"Craig Taylor is the real deal: a peerless journalist and a beautiful
craftsman."
--David Rakoff, New York Times bestselling author of The Fraud and
Half Empty
"Londoners is a wonderful book--I wanted it to be twice as long."
--Diana Athill, New York Times bestselling author of Somewhere
Towards the End
In 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.