In a Year of a London Cabbie

On a spring morning in London, cabbie 42629 sips his coffee as cherry blossom falls. It is 9.40a.m. - time to make for Euston Station for the first pick-up of the day.

And so begins a charming true story of a year in the life in the life of a London cabbie told through the snippets of conversations with those travelling in the back of his cab. All human life is here: the loved, the lonely, the lucky, the unlucky, the old, the young, the happy and the sad.

Told through their own words and with the author's remarkable photographs, this is the most original and insightful book you'll read all year.