This Is London
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This groundbreaking work of reportage takes readers deep into the hidden lives of modern London. Through hundreds of interviews conducted across the city, from building sites to nail bars, from bedsits to airport hotels, it reveals a metropolis transformed by migration and inequality that few Londoners truly see.
The author spent five years meeting the people who keep the capital running: the Polish builder, the Romanian care worker, the African street preacher, the Indian shopkeeper. Their stories paint an unflinching portrait of contemporary urban life—sometimes shocking, often moving, always illuminating. This is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand what London has become in the twenty-first century, stripping away comfortable assumptions to expose the raw reality of life in one of the world's great cities.
