Tales of Two Londons - Stories from a Fractured City

Fiction, reportage and poetry on the subject of London's close-knit wealth and poverty, featuring Ali Smith, Arifa Akbar, Ruth Padel and many others.

About the author

Ali Smith was born in Inverness and lives in Cambridge. She is the author of three collections of stories and three novels. Hotel World was shortlisted for both the Booker Prize and the Orange Prize in 2001 and her latest novel, The Accidental, won the 2006 Whitbread Novel Award. Ali reviews regularly for the Guardian, the Scotsman and the TLS.
Nicolette Jones is a writer, journalist, literary critic and broadcaster. Her book The Plimsoll Sensation was a Radio 4 Book of the Week and won two maritime literature prizes. Her other books include The American Art Tapes: Voices of Twentieth-Century Art. She is the long-standing children's books reviewer of the Sunday Times and was a nominee for the Eleanor Farjeon Award for outstanding service to the world of children's books. In 2022, she was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

Summary

Featuring writers such as Ali Smith, Jon Snow, Arifa Akbar and Ruth Padel alongside stories from previously unpublished immigrants and refugees, this is a compelling collection which draws together fiction, reportage and poetry to capture the schisms defining contemporary London.

Product details

• Authors: Claire Armistead, Ferdous Sadat, Simpson, Ali Smith, Ed Vulliamy
• Assisted by: Claire Armistead (Editor)
• Publisher: Arcadia Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.05.2019
• EAN: 9781911350606
• ISBN: 978-1-911350-60-6
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 196 mm x 28 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; London, Greater London, Cultural Studies, Central London, Anthologies: general, Biography and non-fiction prose, Anthologies (non-poetry), Urban communities, Poetry anthologies (various poets), c 2010 to c 2020, c 2010 to c 2019