia Niven

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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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