Robert Elms: London Made Us [2020] paperback CHAZ THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZE AND

THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZE AND THE GORDON BURN PRIZE

which radiates out from the little Pyrenees village to encompass the whole of Western civilisation

and a dark secret that lies waiting in the mysterious labyrinth beneath the city streets

much-loved and honourable Queen

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Robert Elms: London Made Us [2020] paperback CHAZ THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZE AND'London is a giant kaleidoscope, which is forever turning. Take your eye off it for more than a moment and you're lost.' Robert Elms has seen his beloved city change beyond all imagining. London in his lifetime has morphed from a piratical, bomb scarred playground, to a swish cosmopolitan metropolis. Motorways driven through lost communities, accents changing, skyscrapers appearing. Yet still it remains to him the greatest place on earth. Elms takes