Street food vendors from Brixton Village offer an eclectic international menu, with something to suit every taste. There’s always a buzzing atmosphere, no matter the time of day, and you can be certain you’ll have a great night at Hope & Anchor. Above all her prose is illuminated by a painterly sensitivity to light. Alice inherits her talent from Bee, who is slaughtered in reprisal for harbouring Tamil refugees. "Words were not his thing; explanations were best done with brushes. The colour of a place, the angle of the light, a tree, these spoke volumes." Each weekend the roof will be raised withperformances from house, garage and disco DJs, plustraditional Latin American brass bands and cabaret. The line-up includes Ben Pearce, Norman Jay MBE, Late Nite Tuff Guy, Maxxi Soundsystem, Paul Woolford and PBR Streetgang. And if you thought Sunday was a day of rest, think again: the beach’s Sunday sessions will havesome of London’s top promoters,including Solid Grooves, Metalheadz, Midnight Riot and Supa Dupa Fly, taking over the roof for Cuban-style parties. At first, the war seems safely remote from Alice's blissful childhood. But intimations of the conflict begin to infiltrate; first when Alice is discriminated against at school for having a Tamil father; then when her mother loses her baby due to the wilful negligence of a Sinhalese doctor. The family head for Britain, where the Fonsekas' marriage crumbles as Alice's father joins a radical sect which supports the Tigers, and her mother slips into dementia, crafting cardboard coffins and dressing a collection of dolls in her dead baby's clothes.

If that’s not enough, the beach will also be hosting a summer-long residency from Ministry Does Fitness so you can get sweaty inHIIT, zumba and yoga sessions. If you’re more of a film buff than a fitness freak, Brixton Rooftop will be hosting a series of rooftop cinema screenings, including cult classics and guilty pleasures.

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Like any working class area in London Brixton once had an edge, but in April 1981 this place earned particular notoriety as the scene of a riot brought about by inequality and unemployment.

I’ve rounded up the very best rooftop bars in Brixton so have a look through and book into your favourites! 1. Lost in Brixton

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Brixton Jamm has become a staple party venue for Brixton and South London bringing all kinds of great music to the people for over 10 years, cementing them as one of South London’s must-visit venues. Lidos (outdoor swimming pools) came into fashion in the 1920s and 30s and sprang up in parks across the capital. On the flipside Brixton has also always been cool, diverse, creative and full of fun, with some of the best live music venues in London and some of its wildest nightspots. Brixton Village has broken out as a great place to go for international food, representing all the local communities.

She left Sri Lanka aged ten years, and has since lived in Britain. She studied for an MA at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, Oxford, and was Leverhulme Artist in Residence at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. She was recently awarded a Fellowship in Visual Arts by the Arts and Humanities Research Council of Great Britain. Those lights used to hang from a continuous glass canopy that traced the shopfronts, but sadly this was damaged in the Second World War and was eventually removed. Music: Reggae, Soca, Calypso, Reggaeton, Bashment, Afro, Soul, Ska & Commercial hits indoor and outdoor One of London’s premier live music venues, the 4,921-capacity Brixton Academy has booked an unbelievable roll-call of music talent since it opened in 1983. Previously this building had been the Astoria Cinema, completed in 1929. Although the lower seating was removed when the cinema was converted in the 70s, a lot of the original neo-Renaissance details remain, like a proscenium arch, false loggia, balustrade and Corinthian columns.My personal favourite is Jalisco as I’m a huge fan of Latin American food, and who doesn’t love a burrito, right? verifyErrors }}{{ message }}{{ /verifyErrors }}{{