Albion Park

A Novel by Daniel Peppé

After years of austerity, London is a city riven by inequality. Bathing in its newfound status as the pre-eminent destination for foreign wealth, the city has forgotten about those who can’t afford to keep up.

Albion Park follows the lives of a group of residents who live around a privately owned and managed park in a fictional part of North London. Thirty-five years ago, surrounded by squats and housing estates, no one with money or options wanted to live around Albion Park. Now outside of Zone 1, it is one of the most desirable addresses in London.

When a cash-strapped local council are forced to sell off their housing stock to developers, the lives of residents of the Bevan estate begin to unravel. Meanwhile, the wealthy homeowners living around Albion Park relish the prospect of the estate being demolished. Conflict is inevitable as the demands of developers and investors supersede those of a local community.

“I recommend that everyone should read this book as soon as possible ”
— All Books Great & Small
“A brilliant and scathing examination of modern London. Unflinching, probing and at times very funny”
— Brett Anderson
“With a cast of horrendously believable characters on both sides of the social and financial divide, Peppé writes with a fine rhythm, a wicked sense of humour and his dialogue crackles along.
With echoes of Tom Wolfe’s ‘Bonfire of the Vanities’, Peppé is a writer to watch.”
— Nigel Pegram
“Albion Park has the air of a more down to earth A Week in December, Sebastian Faulk’s
book about the same terrain. Or James Meek’s The Heart Broke In. But this book has
more convincing elements of geography and social history.”
— Jonathan McAloon (Telegraph, FT, ID, Spectator & TLS)

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