A book as sturdy and wonderful as the houses it describes.
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A new guide to the south London river.
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50 great views of London.
A compendium of London Quotes, from Tacitus to Amy Winehouse.
Exploring the Olympic Borough of Newham.
Dine in the dark, in a fridge and 98 other odd places.
Madness, politics, and the shaping of Bedlam.
Coming to London with kids? You'll be wanting these.
From MacDonald Gill to Stephen Walter.
North London and beyond, as you've never seen it before.
Does exactly what it says in the title.
Yet another book about the Tube, but this one's brilliant.
A history of the pools of Hampstead Heath.
Tales of Hackney from many angles.
Six London streets, dissected.
Slicing up the capital, one Tube station at a time.
Shootings, stranglings, stabbings, poisonings...light bed-time reading.
The story of the East End in the 20th Century, told by those who were there.
Found: Lost London.
Why is Pimlico called Pimlico, and a thousand other such answers.
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