I couldn’t live without it, but is it doing me any harm? I looked into the nutritional value of coffee, and whether we should be paying attention to recent studies into its preventative effect over cancer. Click the cover to see the supplement.
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Is coffee good for you?
Posted in Food & drink, Health & lifestyle, Writing samples on December 18, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Is this London’s smallest bookshop?
Posted in Arts & entertainment, Books, London, Writing samples on November 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Wapping Bookshop, a set on Flickr. Is Wapping Bookshop London’s smallest?
#guardianbookswap – Or, How Carrie Got Dumped At London Fashion Week
Posted in Arts & entertainment, Blogging, Books, Writing samples on September 22, 2011 | 1 Comment »
I’ve left my book in London. It’s a good book, one I’m sorry to see go and one that most passers-by will probably want to shred with their teeth. I gave it away to a stranger, but they haven’t even noticed it yet. Around the UK, thousands of naive and dreamy readers like myself will [...]
Interview: Author David Mitchell on his pop-up ‘immersive reading room’ in Spitalfields
Posted in Arts & entertainment, Blogging, Books, Theatre, tagged architecture, books, east london on March 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
A promo campaign for David Mitchell’s The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet has launched in a pop-up tea house in Spitalfields market, East London – I caught up with him hours after his first visit. The pop-up’s more rough and ready than Mitchell imagined but he was excited to see it realised. “It’s much [...]
Cover girl: my story hits the front page of the Hackney Citizen
Posted in Food & drink, Media, Travel & hospitality, Writing samples on January 31, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
My story about a new bar opening in Stoke Newington made the cover of the borough’s hyperlocal newspaper, the Hackney Citizen, in February. You can read more about Baby Bathhouse, and Hackney’s homegrown stories, on the website.