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This is London
Life and Death in the World City
Introduction
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.
Awards and Recognition
Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-fiction 2016
Shortlisted for the Ryszard Kapuscinski Award for Literary Reportage 2019
Reviews
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