I’m doing an event at the Stoke Newington Bookstore tomorrow night (Wed. 19/10) so I thought I’d do a google and see if I could find anything interesting about the place. This is what I found.
1. The Romans built the High Street in 47 AD. It was another 1900 years before Barclays got around to opening a branch there.
2. It’s always been a hotbed of nonconformist worship and radical politics. Apparently.
3. The Stoke part of Stoke Newington means ‘tree stump.’
If you’ve got nothing better to do, why not pop along to my talk and check out this patently interesting suburb of London for yourself. The store is at number 159 on the above mentioned High Street and while I can’t promise any nonconformist worship or tree stumps, it will be a rollicking journey through my life as a travel writer.
The talk starts at 8pm and you’ll find more details here >>
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Sorry, I cant come to your event, it’s a bit far (from Austria…) – good luck for that and nice people to talk to.
I have just finished “Swahili for the broken hearted”, a nice book, funny and very good and easy to read ( English is not my mothertongue…). I just wished that the book could be a bit longer, so many things seems to have been left out.
I bought your book just recently at Johannesburg Airport, returning back from Zimbabwe. Last time (to be correct May 04) I passed by at the very good bookstore at JNB airport, I have bought Paul Theroux’s book… Both of you travel writers are widely unknown in the german speaking world, where “travel books” often mean unintentional hilarious survival adventures of unshaved mountaineers…
Just a quick note to say thanks to everyone who came along to Stoke Newington last night. The weather was really horrible so it was much appeciated.
Also thanks to Kylie from NZ who informed me that Thommo from Swahili for the Broken-Hearted is still alive and kicking. Good to hear!