 | Spectacular Vernacular: London's 100 Most Extraordinary Buildings by David Long
Buy new: £11.49 / Used from: £7.85 So you thought you knew London? Informed, entertaining, generously illustrated; a born storyteller who has clearly spent years crawling around the streets looking for the bits the other books miss
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 | The London Encyclopaedia (3rd Edition) by Christopher Hibbert
Buy new: £29.04 / Used from: £18.00 Still my 'Desert Island Discs' book, after more than 25 years.
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 | Tunnels, Towers and Temples: London's 100 Strangest Places by David Long
Buy new: £11.49 / Used from: £10.49 Hilarious but similarly enlightening sequel to Spectacular Vernacular, and very much more of the same. Strange places, and the stories behind them.
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 | The London Rich: The Creation of a Great City from 1666 to the Present by Peter Thorold
Buy used from: £3.03 How London developed, as seen through the lifestyles and homes of the very rich
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 | Chambers London Gazetteer by Russ Willey
Buy new: £17.50 / Used from: £4.64 The best gazetteer yet, covering everywhere you'd expect and more importantly about a thousand other places you've probably never heard of
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 | Lights Out for the Territory: 9 Excursions in the Secret History of London by Iain Sinclair
Buy used from: £0.40 London's unauthorised biography, by a man with a wild and original mind
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 | Dockland by S. K. Naib
Buy used from: £4.81 Fantastic hands-on guide to docklands past and present; the essential guide for anyone who goes strolling about out there
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 | Guide To The Architecture Of London by Edward Jones
Buy used from: £27.21 The best pocket guide on the subject, but five years on needs updating
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 | London: Sight Unseen: A Personal View of London by Gwyn Headley
Buy used from: £0.07 The author knows London well, and clearly loves its hidden corners
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 | London Under London: A Subterranean Guide by Richard Trench
Buy used from: £18.23 Fascinating poke around down below: tunnels, trains, bunkers and bowels
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 | Private Palaces: Life in the Great London Houses by Christopher Simon Sykes
Buy used from: £7.18 A colourful history of the rise of the great town houses, and their eventual fate
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 | Making the Metropolis: Creators of Victoria's London by Stephen Halliday
Buy used from: £1.45 The creation of Victorian London, and the men who made it happen
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| City at Risk: A Close Look at London's Streets by Simon Jenkins
Buy used from: £0.37 Part guide, part call-to-arms, and 30-odd years on an epitaph for the city the developers strive hard to destroy
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 | Number Ten Downing Street: The Story of a House by Christopher Jones
Buy used from: £0.01 The story of what goes on behind the most famous door in the world
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| The Londoner's Almanac: A Book of London Lists by Russell Ash
Buy new: £2.95 / Used from: £0.01 A dated but fascinating trivia round-up
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| The City (A Quartet/Visual Arts Book) by Sandy MacLachlan
Buy used from: £0.01 A colourful glimpse into the sometimes secretive world of the City
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 | The Little Book of London by David Long
Buy new: £5.61 / Used from: £3.00 The best loo-book on London, strange but compelling and a great Xmas gift: 10,000 ridiculous things everyone ought to know
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| Village London: the story of Greater London, part I: West and North : West and North Vol 1 by Edward Walford
Buy used from: £2.13 The first of an excellent four-volume reprint of this detailed 1883 citywide history
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 | St James's Square: People, Houses, Happenings by Denys Forrest
Buy new: £17.58 / Used from: £8.00 The West End's best, described building by building, who built it, who lived there and who owns it now
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| London as it Might Have Been by Felix Barker
Buy used from: £41.50 Exactly what the title says it is: a look at all the great schemes which (mostly sadly) were never completed
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