Night Haunts Paperback by Sukhdev Sandhu

Product Details

• Publisher: Verso (2010-11-22)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 144 pages
• ISBN-13: 9781844676552
• Item Weight: 161.6 grams
• Dimensions: 19.81 x 12.95 x 1.19 cm

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.

About the Author

Sukhdev Sandhu is the author of, among other books, London Calling: How Black and Asian Writers Imagined a City, I’ll Get My Coat, and Night Haunts. 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.