 | Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
Buy used from: £1.50 Where do people who fall through the cracks in London end up? London Below, a strangely familiar but very different version of the capital. Darkly comic and very surreal.
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 | Walking Haunted London: 25 Original Walks Exploring London's Ghostly Past by Richard Jones
Buy used from: £0.40 I don't believe a word of it, but it's a very entertaning potted history of Londons 'haunted' places :)
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 | Subterranean City: Beneath the Streets of London by Antony Clayton
Buy new: £11.99 / Used from: £6.62 Ever wondered what is under your feet? Details of all kinds of secret and not so secret places underground in London
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 | London: The Biography by Peter Ackroyd
Buy new: £9.56 / Used from: £4.89 If you're worried this is another dry history book, don't be. It really does read like a biography, stuffed full of anecdotes about the city
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 | London's Disused Underground Stations by J.E. Connor
Buy new: £18.42 / Used from: £12.99 Details of a huge number of abandoned underground stations within the city. Lots of gorgeous old (and new) photographs too
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| The Tain by China Mieville
Buy used from: £85.99 Post apocalyptic London. And mirror people. Intrigued?
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 | Do Not Pass Go: From the Old Kent Road to Mayfair by Tim Moore
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £0.01 Funny, and hugely readable account of the origins of Monopoly board place-names
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 | The London Companion (Companions Series)
Buy new: £6.04 / Used from: £0.01 The equivalent of a Schott's for London, essential and fascinating trivia :)
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 | The Great Stink of London: Sir Joseph Bazalgette and the Cleansing of the Victorian Metropolis by Stephen Halliday
Buy new: £5.94 / Used from: £2.99 A bit of an odd choice this one, but it's absolutely fascinating. If you ever wondered how the massive engineering project for the capital came about, this is the book you need :)
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 | The Groundwater Diaries: Trials, Tributaries and Tall Stories from Beneath the Streets of London by Tim Bradford
Buy new: £8.09 / Used from: £0.01 Difficult one to describe, imagine having the history of London's rivers explained to you by a random drunk guy you met in the pub. no? ummm...
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 | Underground London: Travels Beneath the City Streets by Stephen Smith
Buy new: £6.96 / Used from: £0.01 There's some really interesting stuff in here, if you can get past the author's sometimes impenetrable prose!
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 | The Devil You Know: A Felix Castor Novel by Mike Carey
Buy new: £5.59 / Used from: £0.81 London with a supernatural twist - very, very good
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