London (England) -- In literature

Crammed with stories, anecdotes, biographies and literary references, this work covers the history of black English writing and tells the story of the black and Asian people who have told the story of black and Asian London over the last 30 years of the 20th century.

Dickens' London is a thing of legend. Hesperus Press presents a selection of little-known excerpts, essays and letters, which collectively showcase Victorian London in all its seedy, opulent, oppressive, liberating, tumultuous glory.