Underground: Tales for London
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Underground: Tales for London
This collection of short stories distills the sweat and tears of the daily commute, along with the occasional magic of a Tube journey: where lives intersect and overlap, small kindnesses are exchanged, flirtatious eyes are caught, and journeys sometimes take commuters much further than they expected...
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Number Five by Joe Mungo Reed
One of the wonderful secrets of the London Underground is that the trains and tunnels of the Waterloo & City line are often used in films. In this sto...
Northern - Kat Gordon
Northern Line is set during the Second World War. Grace, who works in the box office at a London theatre, finds herself caught at Hampstead tube stati...
She Deserves It - Louisa Young
This episode is a piece of memoir, in which bestselling author Louisa strings moments from her life like beads along the pink ribbon of the Hammersmit...
Victoria - Janice Pariat
A beautiful, magical story about one woman’s commute from Brixton to Highbury along the Victoria Line each day, to her job as an assistant in an artis...
Blackfriars - Matthew Plampin
This is a story based on real events. In January 1862, Frederick Leyland, director of the National Telephone Company and one of the wealthiest men in...
Circle Line - Joanna Cannon
Margaret, the recently widowed narrator of this story, spots her husband Cyril, on the Circle Line, one week after the funeral. It turns out that the...
My Beautiful Millennial - Tamsin Grey
My Beautiful Millennial is a story about a lonely yet predatory man and a vulnerable young woman who is trying to end their acquaintance. Trekking out...
Jubilee Line – Layla Alammar
In June 2007, a Kuwaiti tourist rides the Jubilee line, reflecting upon a great betrayal of his teenage daughter, Dahlia. He remembers the stories he...
London Etiquette - Katy Mahmood
Set on 18th November 1987, this short story features one of the most tragic moments in the history of the Tube. Bakerloo opens at Kilburn station and...
Worm on a hook - Tyler Keevil
The second episode of 'Underground: Tales for London' is a funny, wince-inducing family caper along the central line. A careless father walks his todd...
The Piccadilly Predicament - Lionel Shriver
Lionel Shriver, author of We Need to Talk About Kevin and The Mandibles, is the first author to feature in our new series, Tales for London. Her story...