The ground-breaking and bestselling group portrait of London today: a book as rich dynamic
lively and diverse as the city itself 'Epic' David Nicholls 'Electrifying' The Times
'This is a book to deepen your relationship with London and make you fall in - or out - of love
with it all over again... I can't tell you how much I enjoyed it' Evening Standard Here are
the voices of London - rich and poor native and immigrant women and men - witnessed by
acclaimed journalist playwright and writer Craig Taylor who spent five years exploring the
city and listening to its residents. From the woman whose voice announces the stations on the
London Underground to the man who plants the trees along Oxford Street from a Pakistani
currency trader to a Guardsman at Buckingham Palace - together these voices and many more
paint a vivid epic and wholly fresh portrait of twenty-first century London. '[A]
splendid oral history of the city... A remarkable volume' Guardian 'A substantial account
not just of our imaginary riverside capital but more vividly of himself: as inquirer
investigator part of a long and valuable lineage' Iain Sinclair Observer 'Memorable
funny and occasionally melancholy... A rich satisfying tapestry of metropolitan life' Sunday
Times
