An Unreliable Guide to London

Kit Caless

ISBN 10: 1910312223 / ISBN 13: 9781910312223

Editore: Influx Press, 2016

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AN UNRELIABLE GUIDE TO LONDON brings together twenty-six stories about the lesser known parts of a world renowned city. Stories that stretch the reader's definition of the truth. Stories that have you questioning whether reality, and fiction simultaneously. Stories that will tell you there are wind nymphs in North Clapham tube station, a horse sized swan at Brentford Ait, Sleeping Clinics in NW3 and celebrations for St Margaret's Day of the Dead. Taking its cue from travel guides, London histories and books like Tired of London, Tired of Life, AN UNRELIABLE GUIDE TO LONDON will shake up the canon of London writing with a tongue firmly routed in its cheek.UNRELIABLE GUIDE TO LONDON is the perfect summer read for city dwellers up and down the country. With a list of contributors reflecting the multilayered, complex social structures of the city, it is the perfect 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 JaquesWill Wiles, Irenosen Okojie, Paul Ewen, Noo Saro Wiwa, Salena Godden and many more.

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• Titolo: An Unreliable Guide to London
• Editore: Influx Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1910312223
• ISBN 13: 9781910312223
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Condizione: Very Good

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Riassunto

AN UNRELIABLE GUIDE TO LONDON brings together twenty-six stories about the lesser known parts of a world renowned city. Stories that stretch the reader's definition of the truth. Stories that have you questioning whether reality, and fiction simultaneously. Stories that will tell you there are wind nymphs in North Clapham tube station, a horse sized swan at Brentford Ait, Sleeping Clinics in NW3 and celebrations for St Margaret's Day of the Dead. Taking its cue from travel guides, London histories and books like Tired of London, Tired of Life, AN UNRELIABLE GUIDE TO LONDON will shake up the canon of London writing with a tongue firmly routed in its cheek.UNRELIABLE GUIDE TO LONDON is the perfect summer read for city dwellers up and down the country. With a list of contributors reflecting the multilayered, complex social structures of the city, it is the perfect 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 JaquesWill Wiles, Irenosen Okojie, Paul Ewen, Noo Saro Wiwa, Salena Godden and many more

Recensione

"Acerbic, irreverent but affectionate. And from another perspective, it's also an ode - a collection of love letters to a place that every strand of humanity can call home. A notion that this anthology, perhaps unintentionally, captures beautifully." --Bookmunch

"...this is London through the eyes of its people: a proudly patchwork, multiply striated band of immigrants, adventurers, aid workers, delinquents, and discoverers. In a city that is perhaps best described as a palimpsest, a self-renewing parchment for plans and ideas, An Unreliable Guide to London brings its reader in on the subterranean levels of how folk live, love and traverse space." - Panorama Journal

"...extends the tradition of writing this city and turns it on its head. This collection of odd, complex and at times absurd stories set far from famous landmarks and glittering lights celebrates all that I love about London." - Times Higher Education, Books of 2016

&quotWe are the writers of whom some will claim they ve never heard. Perhaps we do not even exist. But we map this city with our words and fill its spaces with our breath. We are London." - Psychogeographic Review

"An Unreliable Guide to London is a timely and significant contribution to the rich tradition of London literature." - The Lonesome Reader

&quotThe places frequented by Shakespeare and Dickens can keep their blue plaques. You re more likely to find these writers scribbling in an Asda carpark." - Time Out London

"An Unreliable Guide to London is a smorgasbord of peeks and views, speculation and imagination, on the London most people never see. There is an amazingly wide variety of material drawn from an equally diverse group of writers." - Speculiction

"...a formidable anthology of top-notch city writing." - Hackney Citizen

"...this is not a guidebook, too unspecific and without map, but an excellent collection of compressed slivers of London of which I m sure many exist exactly like described here. This is a book about delicious lamp chops, drunken night journeys through Camden, vindictive terriers (stuffed), and rusting Victorian dreadnoughts slowly becoming islands in the Thames." - Hong Kong Review of Books

&quotThis is London, inglorious yet profound." - Never Imitate

&quotBuy it. Read it. Just don t blame me if you feel the need to float around London and discover people and places you could never have dreamed of before..." - What the Log Had to Say

&quotWe are taken into both the obscure and the well-known locales of London via small-scale dramas that subtly illuminate both the characters and the areas it's a book to read and then put in one's pocket before visiting the variety of locations discussed...an engaging and provocative collection." - Crimetime

"An Unreliable Guide to London is a quirky and passionate collection that wonderfully encapsulates an alternative view of London and will leave you with a curiosity to explore London s lesser known areas." - Bookshelf Butterfly

&quotAbove all, the tales show a wonderful diversity of voice doing much justice to the multi-cultural and international megalopolis that is London." --Jaffalogue