This is London

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This truly extraordinary book is as raw, powerful, unflinching, witty, engaging, shocking, in-your-face and occasionally both heartwarming and heartbreaking as the great but complex and flawed city it chronicles. I've lived in London for three decades yet found something I didn't know about it on virtually every page' Andrew Roberts, author of Napoleon the Great'Having spent the last year meeting people along several of the world's busiest migration trails, it is fascinating to read Ben Judah's powerful account of where some of them end up. Judah has created an alternative and essential guide to London, and Londoners, in 2015.' Patrick Kingsley'Ben Judah offers no answers, but bears witness. He reports the stories of London's immigrants with a smart mind, a light touch and a brave and compassionate heart. These voices deserve to be heard. This is London is an important, state of the nation, eye-opening report from our increasingly ghettoized capital city.' Dan Boothby, author of Island of Dreams'This mesmerising, trenchant and deeply compassionate work of journalism is assuredly not just for a London audience. Rather it is a metropolitan microcosm of the human experience for anyone concerned about our turbulent world' Non-Fiction Book of the Month, Bookseller'Judah is an intrepid reporter and classy political scientist' Guardian'Judah has travelled far and wide. He's talked to men and women in all walks of life and, what's more, he's listened. There's a real freshness and vividness to his reportage, a real conviction in his analysis' Scotsman