Novel set in 1950s HOLLYWOOD and EALING (London)
city-lit London
Location(s): London
Genre(s): Fiction
Era(s): Various
London is the world’s most happening, most exciting and most diverse city. From Roman stronghold and capital of the British Empire to financial powerhouse and city of the 2012 Olympics, London has always looked to the past and the future.
No one reflects this complexity better than London’s writers, whether home-grown, adopted or simply visiting. city-lit London offers us the best ever writing on this amazing city with over sixty dazzling writers. Join them as
Will Self gets inside the head of a London cabby
Jan Morris flies in to Heathrow
Monica Ali smells the curry on Brick Lane
Alan Bennett gives us a ride in the Queen’s carriage
Xiaolu Guo enjoys a greasy spoon café in Hackney
Helen Simpson takes us for a stroll on Hampstead Heath
Beryl Bainbridge attends Dr Johnson’s funeral in
Westminster Abbey
Virginia Woolf goes shopping in Oxford Street
Dostoyevsky strolls down the Haymarket …
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