To mark their fifth anniversary Hoxton Mini Press are publishing a compilation book that will feature photography from the bestselling book series 'East London Photo Stories.' Appearing alongside new text and a map of East London showing where the projects were taken, each chapter of selected images captures a unique aspect of the area's colourful character: from Hackney's eccentric inhabitants and tranquil waterways to famous flower markets, 1980s Dalston and wild nightlife in Shoreditch. Featuring work by Dougie Wallace, Zed Nelson, Jenny Lewis, David Campany & Polly Braden, David George and many more.

Every Sunday a small army of amateur footballers descend on Hackney Marshes. Known as the 'spiritual home of amateur football', the marshes consist of some 80 pitches where more than 50 matches are played each week from September until April. Photographer Chris Baker, an amateur footballer himself, has spent the past three seasons documenting this Sunday ritual.

These stories serve as an introduction to Nicholas Hagger’s five volumes totalling 1,001 stories (an echo of The Thousand and One Nights, or Arabian Nights). They are grouped in two parts which reflect the two aspects of the fundamental theme of world literature outlined in his A New Philosophy of Literature: ‘Follies and Vices’ and ‘Quest for the One’. These stories condemn follies and vices in relation to an implied virtue – more than 150 vices are listed in a Preface – and present moments of heightened consciousness in which the universe is perceived as a unity.