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Two dozen contemporary writers, from Cathi Unsworth to Courttia Newland to Rachel Lichtenstein, reflect on some of the novelists and the novels that have helped define the modern city, from George Gissing to Zadie Smith, Hangover Square to Brick Lane. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt is a book about East End boys and West End girls, bed-sit land and dockland, the homeless and the homesick, immigrants and emigrants. All human life is here – high-minded Hampstead and boozy Fitzrovia, the Jewish East End, intellectual Bloomsbury and Chinese Limehouse, Black London, Asian London, Irish London, Gay London...\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAndrew Whitehead\u003c\/strong\u003e is the editor of BBC World Service News and an editor of History Workshop Journal. 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