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LONDON'S BURNING SEASON: ‘An Unreliable Guide to London’

An Unreliable Guide to London brings together 23 stories about the lesser known parts of a world renowned city. Some of the book’s contributing authors will be showing us everything you never knew about London.


An Unreliable Guide to London brings together 23 stories about the lesser known parts of a world renowned city. Stories that stretch the reader's definition of the truth and question reality. Stories of wind nymphs in South Clapham tube station, the horse sized swan at Brentford Ait, sleeping clinics in Islington and celebrations for St Margaret's Day of the Dead.

An Unreliable Guide to London is the perfect summer read for city dwellers up and down the country. With a list of contributors reflecting the multi-layered, complex social structures of the city, it is the guide to London, showing you everything that you never knew existed.

Features stories from M John Harrison, Yvvette Edwards, Chloe Aridjis, Nikesh Shukla, Courttia Newland, Juliet Jaques, Will Wiles, Irenosen Okojie, Paul Ewen, Noo Saro Wiwa, Salena Godden and many more.


Speaker(s):

Juliet Jacques | talks | www

 

Date and Time:

17 August 2016 at 7:00 pm

Duration:

1 hour 30 minutes

 

Venue:

Housmans Bookshop
5 Caledonian Road
King’s Cross
London
N1 9DX
020 7837 4473
http://www.housmans.com/

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