A Bookshop for All

Pleased to have an interview and picture in the Newham Bookshop's A Bookshop For All, which has interviews with staff, customers, readers and writers celebrating 44 years of being the prime literary salon of Barking Road. The book is £6 to buy from the Newham Bookshop. My interview features memories of the District line of dreams from Upminster to Upton Park and hanging out at the bookshop with the eclectic likes of Benjamin Zephaniah, Gilda O'Neil, Cass Pennant and many other writers. As long-standing friend and supporter Michael Rosen says in the book’s foreword: “Newham Bookshop is much more than a bookshop. It’s a philosophy.”