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This Is London

Life and Death in the World City

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This Is London

By: Ben Judah
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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

©2018 Ben Judah (P)2018 Macmillan Publishers International Ltd Emigration & Immigration Europe Great Britain Urban Words, Language & Grammar Writing & Publishing City Western Europe England

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the 1% creative writers book

I don't believe for a second this posh rich 1% author slept with a group of homeless Romanian beggars or pretended to be a russian illegal.

The author is so obsessed with race that he somehow can tell what ethnicity someone is by looking at them.

Everyone in this book seems to have the same posh rich boy view points as the author obsessed with race, making London seem like a cesspit of violence and hell..

Great fiction writing, but come on, this book is 99% fabricaction.

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