Wanstead in print – we like it

Wanstead features in the new book from England’s greatest living novelist Jonathan Coe – and we can’t help thinking he might have been writing it when he visited for the Wanstead Book Festival in 2023.

The Proof of My Innocence is in some ways strongly in the tradition of much of Coe’s novels, reflecting contemporary politics in personal stories, but it also adds a layer of crime fiction too. The mention of Wanstead is no more than a cameo (the sort of thing we might have won in an auction) but for the record here it is:

And therein is perhaps a slogan for us: Wanstead… for some reason I really like it.

• The Proof of My Innocence is available online from Wanstead Bookshop with free delivery here.