Night Haunts: A Journey Through the London Night

by SukhdevSandhu (Author), Sandhu (Author), Sukhdev Sandhu (Author)

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2010
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Traditional depictions of London at night have imagined a lawless orgy of depravity and pestilence. But is Britain's capital after dark now as bland and unthreatening as an evening in any new provincial town? Sukhdev Sandhu journeys across the city to find out whether the London night really has been rendered insipid by street lighting and CCTV. Night Haunts seeks to reclaim the mystery and romance of the city-to revitalize the great myth of London for a new century.

Synopsis

Traditional depictions of London at night have imagined a lawless orgy of depravity and pestilence. But is Britain's capital after dark now as bland and unthreatening as an evening in any new provincial town? Sukhdev Sandhu journeys across the city to find out whether the London night really has been rendered insipid by street lighting and CCTV. Night Haunts seeks to reclaim the mystery and romance of the city-to revitalize the great myth of London for a new century.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 160
Publisher: Verso
Published: 22 Nov 2010
ISBN 10: 1844676552
ISBN 13: 9781844676552

Media Reviews

I would add Sandhu's work to the likes of Lights Out for the Territory as offering some of the greatest insights we have into contemporary London.A Michael Moorcock, Daily Telegraph

Author Bio

SUKHDEV SANDHU is the author of, among other books, London Calling: How Black and Asian Writers Imagined a City. He lives in New York and London, and writes for the London Review of Books, Modern Painters and the TLS. He is the award-winning chief film critic of the Daily Telegraph and Associate Professor of English literature at New York University.