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Nov 21, 2024 | 
camdennewjournal.co.uk | Maggie Gruner
Mark BowlesON a dark December morning in Soho, a man views the streets through his grandfather’s welding goggles, which lend “an old-world, blood-orange tint”. This perspective suits the man, Henry Nash, who is at odds with many aspects of contemporary life. He is the prickly narrator in Mark Bowles’s compelling debut novel, All My Precious Madness. Written as a monologue, it is a voyage inside Henry’s head. An academic and author, he writes in a small Italian café in Berwick Street.
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Sep 19, 2024 | 
islingtontribune.co.uk | Maggie Gruner |Susanna Rustin
Susanna Rustin [Ludo Hunter-Tilney]METAL gags and tubes were used to force-feed suffragettes on hunger strike in Holloway Prison, and many were left with lasting injuries. Jailed campaigners for votes for women began going on hunger strike in 1909 in protest against their treatment as criminals rather than political prisoners.
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Sep 19, 2024 | 
camdennewjournal.co.uk | Maggie Gruner
Susanna Rustin [Ludo Hunter-Tilney]METAL gags and tubes were used to force-feed suffragettes on hunger strike in Holloway Prison, and many were left with lasting injuries. Jailed campaigners for votes for women began going on hunger strike in 1909 in protest against their treatment as criminals rather than political prisoners.
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May 30, 2024 | 
camdennewjournal.co.uk | Maggie Gruner
A Cat with her Kittens by Louis Wain, 1907 [Bonhams, London, UK/Bridgeman Images]LIKE a furry hot water bottle, black and white cat Peter snuggled against a Belsize Park woman with breast cancer. She was Emily Wain, whose husband Louis became famous for his drawings of human-like, dapper cats living modern lives – a far meow from the weaselly-faced, ratty-tailed skulkers of earlier times.
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May 30, 2024 | 
islingtontribune.co.uk | Maggie Gruner |Kathryn Hughes
A Cat with her Kittens by Louis Wain, 1907 [Bonhams, London, UK/Bridgeman Images]LIKE a furry hot water bottle, black and white cat Peter snuggled against a Belsize Park woman with breast cancer. She was Emily Wain, whose husband Louis became famous for his drawings of human-like, dapper cats living modern lives – a far meow from the weaselly-faced, ratty-tailed skulkers of earlier times.
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Apr 25, 2024 | 
camdennewjournal.co.uk | Maggie Gruner
Barbara ComynsFILCHED from an American officer on the top deck of a bus in wartime, the small case surfaced at a house in Hampstead, where its contents spurred creative genius. The case contained a brand-new Olivetti portable typewriter, which its thief, a builder working on the house, sold to his employer – “rough diamond” Arthur Price. Price gave the typewriter to his lover, Barbara, who lived with him at the house in Harben Road, and it helped her pursue her unique writing talent.
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Nov 9, 2023 | 
camdennewjournal.co.uk | Maggie Gruner
Ella PhillipsSURROUNDED by calypso music and the aroma of ginger and spice, a small child searches for his grandmother. Little Zee and his granny are the stars of a new book for young children, My Grandma’s Magic Recipes: Winter Warmth. Its author Ella Phillips, who grew up in Archway and Holloway, wraps an “eat your veg” message in a toasty tale vibrantly illustrated by Camilla Sucre.
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Oct 26, 2023 | 
camdennewjournal.co.uk | Maggie Gruner
Christine Fox, author of Fine DiningSTAGE-STRUCK from early childhood, Christine Fox had her teenage ambition to go to drama school quashed by her father. But now, in her 70s, Christine, from Belsize Park, is about to fulfil a thespian dream. Not only has she written two short plays soon to be performed at the Canal Café Theatre, Little Venice, but she will also take a lead role in one of them.
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Oct 12, 2023 | 
bbc.co.uk | Nora Fakim |James Kelly |Maggie Gruner |Dan Carrier
A British-Palestinian couple trapped in Gaza amid Israel's siege have had little help from the UK government, their son has said. Naila and Talal El-Deeb, from London, were visiting relatives in Gaza when the violence erupted on Saturday with Hamas's attack on Israel. Mo El-Deeb said his parents' attempt to flee through Egypt was halted when an Israeli jet struck near the border. The UK government has been contacted for comment.
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Oct 12, 2023 | 
camdennewjournal.co.uk | Maggie Gruner
The Calais Jungle in 2015 [Nicolas Pinault]THE little girl had been sleeping under canvas in freezing conditions. She begged Nicola Garrard, who had delivered food to refugees in the Calais camp known as The Jungle, to take her to England. Nicola, a former Islington teacher, describes desperately wanting to help the girl and fearing for her safety. But she didn’t agree to take her.
