Craig Taylor

This lively field guide to Londoners is part Dickens and part Studs Terkel. Interviewing a diverse cross-section of the city’s denizens, from an iconic Buckingham Palace guard to a retired driver to a heroin addict, Taylor gives us some eighty distinct views of life in London.

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Tonight we're all anglophiles! Join us at The Book Cellar as we welcome journalist Craig Taylor, who will be reading from his wonderful new book, 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. London—the real city, not the place visited by thousands upon thousands of tourists—is a lively, exciting, and confounding metropolis that defies easy characterization. Its six hundred square miles are home to 7.5 million people, each of whom has a story to tell. In his fresh, often surprising narrative portrait, Taylor follows in the footsteps of oral historians such as Studs Terkel, painting an epic-scaled composite canvas of the great city through the words of its inhabitants. Street Cred: David Rakoff calls Taylor “the real deal: a peerless journalist and a beautiful craftsman.” Yeah, it's that cool. SPECIAL OFFER: BRING A PASSPORT WITH A LONDON CUSTOMS STAMP AND RECIEVE 20% OFF BOOK PURCHASE THAT EVENING AND ENTRY TO A RAFFLE FOR A FREE BOOK!

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