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