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Mercier, a French journalist, travelled to London in 1780 and began writing his account of his experiences there. (He seems to have felt about London much as we tend to about Paris!). First ... read more

Neighbours and Rivals: An Eighteenth-Century Journey Between Paris and ...

Louis-Sebastian Mercier

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A vade mecum for the prurient? From the author of Behind Closed Doors: The Secret Life of London Private Members' Clubs (2022).

London Clubland: A Companion for the Curious

Seth Alexander Thévoz

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A love affair against the backdrop of London in the 1990s.

The City Changes Its Face

Eimear McBride

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You get the sense that the interviews for this oral history – drawn from several decades of conversations with Tracey Emin, Damien Hirst, Steve McQueen, Liam Gallagher, Sarah Lucas, Kate M... read more

Faster Than A Cannonball: 1995 and All That

Dylan Jones

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Catalogue for the wonderful exhibition at the Courtauld.

Monet and London: Views of the Thames

Frances Fowle

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A superb collection of b/w photos, from the team that produced London Hidden Interiors and others.

London Lost Interiors

Steven Brindle

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A languorous pub crawl, illustrated by the inimitable Ardizzone, first published in 1949. Chapters include 'The Regulars', 'The Jug-and-Bottle Bar', 'Barmaids Old and New', 'After Hours'. Wi... read more

Back to the Local

Maurice Gorham

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A riso- and letterpress pamphlet on the commons of South London: a belt of green space which used to stretch almost uninterrupted from Bostall Heath in the south-east to Putney and Barnes in... read more

Bostall Heath to Plumstead Common: A South London Landscape History ...

John Gray

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A thousand years of Cadogan/Chelsea history, well illustrated; with support from family archives.

Cadogan: The Lives, Loves & Legacy of a Chelsea Family ...

Tamsin Perrett

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On his death in 2014, George Lucas left his diaries - spanning 60 years and pertaining not to his career as a civil servant but to his after-hours pursuits - to their editor.

The Diaries of Mr Lucas: Notes from a Lost Gay Life ...

Hugo Greenhalgh

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The embodiment of mens sana in corpore sano rowed across the Channel, swam the Niagara basin twice and became an MP. He and his wife were intimate with the 'Souls'.

Titan of the Thames: The Life of Lord Desborough

Sandy Nairne

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Showcases famous and classic homes, converted industrial buildings, and historic mansions.

London Interiors

Emma J. Page

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Private houses and industrial conversions showcasing C21st modern interiors.

House London

Ellie Stathaki

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Copiously illustrated.

London: The Great Transformation 1860-1920

Philip Davies

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One of 1000 limited edition copies, this numbered 284. Extensively researched, with the gallery of prints drawn up by Harriet O'Keeffe, with text by Jonathan Ditchburn. The book itself is in... read more

Images of Chelsea

Elizabeth Longford

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Their rise, decline and surprising resurgence; includes women's and working-class as well as men's and aristocratic. Anecdotes galore.

Behind Closed Doors: The Secret Life of London Private Members’ ...

Seth Alexander Thévoz

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Announced two years ago as a Royal Collection Trust book, this wonderful survey is coming at last from Yale.

St James’s Palace: From Leper Hospital to Royal Court ...

Rufus Bird

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Brief reflections on Covid and confinement.

House Arrest: Pandemic Diaries

Alan Bennett

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Esoteric London

Roger Dean

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London Silenced: Reflections of a City in Lockdown

Clare Tollemache

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An outstanding evocation of living in London in the late '70s and early '80s, with its curious mix of modernity and grit, analogue but on the cusp of the digital age.

Souvenir

Michael Bracewell

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AS guides us through a period of vast public investment in housing, schools and hospitals while also giving an exemplary portrait of London's teeming political and social scene and those - l... read more

London 1870-1914: A City at its Zenith

Andrew Saint

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An addition to the wonderful Everyman Poetry series.

Poems of London

Christopher Reid

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There are more mainline stations in London than in any other city in the world... Illustrated.

London’s Great Railway Stations

Oliver Green

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The product of many years' research, this is an amazing book that reconstructs the eleven 'Strand Palaces' which both gave rise to the distinctly English style that emerged in country houses... read more

London’s ‘Golden Mile’ – The Great Houses of t ...

Manolo Guerci

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Another jaunty rom-com in which our heroine unexpectedly bumps into her first love...

Did You Miss Me?

Sophia Money-Coutts

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Parallel possible worlds spool from a German rocket strike in London in 1944: five children are killed but, in a feat of authorial engineering, are given futures nevertheless. A dazzling cel... read more

Light Perpetual

Francis Spufford

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London has twelve vast railway termini. What was involved in their construction (between 1836 and 1900), and what did they do to London?

Cathedrals of Steam: How London’s Great Stations Were Built R ...

Christian Wolmar

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A dive through other dives: architecture as the key to Soho's history, with its waves of immigrants - Huguenots, East European Jews, Chinese. Has an elegiac quality in the face of the dispir... read more

Soho: A Street Guide to Soho’s History, Architecture and People ...

Dan Cruickshank

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How Putin and his entourage of KGB men seized power in Russia, controlling the economy through a fiefdom of oligarchs, and have used that wealth to extend their own influence. This hardba... read more

Putin’s People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and then Took on th ...

Catherine Belton

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A portrait of the group composed of Barbara Hepworth and Ben Nicholson, Henry Moore, Paul Nash, Herbert Read, Gropius, Mondrian and others: how their lives crossed and influenced one another... read more

Circles and Squares: The Lives and Art of the Hampstead Modernists ...

Caroline Maclean

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Mecklenberg Square in Bloomsbury with Virginia Woolf, H.D., Dorothy L Sayers, classicist Jane Harrison and economic historian Eileen Power.

Square Haunting: Five Women, Freedom and London Between the Wars ...

Francesca Wade

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