All the Tiny Moments Blazing

From Richmond to Rainham, Cockfosters to Croydon, this sweeping literary tour of London's boroughs describes how writers, since the seventeenth century, have responded to and reimagined London's suburbs. Illuminating a galaxy of authors, from Samuel Johnson to Italo Svavo and Angela Carter, it introduces us to the great suburban novels, such as Hanif Kureishi's The Buddha of Suburbia and Zadie Smith's NW. It also reveals the lesser-known short stories, diaries, poems, local guides, travelogues, memoirs and biographies, which together show how these communities have long been brilliantly imagined.