Londoners: The Days and Nights of London Now--As Told by Those Who Love It, Hate It, Live It, Left It, and Long for It
&#8220;A rich and exuberant kaleidoscopic portrait of a great, messy, noisy, daunting, inspiring, maddening, enthralling, constantly shifting Rorschach test of a place. . . . Delightful. . . . In Taylor&#8217;s patient and sympathetic hands, regular people become poets, philosophers, orators.&#8221; (New York Times Book Review)&#8220;Remarkable. . . . Essential. . . . Enlightening. . . .Londonersoffers an impression of the city&#8217;s people, a way to understand their motives and fears and the simmering rush. It captures the combination of quiet desperation and boundless optimism required to live [there].&#8221; (San Francisco Chronicle)&#8220;Whether or not you know London, whether or not you love it, this book is for you. . . . A polyphonic hymn to the Big Smoke.&#8221; (Newsday)&#8220;Fascinating. . . . Makes you want to join Taylor in &#8220;The London Chase.&#8221; (Minneapolis Star Tribune)&#8220;Engaging. . . . A treasury of compact vignettes from voices that are rarely heard but come closer to the truth of the city than any travel brochure or official document.&#8221; (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)&#8220;Impressive. . . . A scintillating oral history.&#8221; (Newark Star Ledger)&#8220;From Brixton to Piccadilly Circus, a fascinating oral history of contemporary London.&#8221; (Chicago Tribune)&#8220;A thrilling portrait of the city. . . . Enchanting. . . . I feel I almost learned more about Londoners from this book than from being a Londoner for more than four decades. . . . Too good to miss.&#8221; (Oona King, The Times (London))&#8220;The best book about London in at least a decade. . . . Masterful. . . . A cracking and insightful read [that] will still be widely enjoyed 50 years from now. Treat yourself . . . you really are investing in a classic.&#8221; (Londonist.com)&#8220;Fans of Studs Terkel&#8217;s insightful oral histories will be delighted to discover a successor in Taylor. . . . His book brings London to life as it is&#151;ever changing, ever eternal, ever unforgettable. A delight!&#8221; (Library Journal (starred review))&#8220;Immensely enjoyable. . . . Reminded us of Studs Terkel&#8217;s best books.&#8221; (The Observer's Very Short List)&#8220;A remarkable new book that celebrates the city&#8217;s endless diversity. . . . Five stars.&#8221; (Time Out London)&#8220;Splendid. . . . A remarkable volume [of] countless funny, terrifying, epic stories.&#8221; (Guardian (London))&#8220;Highly engaging. . . . Bursts with charm, edification, and life.&#8221; (Booklist)&#8220;Alternately poignant, uplifting, amusing and sad. . . . A nicely polished oral history&#151;good reading.&#8221; (Kirkus Reviews)&#8220;An epic portrait in eighty voices that shows the city to be just [as] Dickensian as it has ever been.&#8221; (David Nicholls, bestselling author ofOne Day)&#8220;Londonersis a wonderful book&#151;I wanted it to be twice as long.&#8221; (Diana Athill, bestselling author ofSomewhere Towards the End)&#8220;Samuel Johnson said, &#8216;When you are tired of London, you&#8217;re tired of life.&#8217; Craig Taylor is tired of neither London nor life, and this book is a gorgeous, utterly irresistible&#151;even addictive&#151;ode to both.&#8221; (David Shields, bestselling author ofThe Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be DeadandReality Hunger)&#8220;Ambitious [and] creative. . . . A book to deepen your relationship with London and make you fall in - or out - of love with it all over again. . . . I can&#8217;t tell you how much I enjoyed it.&#8221; (Lucy Worsley, author ofIf Walls Could Talk)&#8220;Craig Taylor is the real deal: a peerless journalist and a beautiful craftsman. He&#8217;d be a household name already if he wasn&#8217;t so modest. He&#8217;ll be one anyway in due course.&#8221; (David Rakoff, bestselling author ofFraudandHalf Empty)