Search Results for ‘London’, ‘Travel Writing & Other Literature’ - 32 matches found

Mrs P's Journey

This is the story of Phyllis Pearsall, the woman who mapped London's A-Z and founded the Geographer's Map Company. Mapmaking was traditionally a man's world and she took it by storm by creating a map...

The Bus We Loved

In this affectionate history, Travis Elborough tells the story of the Routemaster's invention, rise and decline, of the people who worked on it, and of the enthusiasts who were mad about it. Slowly...

The Magic Toyshop

Melanie ventures in the midnight garden wearing her mother's wedding dress; having closed herself out of the house, she climbs the apple tree in front of her window in the black of the moon, naked, in...

Tunnel Visions

Christopher Ross, philosopher and traveller, decides to cease his journeyings and literally go underground. Seeking an antidote to incurable restlessness he chose to work for a year as a Station Assistant...

Cross River Traffic

Cross River Traffic tells the history of the London's current bridges (and their predecessors) - why and how they were built as well as incidents that have occurred on them, from ghost stories to terrorist...

Derelict London

“Derelict London” lists 100 of the capital’s most interesting, curious & eye-catching derelict buildings, from the deservedly discarded tower blocks to the scandalously neglected architectural gems...

Hawksmoor

London in the eighteenth century is a city of extremes: squalor and superstition vie with elegance and enlightenment as the capital's brilliant architect Nicholas Dyer is commissioned to build several...

London - The Biography

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Much of Peter Ackroyd's work has been concerned with the life and past of London but here, as a culmination, is his definitive account of the city.
For him it is a living organism, with...

London's Dead

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Ed Glinert’s “London’s Dead” unearths some of the capital's most gruesome and intriguing stories; from famous and infamous people to unsung heroes and victims, well-known resting places...

More London Peculiars

Peter Ashley, writer and photographer, returns with a second volume uncovering London’s past and revealing the old ways that make the city the most exciting capital anywhere. The occupations he finds...

The London Compendium

The streets of London resonate with secret stories, from East End lore to Cold War espionage, from tales of riots, rakes, brothers, anarchy and grisly murders, to Rolling Stones gigs, gangland drinking...

The Ultimate London Sticker Book

Create your own picture book of London using these high-quality colour stickers of photographs of London.

White Teeth

White Teeth is a funny, generous, big-hearted novel on a scrambled, heterogeneous sprawl of mixed-race and immigrant family life in 20th-century gritty London.
It follows the roots and the lives of...

Down and Out in Paris and London

George Orwell’s vivid memoir of his time among the desperately poor and destitute in London and Paris is a moving tour of the underworld of society.
“You have talked so often of going to the dogs - and...

London Fragments - A Literary Expedition

“London Fragments” is one of those rare books that inspire you to revisit places you probably didn’t realise you were visiting; it will show you parts of London in completely new lights.
On ten strolls...

142 The Strand - A Radical Address in Victorian London

142 Strand was the home of the brilliant and unconventional young publisher John Chapman. All the daring and avant-garde writers and thinkers of Victorian London gathered here, among them Thomas Carlyle...

I Never Knew That About London

Travelling through the villages and districts that make up arguably the capital of the world, Christopher Winn’s “I Never Knew That About London” takes us on a captivating journey around London to unearth...

Lights Out For The Territory

In “Lights Out for the Territory” Iain Sinclair paints for the reader a daring, provocative, enlightening, disturbing and utterly unique picture of modern urban life; in the process he reveals the dark...

See Inside: London

“See Inside London” is a fantastic flap book that takes children on a journey through London from ancient times to today, letting them learn about the capital’s colourful history in an interactive way...

The Making of Modern London

The four volumes of “The Making of Modern London”, hailed when first published as innovative and riveting histories of the capital, are now combined and updated into one volume. Combining living memory...