Ben Judah

Forfatteren har interviewet 22 personer fra forskellige steder i Europa og fortæller deres historie til dels med deres egne ord. Spændende, vedkommende og rørende skildringer, som gør indtryk på læseren.

This is important journalism, simply listening to immigrants who live on the unglamorous side of London: tenement labourers, litter-pickers, betting shop regulars, wannabe gangsters, low level officials, prostitutes, cornershop clerks, agency carers. It's about poverty, segregation, white flight, boredom, pessimism. This, too, is London.

Great when it focuses on the poor in London - some truly depressing and eye-opening journalism - but far less compelling when it moves onto the wealthy. Judah also often slips into a more fiction-based style which takes away from the great research he does.

This is important journalism, simply listening to immigrants who live on the unglamorous side of London: tenement labourers, litter-pickers, betting shop regulars, wannabe gangsters, low level officials, prostitutes, cornershop clerks, agency carers. It's about poverty, segregation, white flight, boredom, pessimism. This, too, is London.