Past Events
Tuesday 20th July
Mark Hannam and Jo Wolff spoke about Southern Africa: Past and Future
Wednesday 14th July
Nicholas Jubber talked about his book, Poets, Polymaths and Pleasure-Daughters: Drinking Arak off an Ayatollah's Beard
Thursday 8th July
Private View for Luisa Alpalhao's exhibition, 30 Days of Storytelling
Tuesday 6th July
I R Charles read from her brilliant local book Under a Hackney Sky
Wednesday 30th June
Mike Gerber spoke about Jazz Jews
Sunday 27 June 2010
Cinammon Press hosted their 2nd runnaway success at Pages with a poetry afternoon including readings from local poet Claudia Jessop and international poets, Arlene Ang and Mark Fitzgerald
9 June 2010
Mike Marqusee talked with the Guardian's Daphna Baram about his book If I Am Not for Myself
5 June 2010
Private View - Emerging Images by Valerie and Roger Dean
22 April 2010
Adam Foulds - the Booker shortlisted author of The Quickening Maze came to Pages
17 April 2010
Out of Step: A spoken word benefit for No Sweat
1 April - 31 May 2010
Amy Green Drawings - A Show of Small Gifts
25 March 2010
The Poetry of Healing: Medicine, Psychotherapy and the Arts
A Dialogue with Iona Heath and Paul Gordon
5 - 31 March 2010
New Paintings by Alex Arnell - Private View
Pages Ruins February - A series of events on ruins
25 February 2010
Patrick Wright talked about 'A Journey Through Ruins: the last days of London'
17 February 2010
Owen Hatherley talked about the ruins of urban regeneration
10 February 2010
'Ruins Tourism' - Christopher Woodward talked with Ken Worpole
4 February 2010
Nick Haffner's photographic exhbition opening for 'Among the Ruins: Woolworths, Leytonstone, April 2009'
27 January 2010
One Million Tiny Plays About Britain, performed by author Craig Taylor and Co.
16 January 2010
Out of Step - an evening of Spoken Word
10 December 2009
Winter Warmer with klezmer music, mulled wine and mince pies at the shop.
8 December 2009
Iain Sinclair, Bonnie Greer and Yang Lian discussed London at identity at another packed out Round Chapel event.
2 December 2009
Ken Worpole, Patrick Vernon and Ken Worpole talked about the Hackney Society's latest book, 40 Buildings - Modern, Restored, Forgotten, Ignored
22 October 2009
Jules Lily talked about Kerala and the Pongala Festival, illustrated by her exhibition.
14 October 2009
Ken Worpole came and talked about his book Modern Hospice Design, along with Michael Kerin, Chief Executive of St Joseph's Hospice.
4 October 2009
Janine Booth came to talk about her book Guilty and Proud Of It about Poplar's rebel councillors, sponsored by the TUC.
24th September 2009
Local writer, Jeremy Worman, and a whole crew of other contributers from the far corners of the kingdom, came and read to a packed crowd from their short story collection The Storm at Galesburg
17th September 2009
John Felstiner came over from the US to ask the improbable, but hopeful question, Can Poetry Save the Earth?
Wednesday 29th July 2009
Alain de Botton wowed a 220 strong audiene at the Round Chapel with his stories of The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
24th July 2009
Rosemary Furber launched her excellent debut novel, The Most Intimate Place, accompanied by a stunning performance by acclaimed jazz quartet, Round Trip
16th July 2009
Andrew Dickson talked about Shakespeare and his six years in Hackney to celebrate the 2nd edition of his Rough Guide to Shakespeare
18th June 2009
Patrick Gale talked about his latest novel, The Whole Day Through and signed books in the garden.
16th June 2009
Glen Peters brought Indian food and talked about his debut novel Mrs D'Silva's Detective Instincts and the Shaitan of Calcutta.
10th June 2009
Tim Harford talked about his new book, The Logic of Life
Pages Presents: a series of Hackney events open to the public
Pages of Hackney invites you to a series of readings, discussions, debates, screenings, art exhibitions, performances and parties. These events are well-attended so do rsvp to David at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it to ensure your place.
