MARJORIE MAYO recommends an accessible and unsettling novel that uses a true incident of death in the Channel to raise questions of wider moral responsibility
Eggs, Chips & Leo’s Cafe
Authentic slice of East End working-class life
MEMORY LANE: Hackney Downs and Dalston Lane, East London, 1960s postcard
MIK SABIERS wallows in a night of political punk and funk that fires both barrels at Trump
Reasonable radicalism, death in Abu Dhabi, locked-room romance, and sleuthing in the Blitz
SIMON DUFF recommends a new album from renowned composer and oud player Anour Brahem.
JAMES WALSH has a great night in the company of basketball players, quantum physicists and the exquisite timing of Rosie Jones
A New Awakening: Adventures In British Jazz 1966 - 1971, G3, and Buck Owens
JAMES WALSH is moved by an exhibition of graphic art that relates horrors that would be much less immediate in other media
A GROWING political awareness underscores Eggs, Chips & Leo’s Cafe, Brian Capaloff’s entertaining and poignant collection of reminiscences.
Being a memoir, these recollections might otherwise be of somewhat random occurrences, but the author’s socialist analysis ensures that they are each viewed as stepping stones to explaining the man he is today.
In an explanatory note at the start of the book, Capaloff is clear that this is an assertion of his and others’ working-class identity and not another book about the so-called middle class.
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