Author, editor, and academic Matthew Beaumont shares his immense passion for literature, fictional anecdotes, and critical theories as a Senior Lecturer in the most prestigious universities such as UCL. Bursting with learning and pulsing with life, Matthew’s survey of writers from Chaucer to Dickens explores the city’s seamier side. Follow his steps through the literary streets of nocturnal London, and nigh walking suddenly becomes a place where bodies and the uncanny in an intriguing and dangerous manner.