Ice Space - Doffy Weir
Private View - Thursday 2nd September 6-9pm Show runs 2-30 Sept 2010
For 30 years Doffy Weir has stalked the canals and derelict industrial sites of East London with her camera, transforming the unlikely subjects into beautiful, surreal and tranquil otherworlds.
I get totally absorbed and excited by floating detritus which most people find ugly. I abstract forms and shapes, playing with light and skewing dimensions to create enigmatic and strange landscapes.
Click on image to see exhibition catalogue of Doffy's art designed by Eanna Freeney. www.eannafreeney.com 
Wednesday 8th September at 7pm Dan Cruickshank talks about The Secret History of Georgian London Tickets - £3 Georgian London evokes images of elegant buildings and fine art, but it was also a city where prostitution was rife, houses of ill repute widespread, and many tens of thousands of people dependent in some way or other on the wages of sin. This book shows how the sex industry came to affect almost every aspect of life and culture in the capital. Cruickshank draws on contemporary memoirs, court cases and the evidence of art and architecture in this strongly imagined account, which is also illustrated throughout with contemporary engravings and paintings.
Thursday 23rd September at 7pm The New Feminism: An audience with Kat Banyard and Catherine Redfern Tickets - £3 The authors of two seminal new feminist books come to talk at Pages. Reclaiming the F Word is a groundbreaking book examining how and why the new feminist movement affects the lives of women in today's society, from cosmetic surgery to girl power, rape to religion, sex to singles. In today's post-feminist society, men and women are considered equal and feminism is often portrayed as being unfashionable and irrelevant; this book reveals seven vital issues at stake for today's feminists, calling a new generation to action.
The Equality Illusion argues that feminism continues to be one of the most urgent and relevant social justice campaigns. This book sets out the major issues for twenty-first century feminism, from work and education to sex, relationships and having children. Women have made huge strides in equality over the last century - feminism is now generally considered irrelevant, old-fashioned or embarrassing. Banyard argues that feminism continues to be a urgent social justice campaign.
Wednesday 29th September at 7pm Rob Penn - It's All About the Bike Tickets £3 It's All About the Bike tells the story of a journey to design and build a dream bike. From Stoke-on-Trent, where an artisan hand builds his frame, to California, home of the mountain bike, where the author tracks down the perfect wheels, via Portland, Milan and Coventry, birthplace of the modern bicycle, this narrative is about our love affair with cycling. Tuesday 12th October at 7pm Wu Ming - Anonymous Italian writing collective come to Pages to read from - Manituana Tickets - £3 As one of only three UK readings The Wu Ming Foundation come to Hackney to read from their latest novel Manituana, a historical epic of exodus and return, torn loyalties and desperate battles that spans the Atlantic, from the forests of America's northeast to the underworld of eighteenth-century London.
Wednesday 13th October at 7pm Ned Beauman - Boxer, Beetle Tickets - £3 Local author Ned Beauman's debut novel is a fizzing romp through East London to the English countryside following the misadventures of a Nazi Memorabilia collector called Fishy, a nine-toed Jewish boxer and a beetle collecting son of a prominent British aristocrat.
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Coming up...
Thursday 23rd September 2010 at 7pm
Kat Banyard, author of The Equality Illusion and Catherine Redfern and Kirstin Aune, authors of Reclaiming the F Word: The New Feminist Movement come to Pages for a special joint event on the New Feminism.
Wednesady 29th September at 7pm
Robert Penn talks about It's All About the Bike: The Pursuit of Happiness on Two Wheels
Tuesday 12th October at 7pm
Wu Ming come to Pages!
Wednesday 13th October at 7pm
The controversial Ned Beauman talks about his great new novel Boxer, Beattle
Date to be confirmed
Newly local author, Rebecca Hunt, talks about her much lauded debut novel Mr Chartwell
Thursday 21st October at 7pm
Lived in London - a joint event with the Hackney Society about Hackney's Blue Plaques