Mother London
Author: Michael Moorcock
Three hospital outpatients all find that they hear voices – the voices of London’s past. As they explore the city of their present day, they also explore its recent past and its forgotten people. Through the lives of those on the fringe of society, we learn what it is like – and what it has always been like – to live in the great, sprawling, polyphonic, multicoloured capit….Read More
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