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London Under London: A Subterranean Guide

London Under London: A Subterranean Guide
  • Author(s): Ellis Hillman, Richard Trench
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction, Travelogue
  • Era(s): Various

The London we know and see is only the tip of the iceberg. Beneath the familiar surface lies an unknown city, a Hades of buried and forgotten rivers, sunken sewers, underground railways, pipes and passages, tubes and tunnels, crypts...

London’s No.1 Dog-Walking Agency

London’s No.1 Dog-Walking Agency
  • Author(s): Kate MacDougall
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Kate MacDougall always knew her heart wasn’t really in her job at Sotheby’s. All around her, her friends were finding their dream jobs and whooshing up career ladders, fulfilled and glowing with success, flush with easy credit. After yet...

London, Burning

London, Burning
  • Author(s): Anthony Quinn
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s

London, Burning is a novel about the end of the 1970s, and the end of an era. It concerns a nation divided against itself, a government trembling on the verge of collapse, a city fearful of what is to...

London, Can You Wait?

London, Can You Wait?
  • Author(s): Jacquelyn Middleton
  • Location(s): London, Dublin, Manchester, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Present Day

Alex loves Mark. Mark loves Alex. But is love enough? Since moving to London from the US, twenty-four-year-old Alex Sinclair seems to have it all: a coveted job writing for the theatre, supportive friends, and the man of her...

London: A Life in Maps

London: A Life in Maps
  • Author(s): Peter Whitfield
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Various

A city long shrouded in literary and historical mists—not to mention real ones—London seduces tourists and natives alike. From Big Ben to the grimy Victorian streets of Dickens novels on up to the sleek high-rises that dot the skyline...

Londonist Mapped

Londonist Mapped
  • Author(s): AA Publishing
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Londonist is about London and everything that happens in it – and now it’s mapped. The city at your fingertips, brought to life by an eclectic group of illustrators. Whether you’re looking for something new to do around Brick...

Look Closer

Look Closer
  • Author(s): Rachel Amphlett
  • Location(s): London, The Home Counties
  • Genre(s): Political, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Will Fletcher seems to have it all – perfect job, perfect life. Then in one act of extreme violence, his world is turned upside down A bungled assassination attempt on a London street uncovers a disturbing conspiracy fuelled by...

Look What You Made Me Do

Look What You Made Me Do
  • Author(s): John Lanchester
  • Location(s): London, North London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

What if the year’s most talked about TV show was all about your marriage? Kate, thirty years into her marriage, has a seemingly idyllic metropolitan, North London life. Phoebe, a young screenwriter, is the creator of the year’s hit...

Love Actually

Love Actually
  • Author(s): Richard Curtis
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): 2003

From the writer of Four Weddings and a Funeral, Notting Hill and Bridget Jones’s Diary comes the essential companion to the smash-hit movie, LOVE ACTUALLY. Set in contemporary London just before Christmas and weaving together a series of touchingand...

Love ad Lib

Love ad Lib
  • Author(s): Evie Alexander
  • Location(s): Somerset, Bath, Corsham, Corsham Court, London, The Cotswolds
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Fake it till you fall in love… Shy and reserved Lord Henry Foxbrooke is the reluctant heir to his eccentric father’s estate. His outrageous family want him back in Somerset and settling down, but he wants a stress-free life...

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