Author Craig Taylor presents new book, Londoners: The Days and Nights of London Now

Craig Taylor comes to Greenlight with a number of contributors to present his new book, Londoners: The Days and Nights of London Now – As Told by Those Who Love It, Hate It, Live It, Left It, and Long For It. 

London—the real city, not the place visited by thousands upon thousands of tourists—is a lively, exciting, and confounding metropolis that defies easy characterization. Its six hundred square miles are home to 7.5 million people, each of whom has a story to tell. In his fresh, often surprising, narrative portrait, Londoners, Craig Taylor follows in the footsteps of oral historians such as Studs Terkel, painting an epic-scaled composite canvas of the great city through the words of its inhabitants on the eve of the 2012 Olympic Games.

Taylor, a writer, playwright, and editor, spent five years interviewing a vast array of London denizens, turning 950,000 words of raw material into a compulsively readable 120,000-word narrative featuring the observations and experiences of ninety disparate souls who together embody some essential truths about modern London.  Craig Taylor and his fellow contributors will discuss how London has shaped their lives, for better or for worse.  

For anyone who loves London or loves to hate it, this event is for expats and Anglophiles alike.