London (Hardback)

Patrick Keiller's imaginative and highly original film London (1994) documents a journey through the capital undertaken by the unseen 'researcher' Robinson and his similarly unseen companion, the narrator (voiced by Paul Scofield).

The film maps the city's architecture and landscape through layers of historical and literary anecdotes, offbeat humour and scathing contempoarary commentary. The result is an ideosyncratic journal of the social and political currents at work in the city in 1992, the year of John Major's re-election, the renewed IRA campaign and the beginnings of crisis in the monarchy.

This new companion book combines beautifully reproduced stills from the film with original script and an introduction by Keiller giving insight into the creative process behind the writing and shooting of London and its locations.