Cover -- Dedication -- Copyright -- Contents -- THE MAN ON THE STAIRS: INTRODUCTION BY IAIN SINCLAIR -- EDITOR'S FOREWORD BY ALLAN KAUSCH -- Scratching a Living -- A Child's Christmas in the Blitz -- LONDON -- Heart and Soul of the City -- A Place of Perpetual Rehearsal and Audition -- Building the New Jerusalem -- City of Wonderful Night -- London Peculiar -- Introduction to Gerald Kersh's Fowlers End -- A Child of Her Times -- Mysteries of London -- Benglish for Beginners -- Cockney in Translation -- OTHER PLACES -- Diary: 13th October 2001 -- Diary: 30th August 2003 -- Diary: 7th January 2006 -- Diary: 26th October 2007 -- Diary: 12th April 2008 -- Diary: 4th October 2008 -- Diary: 28th March 2009 -- Diary: 31st October 2009 -- Diary: 15th May 2010 -- A Review of Another Fool in the Balkans: In the Footsteps of Rebecca West by Tony White -- A Construction Site of the Mind -- ABSENT FRIENDS -- The Patsy -- Jack's Unforgettable Christmas -- When the Political Gets Too Personal -- Andrea Dworkin: Memorial -- JG Ballard Introduction -- Time Made Concrete -- The Voice -- The Atrocity Exhibition -- JG Ballard: In Memoriam -- Introduction to The Secret of Sinharat by Leigh Brackett -- James Cawthorn: 1928-2008 -- Fascination with Mortality: The Late Thomas M Disch -- Tom Disch Tribute -- A Constant Curiosity -- Introduction to Expletives Deleted by Angela Carter -- Ted Carnell -- A Review of No Laughing Matter by Angus Wilson -- Mal Dean -- The Ego Endures -- MUSIC -- Adding to the Legend -- Phil Ochs -- The Deep Fix -- Death by Hero Worship -- Living with Music: A Playlist -- Signs of the Times -- Rewriting the Blues -- POLITICS -- To Kill a King -- Before Armageddon -- A Million Betrayals -- INTRODUCTIONS AND REVIEWS -- The Cosmic Satirist -- Dark Continents, Dying Planets -- A Fiercer Hen.

An Introduction to The Babylonian Trilogy by Sébastien Doubinsky -- Like a Fox -- Button-Holed by Erudition -- Cricket by Moonlight -- Introduction to The Aerodrome by Rex Warner -- Les Livres Dimanches -- Echoes of Peake -- Breaking Free -- The Time of The Time Machine -- Ubu C'est Moi? -- What to Buy for the Grown-Up Boy -- Yesterday's Tomorrow -- A Review of Mythago Wood by Robert Holdstock -- North Pole Ghetto -- Wagner and Wodehouse, Together at Last -- Homage to Cornucopia -- Forever Dying, Forever Alive -- Introduction to Lud Heat and Suicide Bridge by Iain Sinclair -- Norton Goes to the Seaside -- How to Poach Magpie Eggs -- The Triumph of Time -- Conan: American Phenomenon -- Learning to Be a Jew -- Introduction to The Hooligan by Rudolf Nassauer -- When Worlds Collide -- Kit Carson Rides Again -- The Undertaker and the Actress -- The Spaces in Between -- Bites at the Red Apple -- The Water Maze -- Sexton Blake, Detective -- A Review of The Manual of Detection by Jedediah Berry -- Paraxis Introduction -- Frances Bret Harte -- AFTERWORD BY MICHAEL MOORCOCK -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR.