Charting the city’s literary past and present, this book is a fascinating portrait of a vibrant, cultural capital as seen and recorded by writers through the centuries.

Escalator is Michael Gardiner’s stunning fiction debut. Sparsely written and beautifully observed, these stories resist cliché and overstatement, and refuse to judge their subjects, presenting a compelling glimpse under the skin of an enigmatic country.

A startingly original tragicomedy based around a fictional Tibeto-Jewish refugee community in London.