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Quinto Bookshop
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Secondhand bookstore Quinto moves from Charing Cross Road to Leyton

After 40 years in the West End, it’s now set up shop in Leyton Midland

Art

Inside Abbey Mills Pumping Station E15: exclusive photos and history

Its Victorian grandeur is included in a photographic book by Peter Dazeley and Mark Daly

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Why I’ve started the East London Indie Book Club

Bookseller and fiction editor Sam Burt on a new monthly culture club at the Leyton Star

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Unchartered Streets: take a six-mile hike around Leyton with this new guide

Author Matt Haynes talks through some highlights of his fascinating new 92-page guidebook to the streets of E10

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Six Things We Learnt This Week – from pop-ups to geese in trees

Phlox, Crate Brewery, Yard Sale, Yardarm, Marmelo: tips and observations for the last few days of lockdown

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Catch dog-loving author Kate Spicer at Phlox Books

The journalist and film-maker comes to Leyton with a dolichocephalic friend in tow

Art

A brief guide to Korero Publishing House

This local literary enterprise has a focus on kustom kulture, comics and the offbeat

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Everything you need to know about Phlox Books on Francis Road

Books, Allpress coffee, outside seating – and literary events. Owner Aimée Madill spills the beans

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All You Read Is Love: now open for another three years

The hit Leytonstone bookshop-cum-whatever is now here for good. Practically! Show your support….

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All You Read is Love. Really.

It’s a hard-working multi-use space. But one that’s perfect at pretty much any time of day, from coffee to cocktails, says Miranda Eason