Publication: Night Haunts by Sukhdev Sandhu

Published by Verso
Hardback release: September 2007
Paperback release: November 2010

"A luminous series of sketches in Orwellian style, from cabbies and sewer flushers ('fat is the bane of their lives') to exorcists and Thames bargers ('Nobody knows we're here. Nobody'). This book is an atmospheric and witty companion, especially for those who, like Sandhu, spend the dark hours awake." (Christopher Hirst in The Independent, October 2010)

Sukhdev Sandhu journeys across London at night in twelve essays which see him prospecting with the people who drive its pulse, from the avian police to security guards, urban fox-hunters and exorcists. He wades through the sewers, hangs out with fugitive graffiti writers, and accompanies the nuns of Tyburn as they pray for the souls of Londoners.

This book, published by Artangel and Verso, features Midnight Pilgrims: The Nights of Tyburn a new chapter not included on the Night Haunts website, exploring the Tyburn Convent, a "Benedictine order that requires its sisters to wake up during darkness and kneel before God as part of a ceremony called the Night Adoration".