Category: London

  • The London Cookbook

    Jenny Linford, £14.99 Food writer Jenny Linford combines her own recipes with those of other food-loving Londoners -delicatessan owners, market stall owners, chefs and restaurateurs – in this celebration of London’s food culture.

  • Brewer’s Dictionary of London Phrase and Fable

    Russ Willey, £15.99 The essential London reference book you did not know you needed; a heady, witty and surprising  mixture of the people , places, events, myths, anecdotes and slang.

  • London Encyclopeadia

    Ben Weinreb, £30 The most comprehensive book on London ever published, revised and updated with over 6000 entries and 500 drawings, prints and photographs covering all that is relevant to the city’s culture, economy, government and history.  The definitive London reference work.

  • 50 Things to Spot in London

      Usborne, £5.99 A pack of pocket-sized cards to help recognise and learn all about 50 of London’s famous landmarks.  Each card has a detailed illustration, with information, facts and statistics on reverse.

  • Lost London 1870-1945

    Special Price: £19.99 A spectacular collection of more than 500 of the best images from the former London County Council archive of photographs, held by English Heritage for 25 years, but by no means a nostalgic lament for the city.

  • I Never Knew that about the River Thames

    Christopher Winn, £9.99 Southend pier is the longest pleasure pier in the world Christopher Winn, author of a whole host of I Never Knew That About… titles turns his attention this time to the Thames – all of it, not just the bit in the middle – in another fascinating and thorough excursion through the…