<p><b><i>TELEGRAPH </i>BOOKS OF THE YEAR and <i>OBSERVER </i>BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2014</b><br><i><br>''This book is a record of what has moved me between Uxbridge and Dagenham. My hope is that it moves you, too.''</i><br><br><i>Nairn''s London</i> 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.</p>