# Nairn's London

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- Book: [Nairn's London](https://www.bookquiver.com/ian-nairn/nairns-london) ([Nairn's London.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/ian-nairn/nairns-london.md))
- Authors: [Ian Nairn](https://www.bookquiver.com/ian-nairn)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4139-615-6
- Pages: 368
- Published: 2014-11-06
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

TELEGRAPH BOOKS OF THE YEAR and OBSERVER BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2014 'This book is a record of what has moved me between Uxbridge and Dagenham. My hope is that it moves you, too.' Nairn's London is an idiosyncratic, poetic and intensely subjective meditation on a city and its buildings. Including railway stations, synagogues, abandoned gasworks, dock cranes, suburban gardens, East End markets, Hawksmoor churches, a Gothic cinema and twenty-seven different pubs, it is a portrait of the soul of a place, from a writer of genius.