Diaspora City

Foreword by Ab Fab's Joanna Lumley with contributions from Booker Prize winners John Berger and Ben Okri, and Maggie Gee, Francis King, Toby Litt, Iain Sinclair and A. Sivanandan.

A cabbie reveals a London of the mind to his passengers. A young Gambian discovers love and betrayal after a chance encounter on the Underground. A waiter from Senegal provides an alphabetical tour of London while elsewhere we encounter young Londoners' experiences in various postal codes. An elderly man finds "every colour under the sun" in a mixed East End primary school and a gay Cypriot realizes that gay love and traditional marriage don't mix.

"A brilliantly evocative, heart-warming and varied picture of swinging London." -- Evening Standard