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Hall, Tarquin

Tarquin Hall is the author of Salaam Brick Lane: A Year in the New East End, published last year. He lived on Brick Lane for two and a half years but has since gone up-market and moved to Hackney.

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Uncle Solly’s World

Tarquin Hall on Emanuel Litvinoff, Journey Through a Small Planet

My favourite desk stood between tall shelves crammed with Bengali, Somali and Urdu classics, which had replaced the Yiddish collection. Here, I read my way through all the history books and memoirs on east London. These included an extensive collection of ‘Cor-Blimey-There’s-Nothing-Like-a-Knees-Up!’ autobiographies, and the ‘Dodgy Geezers that I ’ave Known’ genre, but thankfully, there were more thoughtful accounts on offer. Among them, I discovered Emanuel Litvinoff ’s Journey Through a Small Planet – a masterpiece that rivals George Orwell’s best non fiction. In fact it was to inspire me to write my own account of life on Brick Lane.

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