 | Brewer's Dictionary of London Phrase and Fable by Russ Willey
Buy new: £15.00 / Used from: £12.02 The legends, lore, locals, localities and lingo of London (compiled by the author of this list)
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 | The London Encyclopaedia (3rd Edition) by Christopher Hibbert
Buy new: £29.04 / Used from: £14.99 The third edition of this heavyweight work, published in 2008
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 | Tunnels, Towers and Temples: London's 100 Strangest Places by David Long
Buy new: £11.49 / Used from: £10.50 A follow-up to Mr Long's bestselling Spectacular Vernacular, this one explores more of London's most distinctive structures
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 | London: The Biography by Peter Ackroyd
Buy new: £9.56 / Used from: £6.45 Parts of this might belong in a fiction list, but it's indispensable either way
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 | Shaping London: The Patterns and Forms That Make the Metropolis by Sir Terry Farrell
Buy new: £22.59 / Used from: £19.91 Time Out magazine said: the best London book since Peter Ackroyds London: The Biography, it may even be the best book of the decade.
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 | Hackney, That Rose-Red Empire: A Confidential Report by Iain Sinclair
Buy new: £13.26 / Used from: £9.95 Iain Sinclair isn't always easy to read but he loves London like no one else; here he discourses at length on his home patch
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 | London Gazetteer by Russ Willey
Buy new: £14.24 / Used from: £2.00 Potted histories of every district and locality in London, including dozens that even lifelong Londoners won't know
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 | A Dictionary of London Place-Names (Oxford Paperback Reference) by A.D. Mills
Buy used from: £73.16 More than just Saxon landowners although there are a lot of them
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 | The Times History of London (Mapping History S.)
Buy used from: £24.99 Previously marketed as a historical atlas, this has been repackaged as an illustrated history
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 | The Secret History of Georgian London: How the Wages of Sin Shaped the Capital by Dan Cruickshank
Buy new: £14.96 / Used from: £13.45 A new bestseller by the ebullient architectural historian
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 | London: East v. 5: East Vol 5 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by B Cherry
Buy new: £20.73 / Used from: £21.99 The most recently updated of the six volumes comprising an exhaustive study of London's architecture
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 | The London Underground: A Diagramatic History by Douglas Rose
Buy new: £9.05 Who needs a heavy history tome? In a single sheet this tells you (almost) everything you need to know about the development of London's undergound network
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 | London Suburbs
Buy used from: £22.24 Beautifully illustrated, thoroughly researched study of the parts that tourists miss, but sadly out of print now
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 | Subterranean City: Beneath the Streets of London by Antony Clayton
Buy new: £12.73 / Used from: £9.99 Heavy on (black and white) pictures, with oversized type to try and pad out the text between, but well-researched and readable
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 | The City of London: Club No More, 1945-2000 v. 4 by David Kynaston
Buy new: £13.50 / Used from: £11.84 Final part of David Kynaston's in-depth history of the City
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 | The Fields Beneath by Gillian Tindall
Buy used from: £10.89 Un-updated reissue of a 25 year-old book but still essential reading if you're interested in the growth of any part of London, not just Kentish Town
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 | The Little Book of the London Underground by David Long
Buy new: £6.29 / Used from: £4.92 Recently published successor to The Little Book of London, this time going underground
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 | London: A Social History by Roy Porter
Buy new: £9.59 / Used from: £6.96 Enlightening study by the late Professor Porter
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 | Leadville: A Biography of the A40 by Edward Platt
Buy new: £5.14 / Used from: £0.01 The Western Avenue: you've driven it, now you'll know it
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 | Lost London 1870 - 1945 by Philip Davies
I like the look of this one but I don't yet possess it; it's in my wish list if anyone wants to buy it for me ;)
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 | Eel Pie Island by Dan Van der Vat
Buy new: £8.47 / Used from: £8.04 The story of 'the island where the sixties began'. The 1960s, that is. Another one on my wish list.
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 | London Calling: A Countercultural History of London Since 1945 by Barry Miles
Buy new: £17.50 ... and another! (coming in March 2010) From the look of it, my first thought was 'I wish I'd written this'.
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