A surreal view of London's hidden waterways. Since the mid 19th century, most of the tributaries of the River Thames have been buried beneath concrete and brick. Tim Bradford invites you to take a walk with him along the routes of these forgotten rivers. Join him on a flight of imagination back to a time when London was green meadows and rolling hills, dotted with babbling brooks infested with pigs' intestines, dead dogs and floating corpses. Yet this is more than a historical view of London. For it is London seen through the disarmingly left of centre world view of Tim Bradford, a man deeply in love with this capital, who sees just as much fascination and culture in a modern-day group of Albanian Patrick Swayze lookalike ladyboys of Haringay as he does in the historical derivation of the area's name. The journey is interspersed with the author's philosophy on such life and death matters as jazz, football, Dickens and jellied eels and some trivial concerns such as capitalism, politics, death and dreams.