Date: 20 August 2009
The author walks around London following the path of the M25. You get to see what's at the edges of the city - Waltham Abbey, Government research institutions, disused asylums, exclusive housing, Martian death rays, industrial estates, Carfax, shopping malls. A series of local histories connected by their distance from the centre and by the geography of the motorway. Great, dense writing about a London you seldom hear of.
MM