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City Secrets: London is the third book in the intriguing City Secrets series, published by the Little Bookroom, an American sister company of Granta. The idea behind the books was to develop an anecdotal guide by London's writers, artists, historians and designers and to reveal favourite hidden corners as well as giving new insights on well-known places.
Glenfiddich "Restaurant Writer of the Year" Charles Campion has eaten his way around London to compile the first Rough Guide to 320 restaurants and pubs around the city. They are arranged by area, so if you happen to be in the Brixton- Camberwell area you could try Helter Skelter's char-grilled calamari with watercress and lime and chilli marinade (£4.80) or if you are in the mood for posh nosh you could try a £50 carte at Chelsea's Gordon Ramsay. There are a total of 47 areas and only the best restaurants and pubs are included. There's no bias in regard to style as Italian, Thai, Chinese and French restaurants are rated equally highly. A map is included at the start of each section showing exactly where the restaurants are situated. Each restaurant has a price guide which shows the minimum amount per person you are likely to spend "assuming you are not a non-tipping, non-drinking skinflint". Each review shows the prices of various dishes and gives the restaurant's
opening hours, address, telephone number, and the credit cards accepted.
In the introduction, Campion lists his favourite restaurants, which are:
Chez Bruce in Wandsworth (British), Fung Shing in Chinatown (Chinese),
The Mirabelle in Mafair (French), Café Spice Namaste in the City
(Indian), Zafferano in Knightsbridge (Italian), Singapore Garden in Swiss
Cottage (Thai), Rasa in Stoke Newington (Vegetarian), Café España
in Soho (Budget), Defune in Marylebone (Extavagance), and lunch at Mirabelle
(Bargain Extravagance). One of the best things about the book however,
is that it's tiny and fit's easily into the smallest briefcase or glove
compartment. This will ensure that you always have it with you when find
yourself in Southall and suddenly feel hungry.
This is a guide to the authentic London pub. From river pubs to theatre pubs, Victorian gin palaces to medieval coaching houses, the pubs in the book have been chosen for their architecture and interiors, for having a role in local social history or having once been frequented by the famous, infamous, and in some cases, ghostly. The book includes details on hundreds of historical pubs in each area. There are practical tips and information on all the pubs featured, such as travel, opening hours, food and beer selections. There are maps of all the main areas and listings of the other attractions nearby every pub. This book is also a practical guide to these historic pubs, offering all of the essential information opening hours, how to get there, what kind of beers are offered, and whether or not food is served.
This second volume of the "Time Out Book of London Walks" features over 40 walks, with detailed instructions, maps and recommendations on where to eat and drink along the way. The guide explores more of the capital with a further 25 original walks from resident novelists, artists, comedians and historians. Parks and palaces, churches and temples, cemeteries and canals, museums and galleries are featured throughout, and the walks range in length from one to 16 miles. The Time Out Book of London Walks includes:
Like all Harden's guides, this book has had a complete, more contemporary make-over. Unchanged, though, is the thorough listing of all places and events in London that cost nothing to experience. Features include: brief reviews of all amusements for free in the capital, five pages of maps, and a comprehensive index by area, including information on whether the attraction is indoor or outdoor.
Time Out’s ‘London for Children’. The second edition of the hugely popular guide. A new addition
to the Time Out family, the London for Children guide brings Time
Out’s expert knowledge to making the most out of London with
the kids. In true Time Out style this is the most comprehensive
guide of its kind. The guide is aimed at everyone with, or caring for children and covers stimulating, imaginative and interesting things for parents and children to experience in the best city in the world.
Edward Rutherfurd belongs to the James Michener school: he writes big, sprawling history-by- the-pound. His novel, London, stretches two millennia all the way from Roman times to the present. The author places his vignettes at the most dramatic moments of that city's history, leaping from Caesar's invasion to the Norman Conquest to the Great Fire to (of course) the Blitz, with many stops in between. London is ambitious, and students of English history will eat it up. The author doesn't skimp on historical detail, and that's a signal pleasure of the book. Ultimately, though, the structure of the novel determines the lion's share of its success. Rutherfurd is a good storyteller and each vignette makes for a good story; however, he has given himself the inevitable task of beginning what amounts to a new book every 40 pages or so. Just as one begins to warm to the characters, they are hurried off the stage. You can't read London without a scorecard—but that's part of the fun.
Getmapping.com came up with a beautifully simple idea in 1998: photograph the whole of the UK from the air to create a kind of modern Doomsday Book. Then they and HarperCollins realised that the London part of the survey would give a unique view of one of the world's most famous cities, and so this book was born. It really is unbelievably simple, and of interest to any lover of London who also enjoys maps and photographs. Getmapping.com flew a plane at 5,500 feet taking photos automatically, then digitised the photos so they could be colour-corrected and adjusted to allow for variations in light, weather, contours and the plane's flight. The result is a homogenous set of photographs of the whole city, with a conventional street atlas stuck on the back. Every street in London is indexed to both the photographic and the cartographic atlas, so you should be able to find any place you want quickly and easily. A word about the scale of the photos, particularly about what the potential reader can expect to see clearly: in order to make the size of the book manageable, the scale increases as you move out from the centre. There are 74 pages of central London (Regent's Park to the South Bank, and Earls Court to Whitechapel) at 1:3000, 112 of inner London (Richmond to the Isle of Dogs, Highgate to Dulwich) at 1:6000, 96 of outer London at 1:12000, and 40 pages of cartography covering the whole of London at 1: 24000. In central London the roofs of individual houses can be picked out easily; in inner London they are still discernible, though not so clearly; by the time you get to outer London it's more a question of finding a street. Buy other books and maps on London from Amazon.co.uk!Or buy a London guide or map with Amazon.com
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