East London – Orchid in the Office

February 22, 2018March 30, 2018

The Blackest Streets

The Nichol was a dark place, narrower, grimier, than anywhere else in London in the early twentieth century. Sarah Wise describes it at a place with shades of grey, rubbish, monotony of blackened buildings, broken furniture, smoke, ragged women, dead dogs, few beds. It was known as “the Empire of Hunger.” Its people struggled week…

February 8, 2018September 19, 2021

A Child of the Jago

There are countless books I have ashamedly failed to finish. Whether that be at fault of the book, its middle perhaps uninspired, or at fault of my own, and my revolving interests, or at fault of time, and its incomprehensible ability to feel the opposite of plentiful. However, Arthur Morrison’s A Child of the Jago, is a novel…

February 5, 2018May 1, 2018

Rodinsky’s Room

Rodinsky’s Room is a novel about a woman’s search for a man who disappeared in the late 1960’s, leaving nothing but an unfinished cup of tea and an unkempt room behind him. The attic room of the synagogue on 19 Princelet Street garnered attention from writers, journalists, and photographers, but no one began intensive research…