All the devils are here

David Seabrook's debut is a strange, wandering tour of the towns of Thanet and Medway on the Kent coast. Rather than offering a conventional guide, he records the shabby, struggling streets and town centres, where jobless young men, asylum seekers and shady figures are a common sight. Woven through these observations are literary and historical references, which, in his telling, feel closer to unsettling nightmares than to the cheerful promotion of a place to visitors.