Selvon’s “The Lonely Londoners” introduces us to a world that merges non-fiction and fiction together. We are welcomed to “one grim winter evening, ” adopting a fairy-tale like approach however, immediately, we are transported back to reality by the interruption of the “number 46 bus at the corner of Chepstow Road and Westbourne Grove. ” The author continuously intertwines human experience and with inspired narrative to structure his novel, besides the dreamy opening there is a sense of reminiscing, the struggle of the black man and British tolerance, and certainly Selvon’s distinctive style of writing. The novelist takes us on a journey which contains the truths of the experiences of the black individual in a social environment which was not