Heather Reyes Boeken

London is the world's most happening, most exciting and most diverse city. And no one reflects this brilliant complexity better than London's writers, whether home-grown, adopted or simply visiting."City-Lit London" offers us the best writing on this amazing city with over sixty dazzling writers. Join them as...Will Self gets inside the head of a London cabby; Jan Morris flies into Heathrow; Monica Ali smells the curry on Brick Lane; Alan Bennett gives us a ride in the Queen's carriage; Xiaolu Guo enjoys a greasy spoon cafe in Hackney; Beryl Bainbridge attends Dr Johnson's funeral in Westminster Abbey; Sam Sevlon recalls the boat train arriving from Trinidad; Virginia Woolf goes shopping in Oxford Street; Barbara Cartland takes us to a West End ball; and, Dostoyevsky strolls down the Haymarket.Introduced by Peter WattsOther titles in the series: Berlin, Paris, Amsterdam, Dublin, Istanbul, Venice, St Petersburg, New York

Experience the haunting and exciting city of Berlin as never before, in the company of its most fascinating writers. Join them asChristopher Isherwood takes us to the cabaretDavid Bowie cycles through BerlinAnna Funder remembers StasilandIan McEwan overhears talk in a Berlin barChristabel Beilenberg wouldn't live anywhere elseDavid Hare contemplates a wartime memorialMarlene Dietrich receives a graveside hommageChloe Aridjis shows us around townJohn Simpson sees the Wall come down... and much, much more.Introduced by Rory MacleanOther titles in the series: Paris, London, Dublin, Venice, New York, Amsterdam, Istanbul, St Petersburg

It's Thatcher's Britain, and single mother Georgina Hardiman sits at her old grey typewriter in North London writing soft porn. But her young daughter has her own ideas about what she wants from life ...