Hackney, North-east London. 2012.

Twenty-five writers. Twenty-five different perspectives on a rapidly changing London borough.

From gentrification to supermarket sandwiches, Turkish Alevism to inner-city river living, middle-class civil war to pylon romance, "Acquired for Development by..." captures an alternative, insightful and sometimes bizarre take on modern London life.

Contents:

A Dream Life of Hackney Marshes by Gareth Rees
Fibre Optic Tree by Anita DeMahy
Rivers of Change by Nell Frizzell
http:// by Lee Rourke
Dalston Lane by Daniel Kramb
Dalston Kittiwakes by Tim Burrows
The Battle of Kingsland Road by Paul Case
Tara by Gavin James Bower
Neo-Noir Hackney Haikus by Natalie Hardwick
Pavel's Smokes + Fortune by Molly Naylor
Tautologies by Gary Budden
2061 by Ashlee Christoffersen
Demolition: Clapton Park Estate 1993 by Kieran Duddy
A Hackney Triptych by David Dawkins
Electric Blue by Ania Ostrowska
Hackney Numbers by Sam Berkson
The Finest Store by Kit Caless
'Ackney by Isaura Barbé-Brown
Suki's Cherry by Georgia Myers
All Gone by Andrea Watts
Foucault Over the Garden Fence by Eithne Nightingale
Dark Island: Wallis Road 09.03.11 by Colin Priest
Paper Corpse by Rosie Higham-Stainton
Wicklove by Siddhartha Bose