The notion that truth is stranger than fiction and that real life beats novels for tragic human interest is, I’d say, indisputable. But the trouble with real life is that it’s messy and sprawling; what it needs is a good editor.
Step forward Ben Judah whose latest compendium of human experience, This is Europe, surpasses his last, This is London. It is simply a succession of short, true human stories from people living in Europe.
