History
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The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
Hallie Rubenhold
Read more ▸ Order ▸Polly, Annie, Elizabeth, Catherine and Mary-Jane are famous for the same thing, though they never...
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Walls
David Frye
Read more ▸ Order ▸For thousands of years, humans have built walls and assaulted them, admired walls and reviled...
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Writers’ London: A Guide to Literary People and Places
Carrie Kania & Alan Oliver
Read more ▸ Order ▸“When one is tired of London, one is tired of life.” – Samuel Johnson
London has...
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London Peculiars: A Guide to the City’s Offbeat Places
Peter Ashley
Read more ▸ Order ▸A peculiar can be defined as something that ‘has eccentric or individual variations to the...
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An Opinionated Guide To London Architecture
Hoxton Mini Press
Read more ▸ Order ▸This is a short, opinionated guide to the most exciting, arresting buildings in the capital....
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Cruickshank’s London
Dan Cruickshank
Read more ▸ Order ▸London. City of ancient churches and bustling markets, palatial townhouses and modest terraces, two millennia...
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The Man in the Red Coat
Julian Barnes
Read more ▸ Order ▸The Man Booker Prize-winning author of ‘The Sense of an Ending’ takes us on a...
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Viktor Pivovarov. The Agent in Love
Viktor Pivovarov
Read more ▸ Order ▸‘The Agent in Love’ is more than an autobiography. In telling the story of his...
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Trees of Life
Max Adams
Read more ▸ Order ▸A captivatingly informative and visually beautiful survey of the tree species – from all over...
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The Tulip
Anna Pavord
Read more ▸ Order ▸A revised and updated edition of the internationally bestselling classic Anna Pavord’s now classic, internationally...
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Travel and Drama in Shakespeare’s Time
Jean-Pierre Maquerlot & Michele Willems
Read more ▸ Order ▸This book explores interconnections between voyage narratives and travel plays in a period of intense...
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Berezina
Sylvain Tesson
Read more ▸ Order ▸October 1812,
Napoleon enters Moscow. The Russians have set fire to the city, soon it...