This is London: Life and Death in the World City

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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

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B017HNO8FA
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Picador
Accessibility ‏ : ‎ Learn more
Publication date ‏ : ‎ January 28, 2016
Edition ‏ : ‎ Main Market
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 56.8 MB
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Print length ‏ : ‎ 433 pages
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1447274803
Page Flip ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Reading age ‏ : ‎ 18 years and up
Best Sellers Rank: #764,901 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store) #93 in England Travel #223 in Journalism Writing Reference (Kindle Store) #243 in Urban Sociology
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