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Rosemary Brown: activist and author

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A belief in humanity, heroines and community has led Rosemary Brown to volunteer with refugees, champion forgotten women in history – in particular the adventurous American traveller,  Nellie Bly – and also play an active part locally in the Canonbury Society. Interview by Nicola Baird. Photos by Kimi Gill Although…

Writers’ workshop during Inspiring Islington

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Everyone has a story – but sometimes it’s hard to move it on to paper. During the Inspiring Islington photo exhibition at Islington Museum (which you can still catch, it ends 3 June) six brave people came to share their stories and hone their interviewing technique with Nicola Baird.  This…

Sarah Matthias: author

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When Highbury local Sarah Matthias isn’t busy as membership secretary of the Islington Choral Society she’s writing books. Here she talks about life in Islington and the inspiration for her latest novel, ‘A Berlin Love Song’. Interview by Nicola Baird & photos by Kimi Gill A Berlin Love Song follows the story of Lili,…

Maria North: sibling poet

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How do you stay in touch with your family when meet-ups are rare, or impossible? Email and Skype can work well, but Maria North and her three sisters went a step further – they challenged each other to write poems. Five years later, and many emails, they’ve published a book,…

Angela Neustatter: writer

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Everyone has a story. Journalist and author Angela Neustatter talks about the joys of sharing a home with her extended family. Interview by Nicola Baird For years Angela Neustatter has lived in Islington writing talked-about features for newspapers. She ran the Guardian fashion pages while living off Highbury Fields, and…

Perdita & Honor Cargill: authors of Waiting for Callback

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Everyone has a story. Mum and daughter writing duo Perdita & Honor Cargill, who live in Barnsbury, launched their funny first novel for teenagers in February – just a fortnight before the sequel was due to be delivered. So how did they do it? Plus a chance to WIN A…

Nicola Baird: your interviewer

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Student Sarah Graham on the 2012-13 Journalism MA course at City University wanted an interview with the interviewer of Islington Faces blog… So this is the interviewer’s story. If you’d like to contact Sarah, you can follow her on twitter @SarahGraham7 or have a look at www.sarah-graham.co.uk. And a big thank…