Get The Gin Lane Gazette Printed
Collaborative publishers Unbound are waiting to see if there’s interest in a Georgian tabloid.
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Smoke Joins Facebook, Twitter
Smoke, the bestest fanzine about London in all the world, is now on both Twitter and Facebook. If you love London, you definitely want to follow them.
Competition: Win Tickets To Foyles Indie Weekend
By Buckaroo Kid The well-read may rejoice as Foyles lay on another set of publisher days this autumn. First up is Indie Weekend on 11-12 September with PD James, Geoff Dyer, Emily Woof, Philip Kerr and many more participating in talks, discussions, readings, Q&A and …
New Issue Of Smoke: A London Peculiar
Our favourite magazine about London is on sale once again. Smoke is an occasional periodical of fiction and non-fiction, photos and cartoons, poems and prose covering some of the less-noticed facets of the city. It’s the only place we can think of where you might …
Downing Street: The Browning Version
Coming to a used bookshop (if not landfill site) near you soon, it’s Sarah ‘n Gordon: The Downing Street Years. The recently dethroned Prime Minister’s better half has inked a deal with Ebury to pen a tome about her decade at Numbers 10 and 11. …
Illustrated London News Goes Digital
“Page 3! Christina Rossetti gets her kit off. Hot!” Between 1842 and 1971, the Illustrated London News was one of the capital’s major publishing institutions. The newspaper pioneered the use of drawings in the service of reportage, and chronicled developments locally, nationally and overseas. For …
The Gallows Ballads of 19th Century London
For 200 years, a lurid trade in other people’s misfortunes was centred on the Seven Dials area of Covent Garden. Gallows ballads – rapidly produced broadsheets describing recent crimes – sung the malaises of the country’s condemned, often selling hundreds of thousands of copies. A …
Take a Fake: Islington & Finsbury Life Glosses Up Politics
Who knew Floella Benjamin was still around? There’s something ever so slightly suspicious about the new edition of Islington & Finsbury Life magazine. It’s a glossy, gossipy Take-a-Break-style title of the sort one finds in the waiting rooms of dentists and barbershops, full of real …
Newsagents Paying To Stock Free Evening Standard
The Evening Standard might now be free to its readers, but not necessarily to its vendors. Editor Geordie Greig revealed to Radio 4′s Media Show that ‘dozens’ of newsagents are paying up to 2p per copy to stock the paper as a loss leader. Further, …
Mark Frith Finally, Truthfully, Officially Is Time Out Editor
“First thing we do, fix the bloody central heating so I don’t have to wear this ridiculous coat.” Seems we jumped the gun a bit when we reported the appointment of Mark Frith to the permanent role of Editor of Time Out London. We took …
Apology Not Accepted: Standard Circulation Drops 20%
By bltphoto in the Londonist Flickr pool. The Russian-backed Evening Standard relaunched last month in a vortex of orange and apology not seen since KIlroy was nixed by the BBC. The first monthly circulation figures will be announced today and are expected to show a …
