London Fictions Abdah Khal Michael Horovitz bringing thousands to

Michael Horovitz bringing thousands to hear “poetry of the underground”

The Last Storytellers

He teaches at Trinity College Dublin

Habib Selmi tells the engrossing tale of how he became a writer in a house of no books

In her poem ‘Bumbu Clat’

London Fictions Abdah Khal Michael Horovitz bringing thousands toLondon Fictions is a book about London, real and imagined. Two dozen contemporary writers, from Cathi Unsworth to Courttia Newland to Rachel Lichtenstein, reflect on some of the novelists and the novels that have helped define the modern city, from George Gissing to Zadie Smith, Hangover Square to Brick Lane. It is a book about East End boys and West End girls, bed sit land and dockland, the homeless and the homesick, immigrants and emigrants. All