This Is London
Life and Death in the World City
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Narrated by:
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Joe Jameson
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By:
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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
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- VDS
- 02-08-19
Well researched, truthful and brave
I loved reading all the information, truth of the hidden London which I suspected existed but never saw with my own eyes.
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- Amazon Customer
- 03-11-24
The change in London since I lived there in 1960.
Way the different cultures were described, using accents,and descriptions of dress,brought the characters to life.
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- M. McGuirk
- 23-12-21
A Painful Read
I can’t say I enjoyed this book, it was very painful listening but at the same time I couldn’t put it down. Ben Judah admits the complete transformation of our society and instead of reacting like a little Hitler (Farage, Douglas Murray etc) he dives in an explores the World of the new Londoners. It makes bleak reading these people have made very painful journeys and are carrying scars that are still having a knock on effect. My criticism of the book is that there was hardly a happy story in it at all, yet I know of many very happy successful immigrant families with tighter more loving communities than those of the native population.
Our Governments use of the immigrant card is disgraceful and eye openers like this book will hopefully do something to build bridges across a divided London.
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