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Cover

Title Page

Dedication

AUTUMN

1. A Bloody Big River Runs Through It

2. Special-Brew River Visions (No Boating, No Swimming, No Fishing, No Cycling)

London Stories 1: The Dogpeople

WINTER

3. Football, the Masons and the Military-Industrial Complex

London Stories 2: A Young Person’s Guide to House Prices

4. From Eel to Eternity: William Morris and the Saxon-Viking Duopoly

London Stories 3: Going to the Dogs

5. Spa Wars

London Stories 4: The Secret Policeman’s Bar

6. Invisible Streams

London Stories 5: Triumph of the Wilf

SPRING

7. The Pot and the Pendulum

London Stories 6: Catching Muggers, Starsky-and-Hutch Style

8. Can You Feel the Force?

London Stories 7: Our Man in a Panama Hat

9. Danish Punk Explosion Dream

London Stories 8: Suspicious Mind

10. Big Sky Over Norton Folgate

London Stories 9: Hidden Art Soundscapes in the Aura of Things

11. River of Punk

London Stories 10: The Secret Life of the Market Trader

12. Fred the Cat and the River of the Dead

SUMMER

13. Acton Baby!

London Stories 11: How to Fuck Your Knees Before You’re Fifty

14. The Suburban River Goddess at the Brent Cross Shopping Centre

London Stories 12: Swedish DIY Fascism

15. The Unbearable Shiteness of Being (in South London)

London Stories 13: 30 Love in the Time of Henmania

16b. Sorry to Keep You

17. The Tim Team

18. Doing the Lambeth Walk

London Stories 14: Welcome to Shakespeare Country – Britain’s Heritage Industry

AUTUMN

19. Bridge Over the River Peck

London Stories 15: A Night Out at the Ministry of Sound

20. The Black Wicked Witch Knife and Fork in Old Ed’s Dinertown

London Stories 16: An Alternative Global Financial System Written on the Back of a Beermat

22. Up Shit Creek

London Stories 17: Dome Time

23. The Tao of Essex

London Stories 18: The Eighties Were Shit But Free Jazz Pool Was Great

24. Smoke on the Water

25. Black Sewer, Crimson Cloud, Silver Fountain

Appendix

Flow rate Chart

What is London?

London Weather

Some Top London Buskers

Bullshit Detector Detector

Etymologists

Further reading

Credits

Pubs that appear in the text

Index

Acknowledgements

About the Author

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Other Works

Copyright

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