Sketches by BozBy: Charles Dickens Illustrator: George Cruikshank 'Sets out the London of the 1830s before you, streets, people, pleasures, low life, prisons' Claire Tomalin Charles Dickens's first published book, Sketches by Boz is a funny and touching collection of observation, fancy and fiction showing the London he knew in all its complexity its streets, theatres, inns, pawnshops, law courts, prisons and, of course, the river Thames. His descriptions of everyday