Robert Elms is a broadcaster and writer, well-loved for his
eponymous radio show on BBC Radio London. Elms started out as a
journalist, writing for The Face and NME. He is a Londoner through
and through, growing up in West London and living in the city for
most of his life.
The Robert Elms Show is a celebration of every aspect of the
tumultuous city. He interviews Londoners - famous and non-famous -
and every week looks at all sides of the city, be that
architecture, language, music, clothes and more.
Elms is the author of two previous works of non-fiction, The Way We
Wore: A Life in Threads and Spain: A Portrait After the General,
and a novel, In Search of the Crack. He lives in London with his
wife and children.
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A love letter to the capital . . . Part memoir, part cultural
history, it sees him embarking on a voyage through the London of
his youth and that of his forebears while assessing the city of
today . . . He offers warm and often vivid snapshots of the capital
of the '60s and '70s
* * Guardian * *
[Robert Elms'] observations are fresh, incisive and sometimes
revelatory . . . His love of his city shines from every page
* * Observer * *
London Made Us is a marvellously detailed and wonderfully evocative
memoir of London trembling on the border of extinction. Our tears
and dreams are made of this
*PETER ACKROYD*
This great city of ours has been truly blessed with some notable
social and historical chroniclers . . . Robert Elms is a worthy
addition in my humble opinion. This book will quite literally give
the reader, whether London-born or not, the most fascinating
in-depth history lesson of my beloved city (warts an' all) to date.
The reading of this book should be made a compulsory addition to
the curriculum of every state and private school in the capital
*NORMAN JAY MBE*
Robert Elms's bright, sparky, self-aware homage to his home . . .
Elms writes as he speaks . . . His voice surfs on waves of
sentimental passion and it, too, conjures up a vanishing world
* * Times Literary Supplement * *
This is a freewheeling book that revels in the tales it tells - and
it tells plenty . . . A delight
* * Evening Standard * *
A celebration of [London's] utterly vital past, and a stinging
critique of present pseudo-posh . . . Elms is good at taking a
little piece of our hearts . . . But he gives, too. His stories are
funny and memorable
* * Spectator * *
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