This is London: Life and Death in the World City
Book by Ben Judah
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Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2016, formerly known as the Samuel Johnson Prize.This is the new London: an immigrant city. Over one-third of Londoners were born abroad, with half arriving since the millennium. This has utterly... Google Books
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This book explodes fossilized myths and offers a fresh, exciting portrait of what it's like to live, work, fall in love, raise children, grow old and die in ...
Jan 24, 2016 · An immersive account of life among London's recent arrivals is salutary but frustrating.
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Jan 7, 2016 · In This is London, the author turns his reporter's eye on home, immersing himself in the hidden world of the city's immigrants – from the ...
Apr 17, 2016 · Judah hunts out the shocking and sometimes bizarre areas of the city. We discover Beckton Alps in Newham: a toxic landfill converted into an ...
'London; a nation, not a city.' So wrote Benjamin Disraeli in 1870. 145 years later there can be little doubt that London is the UK's undiscovered country.
Sep 1, 2017 · This book explodes fossilized myths and offers a fresh, exciting portrait of what it's like to live, work, fall in love, raise children, grow ...
Simultaneously intimate and epic, here is a compulsive and deeply sympathetic book on this dizzying world city from one of our brightest new writers.
Apr 17, 2017 · The city Judah shows us is poor, desperate and deeply unhappy. I don't think it is a fair description of London as a whole, but it shows the ...
Jan 24, 2018 · It is something of a cliché that London, in its relationship with the rest of the United Kingdom, functions as another country.
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Sep 1, 2017 · This book explodes fossilized myths and offers a fresh, exciting portrait of what it's like to live, work, fall in love, raise children, grow ...