Salaam Brick Lane
A Year in the New East End
$31.99
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
8 June 2006
Summary
After ten years living abroad, Tarquin Hall wanted to return to his native London. Lured by his nostalgia for a leafy suburban childhood spent in south-west London, he returned with his Indian-born, American fiancé in tow. But, priced out of the housing market, they found themselves living not in a townhouse, oozing Victorian charm, but in a squalid attic above a Bangladeshi sweatshop on London’s Brick Lane. A grimy skylight provided the only window on their new world: a filthy, noisy street …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780719565564 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0719565561 |
| Author: | Tarquin Hall |
| Publisher: | John Murray Press |
| Imprint: | John Murray Publishers Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 8 June 2006 |
| Weight: | 205g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 132mm x 20mm |
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Critics Review
‘Charming, brilliant, affectionate and quietly impassioned … it manages to be balanced, humane and life-affirming. I hope it sells out faster than cases of Chalky’s “Coat de Roen”’.
Well-written without mawkish pieties. - Saga Magazine
‘Charming, brilliant, affectionate and quietly impassioned … it manages to be balanced, humane and life-affirming. I hope it sells out faster than cases of Chalky’s “Coat de Roen”’. - GuardianTarquin Hall is right at the heart of what he writes about … Hall’s new friends spring brilliantly to life off the page … it’s hard to imagine a more moving or more telling record of lives on the edge - Caroline Gascoigne, Sunday TimesAmused and amusing, this is a refreshing addition to the accounts being offered of the area. - Stratford RecorderForthright and funny - Daily TelegraphFascinating and funny - Canterbury, Herne Bay, Whitstable & Faversham FocuPowerful - Kent MessengerI was absolutely riveted. It’s funny, enlightening and very moving … I’m recommending it to all my friends just because it’s such a good read. - Kate Fox, author of Watching the EnglishAbout The Author
Tarquin Hall
Tarquin Hall became an under-age journalist at nineteen and spent the next ten years working in Africa, America, Asia and the Middle East. He is the author of Mercenaries, Missionaries and Misfits, an account of his early adventures; and To the Elephant Graveyard: A True Story of the Hunt for a Man-killing Elephant, a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week. He is married to the BBC World Service presenter Anu Anand. They live in East London.
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