London Made Us: A Memoir of a Shape-Shifting City

by Robert Elms

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Robert Elms has seen his beloved city change beyond all imagining. London in his lifetime has morphed from a piratical, still bomb-scarred playground, to a swish cosmopolitan metropolis. Motorways driven through lost communities, murder miles becoming estate agents' dreams, accents changing, towers appearing. Yet still it remains to him the greatest place on earth. Elms takes us back through time and place to myriad Londons. He is our guide through a place that has seen scientific show more experiments conducted in subterranean lairs, a small community declare itself an independent nation and animals of varying exoticism roam free through its streets; a place his great-great-grandfather made the Elms' home over a century ago and a city that has borne witness to epoch- and world-changing events. show less

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LuxVestra 34 reviews

This is not really a book about London, it's about the author, a middle-aged herbert pining for his lost youth and self-consciously showing off his knowledge of rhyming slang. Too relentlessly blokey for me, I'm afraid. And there's no index.

Jul 19, 2022

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