London City-lit

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London is the world's most happening, most exciting and most diverse city. And no one reflects this brilliant complexity better than London's writers, whether home-grown, adopted or simply visiting."City-Lit London" offers us the best 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 into 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 cafe in Hackney; Beryl Bainbridge attends Dr Johnson's funeral in Westminster Abbey; Sam Sevlon recalls the boat train arriving from Trinidad; Virginia Woolf goes shopping in Oxford Street; Barbara Cartland takes us to a West End ball; and, Dostoyevsky strolls down the Haymarket.Introduced by Peter WattsOther titles in the series: Berlin, Paris, Amsterdam, Dublin, Istanbul, Venice, St Petersburg, New York