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This is London: Life and Death in the World City

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11T 58M
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Engelsk
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This is London in the eyes of its the homeless, bankers, coppers, gangsters, carers and sex workers.

This is London in the voices of Poles, Arabs, Afghans, Nigerians, Romanians and Russians.

This is London as you've never seen it before.

Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-fiction 2016 Shortlisted for the Ryszard Kapuscinski Award for Literary Reportage 2019

'This Is London is an important and impressive book' Telegraph

'Full of nuggets of unexpected information about the lives of others . . . It recalls the journalism of Orwell' Financial Times

'Ben Judah grabs hold of London and shakes out its secrets' The Economist

© 2019 Picador (Lydbog): 9781529016291

Udgivelsesdato

Lydbog: 21. marts 2019

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