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Londoners

The Days and Nights of London Now, As Told by Those Who Love It, Hate It, Live It, Left It and Long …

By Craig Taylor

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| Hardcover | 9781847082534

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Here are the voices of London - rich and poor, native and immigrant, women and men (and a Sarah who used to be a George) - witnessed by Craig Taylor, an acclaimed Canadian journalist, playwright and writer, who has lived in the city for ten years, exploring its hidden corners and listening to its reContinue

Here are the voices of London - rich and poor, native and immigrant, women and men (and a Sarah who used to be a George) - witnessed by Craig Taylor, an acclaimed Canadian journalist, playwright and writer, who has lived in the city for ten years, exploring its hidden corners and listening to its residents.

From the woman who is the voice of the London Underground to the man who plants the trees along Oxford Street; from a Muslim currency trader to a Guardsman at Buckingham Palace; from the marriage registrar at Westminster Town Hall to the director of the biggest Bethnal Green funeral parlour - together, these voices and many more, paint a vivid, epic and wholly fresh portrait of Twenty-First Century London.

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  • Londoners by Craig Taylor

    Whenever I'm mooching around London, especially in a neighbourhood I don't know very well, I tend to head straight for the nearest internet cafe. There are fewer of them than there once were since smartphones and Wi-Fi became commonplace. Still they ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Thu, 3 Nov 2011

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  • English Books
  • Hardcover 400 Pages
  • Edition: 1
  • ISBN-10: 184708253X
  • ISBN-13: 9781847082534
  • Publisher: Granta
  • Pub date: Nov 03, 2011
  • Also available as: eBook
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