This is London: Life and Death in the World City Audiobook (Free)

Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2016, formerly referred to as the Samuel Johnson Prize.

This is actually the new London: an immigrant city. More than one-third of Londoners were born overseas, with fifty percent arriving because the millennium. It has absolutely transformed the capital, for better as well as for worse.

Ben Judah can be an acclaimed international correspondent, but here he turns his reporter’s gaze on home, immersing himself in the hidden world of London’s immigrants to reveal the city in the eyes of its beggars, about This is London: Life and Death in the Globe City bankers, coppers, gangsters, carers and witch-doctors. In the backrooms of its mosques, Tube tunnels and nightclubs towards the frontlines of its streets, Judah has supped with oligarchs and spent nights sleeping rough, done building sites and talked business with prostitutes; he’s heard tales of heartbreaking failing, but also witnessed extraordinary acts of compassion.

This is London explodes fossilized myths and will be offering a fresh, exciting portrait of what it’s prefer to live, work, fall in love, raise children, get old and die in London now. Simultaneously close and epic, this is a compulsive and deeply sympathetic publication on this dizzying world city from one of our brightest fresh writers.