Ian Nairn

Praise for Nairn's London

A masterpiece ... Nairn was a poet ... Nairn's London belongs to no genre save its own, it is of a school of one ... There is barely a page which does not contain some startling turn of phrase

Jonathan Meades

Once you discover him, which in my case was through my dad's copy of Nairn's London, you want to read everything he's written ... He was a literary romantic, with a poetic sensibility

Andrew M. Brown, Daily Telegraph

He taught us how to look

Deyan Sudjic

A masterpiece ... Nairn was a poet ... Nairn's London belongs to no genre save its own, it is of a school of one ... There is barely a page which does not contain some startling turn of phrase

Jonathan Meades

Once you discover him, which in my case was through my dad's copy of Nairn's London, you want to read everything he's written ... He was a literary romantic, with a poetic sensibility

Andrew M. Brown, Daily Telegraph

He taught us how to look

Deyan Sudjic

A masterpiece ... Nairn was a poet ... Nairn's London belongs to no genre save its own, it is of a school of one ... There is barely a page which does not contain some startling turn of phrase

Jonathan Meades

Once you discover him, which in my case was through my dad's copy of Nairn's London, you want to read everything he's written ... He was a literary romantic, with a poetic sensibility

Andrew M. Brown, Daily Telegraph

He taught us how to look

Deyan Sudjic