Christopher Fowler - Disturbia

Once I referred to London as a slumbering giant, but now the giants are gone and there are only people; people with the ability to redefine the power of this mighty city. Change, of course, is not absolute. Some old ways remain. Two thousand years of dreams live on in the shadows around us. It will take a clever man indeed to unite those ancient dreamscapes with our hopes for the future. To return Prometheus and Dionysus, Solomon and Boadicea, to return the pagan glory of the planets to our streets, to reforge our links with day and night, summer and winter, to bring back the sunlight of Helios and the moonglow of Diana into London lives. The dead hand of Christianity ultimately led us into darkness. Perhaps someone will be ruthless enough to lead us back out of it, and into the light.

Christopher Fowleris the director of The Creative Partnership, a film promotion company based in Soho, and is the author of the novels Roofworld, Rune, Red Bride, Darkest Day, Spanky, Psychoville, Disturbia and Soho Black and of the short story collections City Jitters, The Bureau of Lost Souls, Sharper Knives, Flesh Wounds and Personal Demons.