Posts tagged with ‘London literature’

  • London Fictions

    London Fictions is a book about London, real and imagined. Two dozen contemporary writers, from Cathi Unsworth to Courttia Newland, reflect on some of the novelists and the novels that have helped define the modern ity, from George Gissing to Zadie Smith, Hangover Square to Brick Lane.

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  • City Lit London

    London is the World’s most happening city and in City Lit London over sixty popular writers celebrate the ever-changing landscape of this amazing metropolis. Will Self gets inside the head of a London cabby … Jan Morris flies into Heathrow… Alan Bennett gives us a ride in the Queen’s carriage… Rachel Lichtenstein takes us for a walk down Brick Lane… Xiaolu Guo enjoys a greasy spoon in Hackney… Sam Selvon recalls the boat train arriving from Trinidad…. Dostoyevsky strolls down the Haymarket… Barbara Cartland takes us to a West End ball… and much, much more.

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