Broadway Market Pop-Up Shop
On Saturday we put on our hats and gloves and did something a little different: we set up a one-day market stall outside the Broadway Bookshop in Hackney, to launch the paperback of Iain Sinclair’s Hackney, that Rose-Red Empire.
Iain was there to sign books and attract the attention of passers by – and with the hustle and bustle of the market at its Saturday best, there was no shortage of interest. Readers who have seen the hardback will remember that the jacket doubled up as an eye-catching map poster, and luckily we’d saved a few of those, so everyone buying the paperback went home with a special map of Hackney as a bonus.
Also on sale to complement the book were some gorgeous prints by artist and graphic designer Susanna Edwards. In collaboration with Iain, Susanna made these using photos which Iain has taken around Hackney over the last thirty years. She selected passages from the book and asked Iain to write them out by hand, then put the text and images together in a variety of combinations.
The poster you can see below shows the Four Aces club in Dalston.
