Caledonian Road

Jun 22, 2024 | unionleader.com | Clare McHugh |Caledonian Road |ANDREW O’HAGAN

Caledonian Road, By Andrew O’Hagan, W.W. Norton. 624 pp. $32.50The weather this spring in London has been intermittently bright and warm, but the public mood remains steadily overcast. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s announcement last month that a general election will be held on July 4 did little to lift Britons out of their funk. Those on the right wonder: What has it all been for — these 14 years of Tory government?

Jun 18, 2024 | entertainment-mag.com | Caledonian Road |ANDREW O’HAGAN

References to real events and places pepper the text: from the missed penalties in the Euro 2020 soccer championships to the posh haunts of a certain type of Londoner. (“Everything on the menu had to do either with beetroot or parsnips.”) This bingo-card of name-dropping doesn’t overshadow O’Hagan’s true focus: the city’s very real corruption; the fact that everything — from political influence to human life — is up for sale. Flynn is a fittingly flawed guide to this underworld.

Jun 18, 2024 | nytimes.com | Caledonian Road |Andrew O'Hagan

CALEDONIAN ROAD, by Andrew O'HaganLondon's Caledonian Road runs through the borough of Islington, past Pentonville Prison, postwar public housing estates and rows and rows of highly coveted Georgian terraces. Prices can reach multiple millions for houses in leafy squares, while poorer residents can spend years on waiting lists for council flats. If you want to write about inequality in London - or in the United Kingdom - "the Cally," to locals, is a good place to start.

Apr 25, 2024 | panmacmillan.com | Andrew O'Hagan |Caledonian Road |Linton Kwesi Johnson |Jeanette Winterson

AmazonBlackwell'sBookshop.orgFoylesWaterstonesWH SmithWorderyImprint: PicadorSynopsisMay Day is the long-awaited new poetry collection from one of our best-loved poets and former Makar of Scotland, Jackie Kay. These poems cast an eye over several decades of political activism, from the international solidarity of the Glasgow of Kay’s childhood, accompanying her parents’ Socialist campaigns, through the feminist, LGBT+ and anti-racist movements of the 80s and 90s, up to...