Londoners: The Days And Nights Of London Now As Told By Those Who Love It, Hate It, Live It, Left It And Long For It

Description

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.

Author description

Craig Taylor is an acclaimed journalist, playwright, writer and editor. He has had a series of weekly columns in the Guardian for most of the past decade and he is the author of City Walks: London, A Million Tiny Plays about Britain, and Return to Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village. He is the editor of the literary magazine, Five Dials. Born in Canada, he lives in London.