Robert Elms: London Made Us [2020] paperback CHAZ Her creativity and needlework skills

Her creativity and needlework skills quickly become invaluable and she settles in to life among the colourful troupe of actors

THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZE AND THE GORDON BURN PRIZE

An irresistible love story

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

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

Robert Elms: London Made Us [2020] paperback CHAZ Her creativity and needlework skills'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