{"product_id":"londoners-the-days-and-nights-of-london-nowas-told-by-those-who-love-it-hate-it-live-it-left-it-and-long-for-it-isbn-9780062005854","title":"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","description":"\u003cp\u003e“Craig Taylor is the real deal: a peerless journalist and a beautiful craftsman.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e—David Rakoff, New York Times bestselling author of The Fraud and Half Empty\u003cp\u003e“Londoners is a wonderful book—I wanted it to be twice as long.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e—Diana Athill, New York Times bestselling author of Somewhere Towards the End\u003cp\u003eIn Londoners, acclaimed journalist Craig Taylor paints readers an epic portrait of today’s London that is as rich and lively as the city itself. In the style of Studs Terkel (Working, Hard Times, The Good War) and Dave Isay (Listening Is an Act of Love), Londoners offers up  the stories, the gripes, the memories, and the dreams of those in the great and vibrant British metropolis who “love it, hate it, live it, left it, and long for it,” from a West End rickshaw driver to a Soldier of the Guard at Buckingham Palace to a recovering heroin addict seeing Big Ben for the very first time. Published just in time for the 2012 London Olympic Games, Londoners is a glorious literary celebration of one of the world’s truly great cities.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat is the city but the people?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eVoices of London:\u003c\/b\u003e Listen to the real stories of over eighty Londoners in their own words—from a currency trader in the City and a dominatrix in Vauxhall to a funeral director in Canning Town.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eA Living Social History:\u003c\/b\u003e Discover the anxieties, ambitions, and dreams of the people who make up a modern-day metropolis, creating a vibrant snapshot of the capital in the twenty-first century.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eSlice of Life Stories:\u003c\/b\u003e Explore every facet of city life, from arriving on an overnight flight and navigating the Tube to finding love, keeping the peace, and saying goodbye.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eInspired by Studs Terkel:\u003c\/b\u003e For fans of classic oral histories like \u003ci\u003eWorking\u003c\/i\u003e, this book captures the authentic, demotic speech of a city in a rich collage of testimony.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e | \u003cp\u003eFive years in the making, Londoners is a fresh and compulsively readable view of one of the world's most fascinating cities—a vibrant narrative portrait of the London of our own time, featuring unforgettable stories told by the real people who make the city hum.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcclaimed writer and editor Craig Taylor has spent years traversing every corner of the city, getting to know the most interesting Londoners, including the voice of the London Underground, a West End rickshaw driver, an East End nightclub doorperson, a mounted soldier of the Queen's Life Guard at Buckingham Palace, and a couple who fell in love at the Tower of London—and now live there. With candor and humor, this diverse cast—rich and poor, old and young, native and immigrant, men and women (and even a Sarah who used to be a George)—shares indelible tales that capture the city as never before.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTogether, these voices paint a vivid, epic, and wholly original portrait of twenty-first-century London in all its breadth, from Notting Hill to Brixton, from Piccadilly Circus to Canary Wharf, from an airliner flying into London Heathrow Airport to Big Ben and Tower Bridge, and down to the deepest tunnels of the London Underground. Londoners is the autobiography of one of the world's greatest cities.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e“Highly engaging. . . . Bursts with charm, edification, and life.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Remarkable. . . . Essential. . . . Enlightening. . . . \u003ci\u003eLondoners\u003c\/i\u003e offers an impression of the city’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].” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Impressive. . . . A scintillating oral history.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNewark Star Ledger\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“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.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePittsburgh Tribune-Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Fascinating. . . . Makes you want to join Taylor in “The London Chase.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMinneapolis Star Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Whether or not you know London, whether or not you love it, this book is for you. . . . A polyphonic hymn to the Big Smoke.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNewsday\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“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’t tell you how much I enjoyed it.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLucy Worsley, author of If Walls Could Talk\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“From Brixton to Piccadilly Circus, a fascinating oral history of contemporary London.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Immensely enjoyable. . . . Reminded us of Studs Terkel’s best books.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Observer's Very Short List\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“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’s patient and sympathetic hands, regular people become poets, philosophers, orators.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Samuel Johnson said, ‘When you are tired of London, you’re tired of life.’ Craig Taylor is tired of neither London nor life, and this book is a gorgeous, utterly irresistible—even addictive—ode to both.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDavid Shields, bestselling author of The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead and Reality Hunger\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Fans of Studs Terkel’s insightful oral histories will be delighted to discover a successor in Taylor. . . . His book brings London to life as it is—ever changing, ever eternal, ever unforgettable. A delight!” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal (starred review)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Craig Taylor is the real deal: a peerless journalist and a beautiful craftsman. He’d be a household name already if he wasn’t so modest. He’ll be one anyway in due course.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDavid Rakoff, bestselling author of Fraud and Half Empty\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Alternately poignant, uplifting, amusing and sad. . . . A nicely polished oral history—good reading.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[\u003ci\u003eLondoners\u003c\/i\u003e] provides an ambitious, wide-ranging compilation of oral histories by the people who live, work, and, even quit the city, with a lively, unvarnished sense of the feelings the city inspires.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A compelling oral history.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Independent (London)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Often reading like short stories, the 80 interviews in Craig Taylor’s Londoners are engrossing. Full of details [and] full of life.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eObserver (London)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eLondoners\u003c\/i\u003e is a wonderful book—I wanted it to be twice as long.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDiana Athill, bestselling author of Somewhere Towards the End\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A remarkable new book that celebrates the city’s endless diversity. . . . Five stars.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTime Out London\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“An epic portrait in eighty voices that shows the city to be just [as] Dickensian as it has ever been.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDavid Nicholls, bestselling author of One Day\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“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.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eOona King, The Times (London)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A haunting snapshot of contemporary London, by a Canadian whose intimate interviews with the city’s inhabitants are both charming and revealing.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eEvening Standard (London)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Splendid. . . . A remarkable volume [of] countless funny, terrifying, epic stories.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGuardian (London)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“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. 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