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The City laid bare
JOHN GREEN is impressed by a photography book that candidly exposes the nerve centre of British capitalism
JULIA TOPPIN recommends Patti Smith’s eloquent memoir that wrestles with the beauty and sorrow of a lifetime
MARJORIE MAYO welcomes an account of family life after Oscar Wilde, a cathartic exercise, written by his grandson
KEN COCKBURN guides us through a survey of Chekov’s early short fiction, and the groundwork it laid for his later masterpieces
ANDY HEDGECOCK revels in a hugely enjoyable but deadly serious examination of the 1930s, that is an indictment of our own era
The bard distills our hellish times into fiery words
London’s Square Mile — a secret city
Photographs by Polly Braden, text by David Kynaston
(Hoxton Mini Press, 2019 £17.95)
In his Introduction to this collection of photographs by Polly Braden, the historian David Kynaston says laconically: “The modern City has become a self-perpetuating, absurdly over-rewarded island, too much cut off from the rest of Britain.”
The photographer Braden has spent years observing and photographing this alien environment and bastion of high finance with its denizens.
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